Tea Party Conservatives and Occupy Wall Streeters don’t agree on much, but they do agree on one thing — both groups despise crony capitalists and crony capitalism.

Huge corporations, especially banks, insurance companies, and other big financial institutions are nominally born of free-market capitalism where success and growth comes from providing the best services at the lowest prices.  One might think that these huge corporations would therefore favor unfettered competition.  And...

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In the audio excerpts below, Jonah Goldberg and Dennis Prager have an insightful discussion on the use of clichés by the liberals, how liberals make Big Government look attractive to the electorate, and what the prospects are for reversing America’s leftward slide.

Highlights of Goldberg’s remarks:

1. With the decline of family, community, and faith, liberals promote Big Government as a seductive surrogate for all three.  (Hence the pronouncement “Government is the one thing...

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Arizona Republicans are opposed to expanding medicaid. The poll clearly reveals that Republicans are not only opposed, but also that Republicans in support of expansion are in jeopardy come election time.

Governor Brewer is in full campaign mode, criss-crossing the state attempting to convince Republicans that implementing Obamacare is the “will” of the voters. It is not.

“[a]mong Republican primary voters in the six legislative districts a majority, or 53% are less likely to r...

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