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The Rewards and Pitfalls of Ideological Dissent

Source: Beat the Press, Nov 28 2012, 11:33am CST

At any given time, there will be a few people celebrated among partisans on each side in Washington because they have left their own tribe and come to the other side to assure them that their opponents are just as terrible as they ima ...

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Gadflies are Useful for a Political Party

Source: Washington Monthly  |   May 23 2013, 2:21pm CDT

May 23, 2013 2:33 PM The surprising thing is that Barro, the son of the prominent orthodox-conservative economist Robert Barro, is the one who has done it. The elder Barro has called the stimulus “the worst bill that has been put forward since the 19 ...

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House Republicans “Unified,” But For How Long?

Source: Taylor Marsh  |   May 23 2013, 1:26pm CDT

Writing at Buzzfeed, Kate Nocera notes that House Republicans are currently “unified,” but asks how long that will last. Speaker John Boehner has overseen one of the most bitter and divided conferences in recent memory. Conservativ ...

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Todd Akin, Virginia Style?

Source: The Rothenberg Political Report  |   May 23 2013, 1:05pm CDT

Until Saturday night, I had never heard of E.W. Jackson, a Harvard Law School graduate and minister who served three years in the Marine Corps and attended Harvard Divinity School. I’ve never met the man, bu ...

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Immigration Reform Will Boost The Economy, More Than 100 Conservative Economists Say

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 23 2013, 12:35pm CDT

Immigration reform is good for the economy, says pretty much everyone. More than 100 conservative economists signed a letter from the American Action Forum, a conservative think tank, arguing that immigration reform is good for the economy. The letter, w ...

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House gives “warm” welcome to conservative rabble-rouser

Source: Dallas Morning News - Blogs  |   May 23 2013, 12:25pm CDT

Much of the House tries not to utter Michael Quinn Sullivan’s name, as they believe – much like BeetleJuice – it gives him more power. Truth be told, the conservative grassroots activist has actually lost more battles than he has won this session, in ...

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Fresh Hell From the Rockies

Source: Washington Monthly  |   May 23 2013, 11:19am CDT

If May has been a rough month for Barack Obama, you could say the same for those intrepid voices calling for a “rebranding” of the Republican Party to make the GOP kinder and gentler and more appealing to the sig ...

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The Conservative Welfare State

Source: Reason  |   May 23 2013, 11:11am CDT

Conservative crank Ann Coulter has made a career out of bad manners, so it was no surprise when she slammed her libertarian hosts at the annual International Students for Liberty confab in February as “pussies.” That was almost a c ...

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7 hours ago

Calling conservatives’ bluff on immigration reform

Source: The Washington Post  |   May 23 2013, 10:36am CDT

A few weeks ago, the conservative Heritage Foundation warned that immigration reform could cost the United States trillions of dollars in extra costs and lost revenue. Their price tag of $6.3 trillion was an as ...

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'ConservoTax,' The First Tax Software For Republicans

Source: Video Cafe  |   May 23 2013, 10:30am CDT

Conan O'Brien very helpfully produced this ad for conservatives who feel terrorized by Obama's IRS. As the dude in the tricorner hat says: TEA PARTY GUY: "Filing your taxes can be a little scary, especially if you’re a God-fearing, gun-owni ...

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Conservative economists endorse immigration reform bill

Source: The Morning Call  |   May 23 2013, 9:18am CDT

The letter by the American Action Forum, to be released Thursday, is the latest volley from conservative economic thinkers, who have been divided on the immigration overhaul legislation making its way through the Senate. “Immigrati ...

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