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Political Culture: America – Too Big To Fail?

Jon Cummings August 9, 2011 14

How did the Tea Party force a stupid deal, prove itself unfit to govern ... AND simultaneously send the economy over a cliff? Jon Cummings spots the jokers in the deck.

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Dw. Dunphy On… Absolute Double-Dip — We Are Going There

Dw. Dunphy March 8, 2011 6

In spite of what the financial pundits say, Popdose's Dw. Dunphy says double-dip recession is not only possible, but inevitable

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Political Culture: Absolutism Sucks! (Relatively Speaking)

Jon Cummings January 20, 2011 5

Conservatives now claim the Constitution as their own -- yet couldn't bring themselves to read it in its entirety on the House floor. Jon Cummings examines the flaws of Tea Party-brand strict constructionism

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Political Culture: The Not-So-Great Society

Jon Cummings August 5, 2010 4

Now is the summer of our discontent … arriving on the heels of a spring, winter, autumn and previous summer that roiled in similar fashion. Americans, it seems, have declared open season upon one

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Political Culture: Reasons to Be Hopeful (Or Not) on Tax Day

Jon Cummings April 15, 2010 20

Happy Tax Day! A special shout-out to those of you who are operating under the delusion that your taxes have gone up this year – a belief shared by a slim majority of Americans,

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Political Culture: How To Train Your Teafoxlican

Jon Cummings March 18, 2010 14

We’re supposedly just three days away from the final House votes on health care, and still nobody’s sure how it’s going to go. If you listen to Fox News, there’s no way Nancy Pelosi

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Political Culture: Those Condescending Elites!

Jon Cummings February 11, 2010 4

Just in time for last weekend’s National Tea Party convention – an event which will be remembered mostly for the way Sarah Palin had her devotees eating (and the rest of us reading) out

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Political Culture: Ayn Rand Takes a (Midas) Mulligan

Jon Cummings December 10, 2009 17

When I was a senior in college, instead of prepping for a career as a Rand-ian Master of the Universe with high-level courses in economics or engineering, I chose a pair of classes in

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Political Culture: A Liberal Reads Ayn Rand

Jon Cummings December 3, 2009 24

Objectivism is back, baby! Don’t take my word for it – just check out this cover of the libertarian monthly Reason, which offers up a freaky old Audrey Hepburn-meets-the-wicked-witch photo of the philosophy’s founding

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