https://freerepublic.com/tag/libtardlies/ en-us Mon, 6 Jun 2022 22:20:02 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4069118/posts A dubious meme has emerged online in conservative circles: The price of gasoline will spike because Joe Biden is taking office. The theory is that the president-elect's coming efforts to wean the United States off oil will nail people's pocketbooks. Conservative corners of Facebook are filled with viral photos of gas station signs with prices above $5 a gallon. “Just a reminder of what things looked like the last time Biden was in the White House,” reads one image. But this vastly overstates a president's power to control the cost of a commodity traded on a world market. Although a... Washington Post https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4069118/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jun 2022 22:20:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577422/posts David Mark on negative campaigning and the accidental benefits of campaign finance reform"It's a lot like porn," author David Mark says of negative campaigning—and he means that in a good way. As a political journalist and former editor-in-chief of Campaigns & Elections magazine, Mark has watched vicious attack ads take down many an aspiring politico. But instead of bemoaning the low blows struck in the name of electoral politics—from Swift Boat slanders to friend-of-terrorist-smears—Mark is convinced negativity is a distinctly positive feature of U.S. elections. Like pornographers, Mark argues, negative campaigners have seized emerging technology to reach their audience, bypassing... Reason Foundation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577422/posts#comment Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:14:09 GMT