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Who Dat?? It's Us.
2/8:  LL Blog- The Saints of New Orleans are Super Bowl champions, but is America more like New Orleans then we care to admit?. - Goll

2/3:  LLBlog- A collection of excerpts about the budget from around the web.

A 3 Sentence Litmus Test For GOP Candidates
2/2:  Principles- Before receiving national GOP funds, let's have candidates sign this. - Prothro

The Hoover Institute's Ajami Analyzes Obama Perfectly
2/1:  LL Blog- Fouad Ajami in the WSJ tracks Obama's rise and fall of the past year in a devastating critique.

1/29:  Principles- Part two of reflections and thoughts on the principle of liberty, why it is so critical to our society and why it ultimately is a source of hope. - Simmons

Fire Obama; Hire T. Rowe Price: SOTU Reaction
1/28:  Commentary:  Since the President insists on calling government spending “investment,” I think it’s important to point out the obvious. - Prothro

Clinton's 1994 SOTU Speech
1/27:  LL Blog- Before Pres. Obama addresses a joint session of Congress and the American people tonight, we look back at a President's SOTU speech in a similar political circumstance 16 years ago. - Goll

Video: "Fear the Boom and Bust"
1/26:  LL TV- Two classic economic rivals, Hayek and Keynes, square off in a hilarious rap video of competing economic theories. 

Obama is Not a Socialist
1/25:  Timeless Voices- Ludwig Von Mises would label Obama an interventionist—a person who reluctantly admits the advantages of private ownership but believes government should intervene to rectify its evils. -Prothro

Democrats Weigh Their Options
 1/22:  Commentary- Of all the options available to the Democrats in their post-Brown election haze, one option is clearly superior to all others-- kill the healthcare bill. - Spiegel 

On Liberty, Part I
1/21:  Principles- Part one of reflections and thoughts on the principle of liberty, why it is so critical to our society and why it ultimately is a source of hope. - Simmons

Wednesday Morning Quarterbacking Brown's Win
1/20:  LL Blog- We offer our passing thoughts and analysis about Scott Brown's stunning upset in Massachusetts-- what Brown did best, what it means, and where things go from here. - Prothro, Goll

Vote Brown, Start the Healthcare Bill Farewell Tour
1/19:  Commentary- Today is election day in Massachusetts. The GOP has the potential to pick-up the Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy, continue to gain momentum for November, and derail the Democrats' healthcare plan for good. - Spiegel

An Exposed Philosophy
1/18:  Commentary- Now that the campaign is gone and Obama’s policies have exposed his worldview, Americans aren’t on board any more.  - Prothro

GOP Primary in Texas Serves as 2012 Disqualifier
1/15:  Commentary- Last night's Perry-Hutchinson debate proved nothing but that there is little difference between the two, and that the whispers about either of them running for president in 2012 should end. Now.  - Goll

The Democrats' Tower of Babel
1/14:  Commentary- "The two bills are like delicate Jenga towers, swaying nerve-wrackingly in the breeze, that must now be reassembled by a team of 535 clumsy attention-seekers into a single tower twice as tall." - Spiegel

I'll Say This About Harry Reid
1/13:  LL Blog- A suggested Republican press release about the Harry Reid mess. - Prothro

Harry's Attitude Is Bigger Problem Than His Words
1/12: LL Blog- Sure, what Harry Reid said was offensive to African-Americans, but it was also offensive to all other Americans as well. - Goll

Two Reasons We Must Defend Private Property
1/11: Principles- Economists Von Mises and Sowell on why private property is essential to our liberty as well as our prosperity. - Prothro

Suggested Reading
1/7: LL Blog- Go read two timely, insightful pieces-- one defending Brit Hume, the other challenging the GOP . - Goll

Trust Fund Terrorist
1/6: Commentary- Here's hoping that the would-be Christmas day/underwear bomber puts an end to the incorrect assumption that poverty causes terrorism. - Spiegel

Hayek's Road to Serfdom in Cartoons
1/5:  LL TV- Our new featured video is a concise version of Hayek's classic work in cartoon form.

