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Richard Nixon’s Permanent Counter-Revolution

Instead of giving a “heterodox middle finger to the establishment,” let your message be: “long live the counter-revolution.” 

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We Can’t Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Hole

When it comes to budgeting, Congress has two problems.

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