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The Truth About FDR, The New Deal, and Managed Economics

Cory Truax @ July 18, 2010 # 3 Comments

The narrative is an established and popular one. President Herbert Hoover was a deregulation-crazed proponent of laissez faire, Austrian School economics who saw the economy crashing around him, and because he subscribed to a hands-off theory of government, the economy came crashing down into the Great Depression. Then along came the economic knight in shining […]

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The Ten Most Significant Stories of 2009

Cory Truax @ December 14, 2009 # No Comment Yet

It’s been a big year in news. We inaugurated a new president, witnessed massive Tea Party protests, saw a Governor resign and another embroiled in a sex scandal. Throw in the death of an icon, off-year elections, and the escalation of a foreign war, and the Unites States has had a busy year. Below I’ll […]

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This is Why I Can’t Get a Job as a Journalist

Cody Fields @ April 23, 2009 # One Comment

Right wing extremist, racist, anarchist, neurologically challenged.
The government and media have called me all of those just in the last week. Both entities have fabricated lies about the policies I believe in order to marginalize me and the rest of the conservative movement.

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The Real Meaning Behind All The Tea Parties

Cory Truax @ April 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet

According to some estimates, there could be as many as two thousand grassroots tea parties nationwide over the next week. I have already spoken for one of the parties and I am scheduled to speak at another one later this week. But as I listen to the media coverage and read some […]

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New Cigarette Tax Attacks Business and Personal Responsibility

Cody Fields @ April 10, 2009 # 2 Comments

What’s a tax hike on a legal but demonized industry? It’s all in a day’s work in the Obama administration.
The federal cigarette tax, formerly at 39 cents, more than doubled last week to $1.01. The revenue generated is supposed to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program, but the logic is flawed, if existent at all.

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I’ll Explain it to You: The Tea Party Movement

Cory Truax @ April 10, 2009 # 2 Comments

I have been a supporter and participator in the Tea Party movement since its earliest days. The first weekend in March, when the first Tea Party protests took place, my hometown of Greenville, SC had what I have found to be the largest of that weekend with 2,000 patriotic protesters. Since then, cities like Cincinnati, […]

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I’ll Tan Your Fannie (Mae): AIG Takes the Brunt While Fannie and Freddie Slide

Cody Fields @ March 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet

In light of the Democrats seething with anger over AIG’s doling out of bonuses to top executives after receiving billions in bailout money, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) had finally admitted to writing the language in the bailout that provided the loophole for said bonuses. We may now know why in what could be called a […]

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