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Guest AuthorNovember 8, 2015

It’s Veterans Day on Wednesday and I’m even more excited than usual. In researching this column, I learned that as a Vietnam veteran I may be eligible to collect VA disability benefits because I have diabetes – even though I’m sure my tedious year at Phu Cat Air Force Base has nothing to do with […]

Mitch PerryJuly 29, 2015

His presidential campaign may be going nowhere in New Hampshire and Iowa, but Marco Rubio can boast of something that none of the other 16 GOP contenders can say today. He’s been named one of the 50 most beautiful people in Washington, according to The Hill. Editors at the D.C.-based news site say they opened […]

Guest AuthorJuly 27, 2015

For decades, conservatives have lamented federal subsidies in American farm policy accruing to Big Sugar. Strangely, the wailing falls silent south of the Georgia border. In Tallahassee, the glad-handing and back slapping by Big Sugar for its supporters is ubiquitous. The application of sugar money to lobbyists’ and lawyers’ net worth statements, contributions to lawmakers, […]

Mitch PerryApril 15, 2015

On Tax Day, Marco Rubio and Utah Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Lee appeared at the Heritage Foundation in Washington to discuss their much-hyped tax reform package, called the Economic Growth and Family Fairness Tax Reform Plan. “This is not a middle-class tax hike, this is a middle-class tax cut,” Lee said in his opening remarks, streamed […]

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