Scottie Hughes

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  • Could Today's Libertarian Be Tomorrow's Liberal?

    Could Today's Libertarian Be Tomorrow's Liberal?

    Should I vote with my heart or my brain? It's a question most Libertarians will ask themselves when they step into the ballot box in 2014 and 2016.

  • Christie vs. Paul: Act One

    Christie vs. Paul: Act One

    If the 2016 presidential election were an opera, Act One began last week with sparring between two of the leading GOP candidates, New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Kentucky Senator Rand Paul.

  • The Absent Outcry of a Murdered Mother and Her Son

    The Absent Outcry of a Murdered Mother and Her Son

    I imagine the morning of June 16, 2013 started off like any other traditional morning in Amy Gibbon's house. A young single mother trying to provide the best life possible for her 5-year-old son in the small town of Calumet, Oklahoma, the everyday stresses of being a parent on her own probably vanished at the smile, which usually dominated her son's face.

  • Detroit: Rock City Has Hit Rock Bottom

    Detroit: Rock City Has Hit Rock Bottom

    Welcome to the post-sequester apocalypse. As much as President Obama will have us believe otherwise, the greatest financial catastrophe in the coming days will not be of Washington's making at all

  • Obama's Order to the Military: Stand Down

    Obama's Order to the Military: Stand Down

    In closed door hearings on Capitol Hill today, Congress will ask military commanders with responsibility for forces in and around Benghazi who exactly relayed that order and why. But a closer look at this administration's record reveals that standing down is a recurring theme. It is an implicit order that is given to the military every day in the Obama administration.

  • What I Learned From Vince Flynn

    What I Learned From Vince Flynn

    Names like Palin, Breitbart, Coulter, Malkin, and Rumsfeld are just a few which I choose to put on my mantel; however, tonight, as I looked at these books, my eyes fell upon Consent to Kill by Vince Flynn, and for the first time all day, I allowed myself to cry.

  • Obama Actions Show Neglect, Betrayal; Not Scandal

    Obama Actions Show Neglect, Betrayal; Not Scandal

    I am beginning to realize that we are performing a major injustice when we call all of the events of the past year scandals. Scandals are what soap operas base their story line off of.

  • Michele Bachmann Should Lead the IRS

    Michele Bachmann Should Lead the IRS

    The IRS has wronged Conservatives. The only way to restore a semblance of trust in the institution is to appoint someone that can be counted on to clean house and keep the rogue institution from overstepping its bounds again.

  • The Tea Party's Message is Bigger Than Michele Bachmann

    The Tea Party's Message is Bigger Than Michele Bachmann

    Keep that in mind this week when you hear the mainstream media say Michele Bachmann's decision not to run for re-election means the end of the Tea Party.

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