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Reality is scarier than conspiracies

Barack Obama was born in a foreign nation as part of a genetic experiment, raised a Muslim and brainwashed by radicals. Think X-Men meets Malcolm X.

Socialism begets tyranny? Coincidence!

Today, the socialists have taught most Americans to expect lots of things — government schools, government fire and police protection — are and should be “free.”

Boondoggle averted?

A horrible recession is no time for reckless spending. It’s sound advice for common citizens and businesses, but especially wise for governments entrusted with our tax dollars.

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Extreme makeover

On Monday, President Barack Obama pitched his scheme for a government “reform” of American health care and medical insurance to the American Medical Association, continuing a public relations blitz designed to quickly push the pricey scheme through Congress.

Lobbying contracts

As a member of the Board of Regents, Steve Sisolak was used to being a lone voice of common sense and fiscal restraint. While his peers rushed to dump tax money by the truckload on a revolving door of already-overpaid higher education administrators, he always stopped to ask whether taxpayers and students were getting anything of comparable benefit in return. For his efforts, he routinely found himself on the wrong side of 11-2 and 12-1 votes.

Preserving the Preserve

The catalog sometimes seems as long as the number of government schemes which the suckers — um, taxpayers — are willing to entertain.

The Stimulus Fairy

Fiscal watchdog Tom Coburn, the Republican senator from Oklahoma, has for years been a consistent and principled thorn in the side of Democratic — and GOP — big spenders.

The Rhyolite plan

Like a rider kicking his dead horse in the desert — hoping against hope that he can get the overburdened beast to rise and carry him just a little further, as it always did before — so do those who believe big government could still solve our ills if only we weren’t so “greedy,” refuse to believe there’s any limit to the taxes and mandates they can load onto the backs of struggling citizens.

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