"The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource that will eventually run out, and even before it runs out will get more expensive to extract from the ground. - Barack Obama, 2011. In August 1859 on the eve of the Civil War, Col. Edwin Laurentine Drake…
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• 08/18/15 Hillary wants to make your college even more expensive
• 07/28/15 This Republican bill will raise government spending and taxes
• 07/13/15 Socialism, RIP: Tottering European economies prove again the Keynesian model is a failure
• 06/15/15 Creating a shared prosperity -- yours and America's -- for $100 a month
• 06/01/15 GOP gluttons back into the hot tub
• 05/11/15 'Green movement' did itself in --- and not a moment too soon
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• 09/15/14 Obamanomics victimizes prez's biggest supporters most