by Brad Peck On his very first full day in office, President Obama sent a memorandum to his executive agencies extolling the virtues of transparency and open government and directing them to facilitate public access to information. To further that directive, Obama issued a second memorandum encouraging agencies to “adopt a presumption in favor of…

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THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!! A friend sent this along to me. I can’t think of a reason to disagree. I am sending this to virtually everybody on my e-mail list and that includes conservatives, liberals, and everybody in between. even though we disagree on a number of issues, I count all of you…

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by Theresa Gamble If your first thoughts of the Tea Party movement are old people assembling in large numbers, then you are like most people in the nation. Would you imagine seeing teenagers there? How about ones who want to be there and are actually paying attention to the speakers? True, the initial image of…

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by Ryan Welcenbach I was groggy, as most teenagers are at five in the morning, on a Thursday, but ecstatic to leave for Washington D.C. that morning. Sure, the March For Life would be fun to do, but I was really just doing this trip to leave my parents for a couple of days and…

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