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It’s About the Jobs, Stupid: The Rising Tides Act of 2011

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The Rising Tides Act of 2011 will reduce the Corporate Income Tax Rate from 35% to 23%.  This is great news for the average business owner out here in America.  Of course, the left will scream, yell and denigrate this push to help our economy.  Screaming groups of people in...

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Ask An Expert: First Congress

Question: Where and when did the First Congress meet? How many days were they in session and what was their agenda? Answer: The First Congress was one of the longer ones — but then so was its agenda.  It drafted the Bill of Rights, it established the Departments of Treasury,...

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The Tea Party's Principled Stand

Liberty Central’s President, Gary Aldrich, has a featured op-ed today in the Daily Caller.   His article focuses on the financial catastrophe at hand, the fundamental problems with the proposed CR (which passed 87-13 yesterday, by the way), and the way in which the American people are standing up for principled...

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Take Action: The Good Old Days… 854 days & $4.5+ Trillion Ago…

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The Full Faith & Credit Act, introduced in the Senate (S163) by Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and in the House (HR 421) by Congressman Tom McClintock (R-CA), offers the Congress a way to  inoculate themselves  from the “World will come to an end if we don’t raise the debt limit!”...

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The Government Shuts Down?

UPDATE: Last week, the House proposed a short-term CR that would fund the government through March 18, 2011 and may reduce current spending by $4.1B.  You can see a link to the short-term CR here. It’s all the buzz.  The Republicans and their Draconian cuts will leave no other choice...

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Reining In The Regulators

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The world is looking and acting like it’s on fire.  The Middle East is awash with protests and violent outbursts.  Some in the state of Wisconsin are attempting to mirror this behavior – especially the night the Wisconsin Assembly voted to pass Governor Walker’s budget repair bill. You can check out the video...

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Cut Spending or Raise Taxes?

Following is an excerpt from Wally Hauck’s Letter to the Editor published in the Connecticut Post. My business partner used to say, “You can tell where people are by where they are.”  I can say this now about my State Senator, our new Governor Malloy, the unions (especially in Wisconsin) and...

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Wisconsin's Budget Battle

What is really at stake in Wisconsin?  When I listen to news reports about the protests in Madison, I hear that Governor Walker is trying to undercut and destroy unions by limiting collective-bargaining and their “hard-earned” benefits. But what’s really happening? Without the facts, Governor Walker seems like a ruthless...

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My Father’s Wisdom: George Washington as the Father of our Country

This piece was originally posted on June 18, 2010 in honor of Fathers’ Day and was written by Cassie, one of Liberty Central’s very talented summer interns.  We thought it fitting to reprint it on this Presidents’ Day.  We hope you enjoy it.  Thank you Cassie! “Knowledge,” Washington said in his State...

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Red Rover, Red Rover Send the Feds Right Over

As a kid, we loved to play Red Rover during recess.  The object of the game was to have two teams – with approximately 10 per team.  The teams would face each other about 30 feet apart.  Both teams would be holding hands with the 10 on their team. The game went like this: §  [...]

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