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C-SPAN: U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee 1994 Hearing on Tobacco – Tobacco CEO’s Testify Before Congress

  Source:The New Democrat  The then Democratic controlled House of Representatives looked into tobacco by investigating the industry and looking at ways of regulating the industry. The famous scene with all of those tobacco executives lying under oath that tobacco … Continue reading

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PBS: MacNeil/Lehrer Report- New York City Bailout: 11/25/1975

  Source:The New Democrat The late 1960s and probably the 1970s as a whole was a very rough period for New York City. Facing high crime rates, high poverty, high unemployment, a lousy economy in general, as well as mismanagement … Continue reading

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Luke Jeffers: The MacNeil/Lehrer Report 11/9/1982

The MacNeil/Lehrer Report I guess as it was called back then, now known as the PBS NewsHour was talking about the influence of political pacs, or political action committees on Congressional elections during the 1982 Congressional mid-term elections in the … Continue reading

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PBS NewsHour: Shields & Brooks On ISIS & Bob McDonnell

Source:The New Democrat  I believe the United States is getting ready to wipeout ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and NATO may help them out. And NATO may step in when it comes to Ukraine as well by … Continue reading

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PBS NewsHour: Shields & Brooks: Islamic State in Syria & Iraq

Source:The New Democrat  Of course Congress has to and needs to not only approve any new war America gets involved in Syria and Iraq. Because what President Obama and the National Security Council are considering is a new war and … Continue reading

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: The Future of The GOP With Richard Nixon (1966)

Source:The New Democrat  This is where Richard Nixon rebuilt his political career as someone who can not only raise a lot of money, but build up a lot of support not just for himself, but for candidates he endorsed and … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: Saul Alinsky – Mobilizing The Poor (1967)

Source:The New Democrat  What I got in from this discussion from the few moments that Saul Alinsky got to talk about his own personal philosophy even though this is about a fifteen-minute video, is that Mr. Alinsky was saying that … Continue reading

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Liberty Pen: Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Margaret Thatcher: Capitalism & a Free Society (1975)

Source:The New Democrat  This is what a so-called smart Conservative sounds like in Margaret Thatcher and again conservative by British standards, which means lest socialist than Social Democrats. Lady Thatcher wasn’t arguing against the safety net, actually she believed in … Continue reading

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PBS: NewsHour: David Brooks & Ruth Marcus on Police Power in Ferguson

Source:The New Democrat  Liberals and Libertarians coming together on Ferguson and its militarization of police. Something where we should definitely be able to agree especially for a town that is as small as Ferguson, Missouri and is a suburb of … Continue reading

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: George C. Wallace: The Wallace Crusade (1968)

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– interviewing Governor George C. Wallace (Independent, Alabama) in 1968. Source:The New Democrat “WFB had sharply criticized Mr. Wallace in print, both for his once-adamant attachment to segregation and for his New Deal statism, and … Continue reading

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