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Vicki McClure Davidson | September 11, 2011

  When Pres. Obama and other liberals have slammed successful business owners and millionaires for not “paying their fair share,” examples of corporation fat cats buzzing about in private jets haven’t ever included video game makers. But if you’re going to decry and make an example of businesses that have prospered because of faulty tax [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | September 11, 2011

  Pres. Obama’s still-unwritten, childishly vague jobs (aka stimulus) bill calls for the federal government to spend $447 billion of taxpayers’ money. That’s plus or minus a hundred billion. So, Mr. President, what does that “plus or minus” of a hundred billion dollars look like? Or a trillion dollars? Graphic visualizations are here at usdebt.kleptocracy.us. [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | September 11, 2011

  Ten years? As I grapple with my disbelief that a full decade has passed since millions of Americans across the nation watched in horror on TV the World Trade Center collapse into a mountain of fiery rubble, this post brought tears to my eyes. Peggy Noonan’s moving tribute in the Wall Street Journal on [...]

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