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What Would the Founding Fathers Think?

Congress n. ˈkɒŋ grɪs;v. the act of coming together (Merriman-Webster). We should take a step back. Think about what our Founding Fathers thought about, and then created. Three branches of government. One is the Congress. The fathers didn’t create an ideological body for partisan purposes. They created a vehicle for different ideologies to come together and settle on a path for the good of America. They understood that no single ideology pointed to that path. That’s why they left the old country and came here. And what has been wrought?
Posted on November 30, 2011 By Virtual Vantage Points
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Healthy Eating: What’s Your Policy?

Late last week, at the request of Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, along with partners in an interagency working group at the USDA, FDA and CDC, released for comment a set of “Preliminary Proposed Nutrition Principles for Marketing Foods to Children Ages 2-17.” Congress tasked the working group with developing a set of principles to guide industry efforts to improve the nutritional profile of foods marketed directly to children and to tap into the power of advertising and marketing to support healthful food choices.
Posted on May 3, 2011 By Tara Greco
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Circumventing Electoral Road Rage

In expressing contempt for, and rage against, Washington elites and the federal government on behalf of “the people,” Sarah Palin is exploiting an American political phenomenon that began some 140 years before she was born, when Andrew Jackson’s election as president in 1828 inaugurated the themes of anti-Washington, anti-New York populism. Since then, generations of Americans beset by change have sought to throw-the-bums-out and replace them with people committed to lower taxes, limited federal government and de-regulation. These themes resonate most when economic times have been toughest, and populist rage against elites is at full heat.
Posted on October 29, 2010 By Jonathan Winer
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GOP Wins House: Now What?

In the long-ago movie The Candidate, the Democratic long-shot California Senate candidate played by Robert Redford defeats the incumbent Republican in a close race.  In the final scene of the movie, Redford asks his campaign manager (played by Peter Boyle), “What do we do now?” and Boyle just shrugs his shoulders. That’s the question on [...]
Posted on October 28, 2010 By Bill Pierce
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Health summitry: It’s a draw

Posted by Bill Pierce- Here's my recent post from The Daily Caller about the health care debate. -In the runup to the health care summit, no one thought a bipartisan bill was going to emerge. Instead it was all about the politics and who would gain the upper hand in the debate. Part of that question is [...]
Posted on February 26, 2010 By Bill Pierce
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How relevant is the Presidential debate on health care?

Listening to Senators Clinton and Obama debate their health plans is not very instructive if you want to understand what next year’s health care debate will be like, nor more importantly, understanding what’s at stake.  As I mentioned in my last post, despite Senator Clinton’s insistence that there is a big difference between the two, [...]
Posted on February 29, 2008 By Bill Pierce
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