Yearly Archives
2012
With economy tanking, GOP splitting over focus on social issues
“With the Republican presidential contest dragging on longer than they’d hoped, party officials are urging the remaining candidates to refocus their debate on the economy and to put aside arguments over divisive social issues that party leaders fear could undermine GOP efforts to beat President Obama in November,” The Washington Examiner reports today. And the […]
Read moreAre politicians trying to destroy the housing market?
Over at FoxNews.com, Libertarian National Campaign Committee Chairman Wayne Allyn Root exposes how Republican and Democrat politicians are destroying the dream of home ownership. Root writes, in part: The damning evidence is in on two fronts: Housing continues to collapse to unimaginable levels. — The latest numbers are in from December, showing that home prices […]
Read more2012 comes down to libertarian-leaning independents
Nick Gillespie, writing today in Reason magazine: According to Gallup and based on 20,000 interviews from 20 polls taken throughout 2011, “a record-high 40 percent of Americans identify as Independents.” To put that in perspective, consider that self-identified Democrats roll in at a historic low of 31 percent while just 27 percent of us are […]
Read moreAmericans concerned with debt racked up by Republicans, Democrats
• 73 percent of Americans are “very concerned” about the amount of U.S. debt held by other countries. • 81 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of conservatives, 65 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of liberals agree. • 57 percent overall are “very concerned” how the political situation in Iran will affect the U.S. economy. […]
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