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In a separate survey of Republican likely primary voters, Rob Simmons trails Ms. McMahon 47 – 30 percent, with 14 percent for Peter Schiff. This compares to a 52 – 25 percent McMahon lead in a July 16 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. Looking at McMahon and Simmons, Republican voters say: •...
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There is almost $2.4 trillion in mortgage debt for homes in negative equity. The total negative equity is $771 billion. There are 4.1 million homeowners with more than 50% negative equity (they owe 50%+ more than their homes are worth). This graph shows the percent of homeowners with mortgages in negative equity for 33...
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Keynesianism didn’t work for Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s, didn’t work for Japan in the 1990s, and didn’t work for Bush in 2008. Proponents of this approach have a childlike faith in the Keynesian model and its ability to generate very specific (albeit completely inaccurate) numbers. The fault line in American politics is...
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It is highly likely we are going to see a return to high inflation. #1: Because the government needs it to get out of the debt they have incurred. (A Billion $ A Day in Interest and climbing.) #2: Inflation is a natural economic outcome of creating money that has no basis in real...
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If the President’s Deficit Reduction Commission uses “baseline” or “current services” budgeting as a benchmark for determining spending “cuts” and tax increases, that’s a good sign that the crowd in Washington wants to pull a fast one on the American people. Baseline budgeting. This is the clever Washington practice of assuming that all previously...
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Here is a new flowchart prepared for the Joint Economic Committee showing the healthcare system under Obamacare. It’s not as if it was not complex enough as it was. A system that only a Government bureaucrat could love. Just think of all the lovely interactions with Government employees we get to have trying to...
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Press Release: Immediate Release Dubitsky Asks, “Where’s Daria Novak?” GOP Candidate Says Opponent is Ducking Debates, Voters Doug Dubitsky, Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s 2nd District, wants to know why Daria Novak is hiding. “She didn’t attend the televised debate moderated by Tom Monahan on NBC last week, and she has refused numerous...
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It’s impossible to view television commercials, listen to an interview with an entertainer, or read most political candidates’ mailings without getting the message that the shift toward “green” energy is underway. The PR barrage is enough to make you think that all new cars are about to be electric, wind turbines will soon permit...
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So much for transparency Dunstan Prial reports: Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act. The law, signed last week by President Obama,...
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From ATR.org In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.  They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011: (N.B. This version of the document contains even more tax hikes than the original version did) First Wave: Expiration of 2001...
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The Cato: The debate on extending the Bush tax cuts has begun. Those opposed to extension argue that the cuts would greatly increase the federal deficit. The first thing to note is that extending all the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts would lose the government about $216 billion a year in 2012 and rising...
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Previously we offered Brooklawn Strategies LLC the opportunity to explain their methodology and experience in polling. They took us up on it. On July 13th and 14th Brooklawn Strategies conducted a poll of likely Republican primary voters in the 2nd Congressional District for the Peckinpaugh for Congress campaign.  Calls were placed by Western Wats...
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Meet the candidates, before you vote in the primary! The Mansfield Republican Town committee is hosting a “Meet the Candidates” evening on Wednesday August 4, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Eagleville Fire House Hall on Route 32 in Mansfield. This will give anyone an opportunity to get to know the candidates who...
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Press Release July 26, 2010 Doug Dubitsky for Congress Immediate Release Dubitsky Questions Novak’s Endorsement Claim Doug Dubitsky, Republican candidate for Congress in Connecticut’s 2nd Congressional District said today that one of his GOP rivals for the seat is misusing former President Ronald Reagan’s name in an effort to mislead voters. In campaign literature,...
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Press Release: West Hartford, Conn., June 26, 2010 – Linda McMahon for Senate 2010 today announced that House Republican Leader Larry Cafero has given his support to Republican Senate Nominee Linda McMahon. “As a proud Connecticut Republican, I believe with all my heart that our state and our country are better served with a...
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