Predictions for 2010
1/4:  LL Blog- We predict problems for Democratic House members and Harry Reid, as well as problems with Iran and judicial conformations. Should be an interesting year. - Goll

Top 10 Stories of 2009- Part II
12/30:  LL Blog- Continuing the countdown of the year's top news stories-- both those extensively covered and conveniently ignored by the media. - Spiegel

Top 10 Stories of 2009- Part I
12/29:  LL Blog- The first half of a countdown of the year's top news stories-- both those extensively covered and conveniently ignored by the media. - Spiegel

Gov. Mitch Daniels: Our new featured video
12/28:  LL TV- Our newest featured video is C-SPAN's hour-long sitdown with Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels who talks about his conservative, reformist style of governing.

PJ O'Rourke:  God is a Republican, Santa Claus a Democrat
12/24:  Blog- From Parliament of Whores, 1991: "Santa Claus is preferable to God in every way but one: There is no such thing as Santa Claus."

Obama Thinks We're Stupid
12/23: Commentary- Obama and his team have pegged the American people as gullible and senseless.  It’s as if, after hoodwinking the American people and getting elected, Obama is convinced he can make us believe anything. - Prothro

Standing Athwart Obamacare Yelling Stop
12/22: Commentary- An alternative plan is irrelevant right now-- the important thing is that this terrible healthcare bill is stopped, and stopped now. - Goll

Top 10 Conservatives of the Year
12/18: LL Blog- Olympia Snowe, Dede Scozzafava…  Whoops—that’s the Huffington Post’s Top 10 Conservatives of 2009! - Spiegel

Really Grading Pres. Obama
12/16: LL Blog- We believe that when, the other night, the President gave himself a "B+" when grading his job performance, it was a high profile example of grade inflation. - Goll

The Climate Crusades
12/14: Commentary - We want clean air and water just like everyone else, but we’re not ready to turn over our lives to wannabe oligarchs, especially those now plotting in Copenhagen. - Prothro

Copenhagen or Bust (Hint: Bust)
12/11: Commentary - At the risk of offending the sensibilities of some, the fact is that the Copenhagen Climate Conference is going to be, on every level, a monumental failure. - Spiegel

10 Dying Brands
12/9: LL Blog - A business blog has predicted the 10 brands that we may not longer see after next year. These brands are dying-- and that is ok. It's a natural part of a market economy. - Goll

Harry Reid is Right
12/8: LL Blog - Harry Reid compared opponents of healthcare reform to segregationists and those who were slow to support civil rights. We think he was right, in a way... - Prothro

The Debt of Nations
12/7:  Timeless Voices - Adam Smith shows us there is nothing new under the sun.  Resources are still limited, employment still created by surplus, and balanced budgets still prudent--all ideas we instinctively know. - Prothro

We Know What Won't Happen
12/3 - Commentary: There is still no telling exactly what all the fallout will be from the "Climategate" scandal. However, we can reasonably foresee what will not happen. - Spiegel

Looking at Afghanistan with Sun Tzu
12/2 - Timeless Voices: Sun Tzu's classic writing from The Art of War is amazingly applicable to our current military conflicts and President Obama's troop decision. - Goll

Oppose One for the Gipper
12/1 - LL Blog: Ronald Reagan clearly understood why Obamacare is a bad idea-- in 1961. His warnings are still needed today. President Obama may want us to ignore the debates of the past, and we should do no such thing. - Goll

Why All the Class Envy? Richard Weaver Explains
11/30 - Timeless Voices: "Self-pampering, present-minded modern man looks neither before nor after; he marks inequalities of condition and, forbidden by his dogmas to admit inequalities of merit, moves to obliterate them." - Prothro

What is 'Limited Government'?
11/25 - Principles:  As we constantly use the term, 'limited government' has come to have too many meanings. It is critical to know what is meant by 'limited government' and why it is important. - Simmons

SNL More Effective Than NBC News
11/24 - LL Blog:  Sadly, we must now rely on sketch comedy to ask the difficult questions about government spending and the prospects of economic recovery. - Goll

Behold, Inflation Cometh
11/23 - Timeless Voices:  The fear of inflation, according to Thomas Sowell, is not irrational:  "...governments of all types—from monarchies to democracies to dictatorships—have resorted to inflation, as a means of getting more wealth without having to directly confront the public with higher taxes.” - Prothro

A Critical Look at the Books Senators Write
11/20 - LLBlog:  Of the 98 books on the list, 27 can be classified as either “memoirs” or books of “self promotion”.  This means almost 28% of all books written by Senators are about themselves.  There is only one book about God. - Prothro

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