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The contrarian addiction

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

The hypocrisy of most deficit discussions

…dealing with terrorists, piled on additional government bureaucracy and costs. If you cut revenues without finding appropriate government programs to cut, then you will increase government borrowing and increase government

The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead

…estimate by The Wall Street Journal, Sanders’ spending plans would cost $18 trillion over 10 years, increasing the federal government’s size by roughly a third. He would create a single-payer…

GINNI THOMAS v. CLARENCE THOMAS

…of the government’s authority to label information it has as a “state secret” and thus to prevent its disclosure in court. It will do so, though, only in a narrow…