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The Themistocles Letters: Let's Create a Transatlantic Free Trade Area

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In the spirit of the great Athenian statesman, raising awareness of the true threats to the safety and prosperity of our republic and promoting the necessary policies to get us through these difficult times. Monday, September 5, 2011. Let's Create a Transatlantic Free Trade Area. Subsidies to favored industries has been the largest economic bone of contention between the two sides in recent years, especially when it comes to the rival aerospace firms Boeing and Airbus. Creating a TAFTA would eliminate ta...

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The Whig: I Just Hope He Doesn't Start Talking About Precious Bodily Fluids

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I Just Hope He Doesn't Start Talking About Precious Bodily Fluids. The Hill: Santorum: US would lose its 'very essence' if Obama reelected. It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. Saturday, February 25, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). We Whigs are for economic and political freedom, thrift, self-help, and equality of opportunity. Our enemies are either the ...

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The Whig: A Penny For Space Exploration Is Worth It. We Shouldn't Leave Space Exploration To The Chinese.

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A Penny For Space Exploration Is Worth It. We Shouldn't Leave Space Exploration To The Chinese. A few excerpts from Foreign Affairs. The Case for Space: Why We Should Keep Reaching for the Stars. It's behind a pay wall, but you should be a subscriber, anyway. It's a great magazine.) A good article, which makes compelling arguments for our continued involvement in space exploration. A few salient points:. Surrounding space exploration and the retrenching. Advances, but cross-pollination involving a divers...

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The Whig: The Canary In The Coal Mine

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The Canary In The Coal Mine. Washington Post: Olympia Snowe: Why I’m leaving the Senate. The great challenge is to create a system that gives our elected officials reasons to look past their differences and find common ground if their initial party positions fail to garner sufficient support. In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good. That is not happening today and, frankly, I do not see it happening in the near future. I certainly don...

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The Whig: Time To Get Busy

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Time To Get Busy. Foreign Policy: Go Forth and Multiply. Want to stop the slide in U.S. dominance? Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Whig campaign is a crusade to save the liberty and the happiness of the people, and to rescue the Constitution from the hands of profligate men, under whose management it is sinking into decay. - Judge Jacob Bruner. On Being A Whig, Continued. Call To Expand Size Of Congress. On Being A Whig. Swiss Healthcare System Part III. Increase the S...

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The Themistocles Letters: Turn Off the Television

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In the spirit of the great Athenian statesman, raising awareness of the true threats to the safety and prosperity of our republic and promoting the necessary policies to get us through these difficult times. Monday, August 22, 2011. Turn Off the Television. Fifty years ago, Newton Minow, then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, famously described television as "a vast wasteland". What do we see when we look at the vast wasteland today? The time we spend watching television breaks down the ...

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The Themistocles Letters: Ten Steps On the Road to a Balanced Budget

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In the spirit of the great Athenian statesman, raising awareness of the true threats to the safety and prosperity of our republic and promoting the necessary policies to get us through these difficult times. Monday, August 15, 2011. Ten Steps On the Road to a Balanced Budget. To get us to the ultimate goal of a balanced budget, I have a few modest suggestions:. 1 Let the Bush tax cuts on those making $250,000 more a year expire. Truth be told, eliminating earmarks will not make much of a dent in the fede...

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The Themistocles Letters: May 2011

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In the spirit of the great Athenian statesman, raising awareness of the true threats to the safety and prosperity of our republic and promoting the necessary policies to get us through these difficult times. Monday, May 30, 2011. Pending Free Trade Agreements Should Be Approved Immediately. Currently, there are three FTAs sitting on the tables of the decision-makers in Washington: agreements with South Korea. Last year, the United States Chamber of Commerce released a detailed study. The expansion of fre...

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The Themistocles Letters: August 2011

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In the spirit of the great Athenian statesman, raising awareness of the true threats to the safety and prosperity of our republic and promoting the necessary policies to get us through these difficult times. Monday, August 29, 2011. Despite Fiscal Crisis, America Must Invest In ITER. As the policy-makers in Washington struggle to cut spending and bring the budget under control, funding for the American contribution to ITER must be one of the items considered absolutely off limits for cuts. Not only m...