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By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 27) -- Between big-government Democrats and populist Republicans, where should libertarians look for allies? Reason magazine recently kicked off a debate on this subject by hosting three different opinions: one from the Cato Institute's Brink Lindsey, one from National Review's Jonah Goldberg and one from tea party organization FreedomWorks' Matt Kibbe. Here's what they had to say and what others said in response. No Home in the Republican Party: "All the contemporary right is good for," says Brink Lindsey, "is checking at least some of the left's excesses, and thank goodness for that. ...
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By Joann M. Weiner - Politics Daily"The federal government faces an unprecedented fiscal challenge that risks the future well-being of our children and grandchildren." That's the warning issued by Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the moderator of a conference of budget experts who gathered at Washington's Mayflower Hotel Tuesday to evaluate the nation's fiscal crisis. The panelists, who were participating as part of the Pew-Peterson Commission on Budget Reform, generally did not view President Obama's tax and spending proposals as credible and noted that the president does not ...
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