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Anthony Gregory Lecture Now Online: “Civil Liberties Under Bush and Obama”

Posted in Events, Speakers, tagged , , , on December 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »

After many weeks of waiting, I am happy to announce that our club’s last lecture of the semester is finally online for your listening pleasure. Anthony Gregory, Research Editor at The Independent Institute, gave a talk to our club on November 16th entitled “Civil Liberties Under Bush and Obama.” It is a humorously educational lecture [...]

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Thanks For the Offer, Mr. President, But We Can Stimulate Ourselves

Posted in Economics, tagged , on September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The following is a guest submission by Andrew Glidden, originally published on The Daily Caller: As is typical of politicians generally, and Obama particularly, the response to continued U.S. economic anemia is yet another speech. On Thursday, President Obama, channeling the spirits of two long-deceased progressive presidents, combined Teddy Roosevelt’s bully pulpit with Woodrow Wilson’s [...]

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When “Raising the Roof” Goes Wrong

Posted in Articles, Current Events, Economics, tagged , , on June 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The following is an op-ed I wrote for The Daily Californian, UC Berkeley’s student newspaper, that was published on June 6th, 2011: For the past few months, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner has been warning Congress about the country’s imminent arrival at the $14.3 trillion national debt ceiling, casting a dark cloud over our [...]

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You Know What Really Grinds My Gears? Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

Posted in Current Events, tagged , on November 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Let me get this straight: 70% of the military are alright with gays serving. 78% of Americans favor repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. The President, as commander-in-chief of the military, has the constitutional authority to end the policy anytime via executive order. Previous presidents have exercised this executive privilege, such as Harry Truman when he desegregated the [...]

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Obama is (Enter Fear-Mongering Catchphrase Here)!

Posted in Current Events, tagged on September 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Green Party activist Matt Gonzalez had a thing or two to say about President Obama’s socialist allegations at last Saturday’s “Principles Over Politics” rally: This is not a socialist President who is engaging in bank bailouts. It’s not a socialist president who passes healthcare that makes you buy private medical insurance. It’s not a socialist president [...]

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Promises, Promises

Posted in Current Events, tagged , on August 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced that 50,000 of the 65,000 troops currently stationed in Iraq will be withdrawn by the fall of next year (conveniently just in time for election season). The President claimed that the end of operations will come “as promised and on schedule.” Unfortunately, I recall him making a radically different “promise” [...]

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