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An old-fashioned election in Maine, thankfully

"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine."                                                 –Terry Goodkind, as quoted in Moving to Maine, 2007

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CNN gets caught in cheating scandal

Rush Limbaugh found just the right analogy for the CNN cheating scandal, where (now) former CNN analyst Donna Brazile fed "town hall" questions to Hillary Clinton. It's the quiz-show scandal of the 1950s, where Charles Van Doren was given the questions on the NBC game show

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The Greek fiscal crisis: Both caused and exacerbated by statism

In 2008, government spending consumed 50.9 percent of economic output in Greece according to OECD fiscal data. That same year, Greece's score from Economic Freedom of the World was 7.12 (on a 0-10 scale), which was rather poor for a supposedly developed country and only #60

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Spending money… to spend more money

"You must spend money," observed Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, "to make money." That constitutes sound advice for investors and business owners. In government, politicians effortlessly twist the proverb into: "You must spend taxpayer money to justify spending even more taxpayer money."

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Hillary Clinton: Sinner or saint?

Forget about Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. The most interesting and consequential contest of the presidential campaign — and of the next four or eight years, if Clinton prevails in the election — may just be the one between Crooked Hillary and Saint Hillary. Just in the past week, a Douglas Band

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Warned you then, warning you now

There is plenty of bad news about Obamacare. Premiums are set to skyrocket next year an average of 22 percent (a staggering 116 percent in Arizona). Of the 23 state co-ops that were originally set to operate, 16 have gone bankrupt, and the remaining seven are in dire financial straits.

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The boys fall into the gender gap

Reading is not for sissies, as the front page of the newspaper demonstrates every morning in the homestretch of a raucous presidential campaign. But there's a deeper problem, one that civility and good manners won't cure. The really bad news is that boys are falling into

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An honest question for all voting Americans

In 1996, "The Simpsons" did a "Treehouse of Horror" episode featuring Bill Clinton running against Bob Dole. Halfway through the episode, during a presidential debate, Homer Simpson reveals that both candidates are "hideous space reptiles," complete with dripping fangs, tentacles and one eye each: