Archive for ‘Stephen Harper’

Freezing Spending, Assuring a Surplus

Feb 18, 2014

  Amazingly enough, the federal government announced in February a freeze on new spending, with credible plans for a budget surplus by 2015! Unfortunately, the federal government I’m referring to isn’t in the U.S.; it’s north of...

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Conservative Lessons from Down Under

Sep 11, 2013

In Australia, the conservative contender Tony Abbott won a crushing victory over the left-leaning Labor Party that had run the country for six years.  Abbott—the pro-life, global warming skeptic who was supposedly too conservative for...

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