Eric Florack on January 18th, 2009

From the mailbag:

Okay.  Here’s what I think liberals are, and what I think liberals believe.

Liberals are politically left of center elitists, who want to create ever-growing big governments that only they control, to take care of the nation

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YetAnotherJohn on August 1st, 2008

One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. This article by Joel Kotkin presents the data showing the urban cores going more and more for the democrats since 1960. He points out the

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YetAnotherJohn on July 24th, 2008

There is an interesting poll out that confirms this is a center-right nation at least in terms of fiscal responsibility in government.

Conducted in late June, the poll surveyed 800 voters and had a margin of error of plus or

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2008

Billy makes a great point this morning:

I don’t know why people keep referring to what’s going on with energy as a “market” while it’s stepped on by government every mile of the way from the field to your tank,

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Eric Florack on March 23rd, 2008

Bob Lonsberry, today:

Like a fool, I went back and forth for most of three minutes, from the apple bin to the scale and to the apple bin again. I had two dollars and I wanted two apples and

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