Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/07/13/chronicle/ Chronicle · July 13, 2011 The Foundation "[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another." --Thomas Jefferson Editorial Exegesis Obama and the jolly green giant debt "Republicans seemed warily confident that they might get a [debt-ceiling] deal over the weekend on cutting future spending without raising taxes -- a deal that would likely lead to smaller future deficits, the possibility of badly needed tax reforms and the resumption of economic and jobs growth. No such luck. Not only did Obama not rea...

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