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Will the Real Conservative Please Stand Up?

by JFesta July 7, 2010

  I’ve seen many conservatives, on this site, and in the media, say that the Republican Party needs another Ronald Reagan. I am the first to admit I am no fan of Reagan. Though his support for the U.N. Convention Against Torture was principled and should have been approved when he presented it to the [...]

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The Will of the People.

by JFesta February 23, 2010
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In the first part of an article series called The Game Plan I said that it was time for the Democrats in congress to stop negotiating and start fighting for what they wanted in healthcare reform. I further said that one of the thing they should be doing moving forward was pass a new part [...]

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The Game Plan. Part 2

by JFesta February 16, 2010
financial reform

In the first article in this series I talked about ways to pass health care reform. In this article I am going to focus on financial reforms. If there is one thing people dislike more than politicians right now, its banks, specifically big banks. People feel, and rightly so, that they have been taken advantage [...]

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The Game Plan. Part 1

by JFesta January 28, 2010
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This article is going to be part of a series that will lay out the way forward as I see it for the Democratic Party since they no longer hold a 60 seat majority in the Senate and face the prospect of losing more seats in the house and senate resulting in slimmer majorities. The [...]

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Democracy for Sale

by JFesta January 23, 2010

As he emerged from the Constitutional Convention Ben Franklin was asked, “What have you given us?” Franklin replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” After the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission it would be more apt to say that we have a Republic, if you can afford it. In [...]

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Democratic doomsday….Really?

by JFesta January 10, 2010

Earlier this week Sen. Byron Dorgan (D- ND) and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) announced that they would not seek reelection. Both are long serving member of the United States Senate as well as being leaders in their party. The loss of the leadership of these two men will be strongly felt in the Democratic Party. [...]

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Election Season is Now Open

by JFesta January 2, 2010

With New Years past it has now become my second most favorite season, election season. Many are asking the question, “Does the incredulousness of the “Tea Party Patriots”, the noise of the “Tea Party Express” crowd, and high unemployment mean that Republicans, guided by conservative ideology will sweep to power as a check on the [...]

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Ronald Reagan was right on Torture, and Barack Obama is wrong.

by JFesta December 23, 2009

      A very good friend from college sent me a newspaper article last week. It was short, to the point, and utterly disturbing. The United States, according to recent polling, is the most permissive nation when it comes to torture. The article in question makes reference to a communication to the Senate, from the President, [...]

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Round One is in the Books

by JFesta November 4, 2009

Round one of off year voting in the Obama Presidency is in the books and we can safely say’¦.we know as much or less than we did two days ago.What then can be said that was learned on Tuesday. In New Jersey we know this much. Republican Chris Christi won, and did so convincingly. Christi, [...]

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Showing Their True Colors

by JFesta October 22, 2009

On October 1st of this year the Senate conducted business much as it does on any other say it is in session. On the agenda for that day was the Department Defense Appropriations act of 2010 with time scheduled to make amendments to that act prior to debate and passage. Al Franken (D ‘“ MN) [...]

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