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• Senate and House Work Hard to Accomplish NothingPosted 59 days ago
• Budget from Paul Ryan Too Steep, Risks Economic DisruptionPosted 61 days ago
• No Labels’ Mark McKinnon: White House Closed for Us, but Rich Can Buy Meetings with ObamaPosted 66 days ago

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  Senate and House Work Hard to Accomplish Nothing

  Finally, the Senate passes a budget, the first in four years.  It barely passed too!  And, it has no chance of passing the House of Representatives.  Several Democrats crossed party lines to vote against it.  Let’s not...

  • Posted 59 days ago
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  Mass Shootings, Guns, and Responsibility

  This article originally posted on The Moderate Independent on January 14, 2013. It seems like each time I sit down to finish writing about the gun issue (at least for now), there is another incident.  A few days ago,...

  • Posted 60 days ago
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  Budget from Paul Ryan Too Steep, Risks Economic Disruption

  I’ll give the Paul Ryan budget one thing – unlike the Patty Murray budget plan, his plan does put the federal budget on a path toward being balanced… if you accept the economic growth assumptions (I don’t)....

  • Posted 61 days ago
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  No Labels’ Mark McKinnon: White House Closed for Us, but Rich Can Buy Meetings with Obama

  Interesting tidbit from No Labels co-founder Mark McKinnon, writing at the British paper The Telegraph. He draws an interesting parallel between how Obama and company have decided to use the closure of White House tours as a...

  • Posted 66 days ago
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  Budget from Patty Murray is Bandaid on a Gaping Wound

  The talking points coming from the left regarding Senate Budget Chair Patty Murray’s budget proposal sound good. Patty Murray and company would have you believe it’s balanced (it isn’t). They say that it’s fair, and well… that’s...

  • Posted 67 days ago
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  No Labels’ No Budget, No Pay – Obama Edition: No Excuse for Late Budget

  That’s an awful lot of no’s in the headline, isn’t it? It’s fitting, because ‘no, no, no, no…’, along with something amounting to my forehead meeting my palm, is just the sort of reaction I get when...

  • Posted 68 days ago
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  Sequester, Sequestivus and the Airing of Grievances

  The Legend of the Origin of  Sequestivus The great leader Obama, who was dearly loved by (52% of) the people spoke to his minions and said “Hear me! You must fear the great beast Sequester, for if...

  • Posted 70 days ago
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• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities still blaming Bush tax cuts for deficit even though they expired.

    The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities recently updated their analysis of the underlying causes of our debt and deficit problems. Their key findings are summarized in these two charts.   Their conclusion – Four years...

  • Posted 79 days ago
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• Hoping for Some Political Chaos: The Sequel

  Now first I have to apologize for those who may not quite understand the title. About a month ago I wrote a piece that was titled Hoping for Some Political Chaos (1) , in which I played...

  • Posted 87 days ago
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• Centrist / Moderate Blog Submission Guidelines

  Want to Blog Here? All You Have to do is Ask! Centrists Rising is a community blog, meaning we’re open to any of our centrist to moderate registered users writing blog posts and engaging with other readers,...

  • Posted 227 days ago
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• Centrist / Moderate Personal Blog to Political Community

  From Centrist / Moderate Rant Space to Growing Online Community The most avid readers here might know that this site is almost a year in the coming. I started the centrist blog Rise of the Center (rest...

  • Posted 228 days ago
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