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The Telescope: The Myth of the Moderate House Democrat
July 20, 2010 | By Bob Beauprez

At the beginning of July, a study was released that analyzed the voting records of 82 incumbent House Democrats in competitive Congressional districts. The results were startling, even to this former Member of Congress.  

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The Telescope: The Arrogance of the Central Planners
June 15, 2010 | By Bob Beauprez

In many ways, America is like a giant public company.  It produces roughly a quarter of the world’s total economic output, and rewards its 300 million shareholders with a standard of living standard that is the envy of the planet. 

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Dodd-Frank’s stealth takeover of corporate America
July 20, 2010 | By Mark A. Calabria

Hidden in the 2,300 plus pages of the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill is a provision that could give special interests increasing control of the management of our nation’s publicly traded corporations.  Under the false pretense of increasing shareholder input, via the proxy mechanism, Section 971 of the bill gives the Securities and Exchange Commission the power to require publicly traded companies to fund the campaign of outside nominees for the board of directors.  While that nominee would have to be proposed by a shareholder, the intent of “proxy access” is to allow unions

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The Public Pension Time Bomb: Coming Soon to a State Near You

July 20, 2010 | By Troy Senik

In this age of fiscal sophistry, the language of public finance is riddled with economic alchemy.  The federal government moves $877 billion from Washington’s coffers to those of its most favored interest groups and calls it “stimulus”.

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Silent Raids a Start for Immigration Reform, but Who Will Finish?
July 20, 2010 | By Heather Bachman

In an attempt to save face regarding the illegal immigration issue, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency recently began discussing an avenue which they believe shows that they know how to cure the infectious problem.  “Silent Raids”, announced as an immense step in immigration reform, is an activity where Federal Enforcement Agents quietly audit employee records of companies for possible illegal immigrants on their payroll.

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Alaska and American Exceptionalism
July 20, 2010 | By William Moloney

Anchorage:  In every state of our great union there is to be found beauty of remarkable kind.  In Alaska, however the scale, the scope, the vastness of the place is unlike any other state.  Its 586,000 square miles are one fifth the size of the “Lower Forty-Eight”, larger than all but thirteen countries elsewhere in the world.

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Setting Great Depression Mythology Straight Part II: The Hoover Years
July 20, 2010 | By Brian Anderson

Note: Part I of this series appeared in the  June issue of A Line of Sight here. Part III will publish in the August issue.

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The Iran- Afghanistan Connection
July 20, 2010 | By Paul E. Vallely, MG US Army (Ret.), C...

Iran and Afghanistan have strategic and regional ties that have not changed in the last nine years. Ties and support to the Taliban and Al Qaeda Jihadis have strengthened. Osama Bin Laden, many of his family and hierarchy, transit continually between Pakistan and Iran. No one is living in any caves in the mountains of Afghanistan that you see continually reported.

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An Inadequate Response from BP In the Gulf
June 15, 2010 | By Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK)

Last week marked a sad milestone:  50 days since the explosion on British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon rig triggered the oil spill that is still gushing out of control.  Sadly, almost two months into the disaster, precisely zero progress has been made in stopping the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.      

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