#Paul Ryan

Mickey Edwards: Unlike Paul Ryan, Ronald Reagan wouldn’t endorse Donald Trump – Wisconsin State Journal

Trump is no longer the immature buffoon who captured the nomination with the support of roughly one in nine registered Republicans. Trump is now, because of Ryan, the anointed and endorsed national personification of the Republican Party. With his endorsement,

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Ryan in the Mirror

Ryan, his special friends, and those who inspired them portray themselves as the carriers of ideal Americanism against the (p)rogressive “cancer,” but the gleaming surface of their illimitable “missionary” ambition reveals them to be the cancerest of all.

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When Paul Ryan left me for another lover

The day after I published, Beck was on his radio show quoting extensively from the piece – though without naming me – and wondering whether Ryan might not turn out to be “the next John McCain,” which in Beck-world means a metastatizing tumor attacking America’s essence of purity. In short order, however, Paul Ryan had swept into action, eliminating the threat on his far right flank, and the rest is never having to say you’re sorry.

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Secrets of the Ancient Blogging Masters – The Day Trip

(kind of a sample post based on the “How To“) Amazon.com: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 (9780679744757): Benny Morris: Books Really, read this book.  Just finished the first world-scene-setting chapter that closes with the birth of

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Paul Rayn

Remarks of Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) – As Prepared for Delivery | Committee On The Budget Our nation is approaching a tipping point. We are at a moment, where if government’s growth is left unchecked and unchallenged, America’s best century

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Paul Ryan on Real Progressivism

Many people believe Democracy obsolete. They are wrong. Obsolete is the one thing Democracy can never be. R. Buckminster Fuller – “No More Secondhand God” In responding to Rep. Paul Ryan’s speech to the Oklahoma Council on Public Affairs on

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The Real Progressives

In a comment at my home blog, and in related comments at her own blog, J.E. Dyer has ably encapsulated the negative responses of numerous conservatives to my post on “The Point of Being Annoyed with Glenn Beck.” J.E. concedes

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