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What I want to know is: if there is nothing wrong with discussing "alternative paths to service" with Senate candidates, then why is Rod Blagojevich going to jail?



The irony of another White House election tampering case revealed on the eve of the former Illinois Governor’s corruption trial is too rich to let pass without comment.



Some will argue that the cases are not comparable; but others will see them as minor variations on the same theme. Blago offered a job in…

Your family makes $140,000. You pay your pool boy $24,000 but he spends $38,000. He is $130,000 in debt and he tells lenders you are good for it. Now do you get the Tea Party?



If you remember who works for whom and where the money comes from in the first place, it is pretty easy to see why people are hacked off. Add eight zeros to the pool boy’s numbers and you have the budget of the federal government.



The government works for us; the pool boy is not family. We…

The dividing line between compassion and tyranny has a name: it is called coercion. It is the border that encircles libertarian geography on the political map.



Few would argue with our bedrock libertarian principle: it is unjust to initiate force or fraud against another person. Don’t you agree?



And yet we force people to join unions, force people to pay arbitrary prices for goods, services, and labor, force people to purchase insurance, force people to fund…

The Civil Rights Act of 1964? Why do we have to reopen that debate because of something one guy didn’t say on a program no one watched?



And wasn’t the name of their website MoveOn? Whatever happened to that idea?



We are now in the fourth year of Democratic control in Congress, and they are still whining about GWB instead of doing the job we pay them for.



It has been thirty years since Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts were proposed, and I am still reading…

Arlen Specter lost, and Rand Paul won – that is not just big, it’s Joe Biden big.



You could not find two better poster-kids than Mr. Specter and Dr. Paul for what is wrong with this country and what might save it, respectively.



Specter served in the Senate for 24 years, while this is Paul’s first crack at public office. Specter is a regular on the Sunday talk shows, while Paul couldn’t buy his way on. Specter ran on ObamaCare; Paul practices actual health care.…

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As many of you have heard, we have decided to end our Congressional campaign. Tim, Not Tammy will missing the Tim part.



There is not a great news story here; no juicy sex scandal, no heroic fight against a deadly disease, no backroom deal brokered by secret world government billionaire bankers.



We are ending the race…

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