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John Stossel: Who Is Paul Ryan? I wanted to like Paul Ryan. Before he was nationally known, Rep. Ryan visited me at ABC, and we went to lunch. He was terrific. He was a rare politician, one who actually cared about America’s coming debt crisis and the unfairness of entitlements. He even talked about F.A. Hayek‘s [...]

Daniel J. Mitchell: Explaining Ryan’s Budget in the Wall Street Journal The era of bipartisan big government may have come to an end. Largely thanks to Rep. Paul Ryan and the fiscal blueprint he prepared as chairman of the House Budget Committee earlier this year, the GOP has begun climbing back on the wagon of fiscal [...]

Jonah Goldberg: Business vs. Markets Sweet fancy Moses! What’s next? Will conservatives come out in favor of bears doing their bathroom business in the woods without government oversight? Will the market fundamentalists soon argue that children eat candy for the sweet, sweet taste? Is there no end to their ideological madness? What a great way to [...]

Reading this book is like panning for gold. You have to sort through a lot of silt to find the nuggets. But the nuggets are there.

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My first reaction was no doubt just like yours: Rand has sold out! No, he hasn’t. He’s much more of a pragmatist than his father, and thinks he can accomplish more in the freedom fight from the inside.

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We’ll see if this guy is a good as he says he is.

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You sleep with big dogs, you get big fleas. I never could figure out why Tea Party (allegedly pro-freedom) groups would consider, even for a moment, asking the IRS to grant them a tax exemption. What are they thinking? Am I missing something here?

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This was hard for me to write. I spent an amazing week at a Cato Institute conference with my brother two years ago and still consider it one of the more remarkable experiences in my life. The speakers were brilliant and really stretched my thinking. And I have admiration for the Koch brothers and their willingness to stand tall and put their money where their mouth is. It’s just an unhappy situation with no winners.

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What a devious, cunning, shrewd manipulator Stone was. But his explanation of why he left the Republican Party in favor of the Libertarian Party is too good to miss.

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Where is the outrage? Where is the anger? Where is the complaining? Is there just ONE politician with backbone stiff enough to say NO?

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Some articles at Light from the Right first appeared at The New American.

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