CHICAGO TRIBUNE Chief of staff pick just another cog in the Daley machine By John Kass January 7, 2011 As President Barack Obama knighted Chicago’s William Daley as his new chief of staff — and kept the Daley machine in control of the executive branch of our federal government — I couldn’t help thinking of […]
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AMERICAN THINKER January 06, 2011 What Obama Thinks of America By Wendy Wright Sometimes the best way to find out what a person thinks about you is to find out what he tells others. That’s why the report on America’s human rights record filed by the Obama administration with the U.N. is particularly interesting. It’s
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NEWS & OBSERVER Jan 05, 2011 Raleigh, North Carolina by William H. Pruden III, head of the Upper School at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh A new Congress convenes today, and recent news reports indicate that there are plans to put the Constitution front and center as the nation’s lawmakers prepare to address the country’s mounting
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 5, 2011 Covert Action Makes a Comeback Once in disrepute, secret warfare is now embraced even by the Obama administration to fight terrorism and weapons proliferation. By MAX BOOT We’re in an era of “covert action.” That phrase went into disrepute in the 1970s, when Congress’s Church Committee exposed hare-brained CIA
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THE GAME JANUARY 4, 2011 By DENNIS K. BERMAN Land values soared. States splurged on new programs. Then it all went bust, bringing down banks and state governments with them. This wasn’t America in 2011, it was America in 1841, when a now-forgotten depression pushed eight states and a desolate territory called Florida into the
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JANUARY 4, 2011 The House Republican majority has said it will require members to cite the specific authority for any bill they introduce. By ROGER PILON If the new Congress to be sworn in on Wednesday is the tea party’s cardinal achievement so far, its most symbolic achievement will come on Thursday, when the first
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January 01, 2011By K.E. Campbell The biggest challenge facing Republicans in the 112th Congress is not Barack Obama. It is not Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate. It isn’t high unemployment, repealing ObamaCare, the threat of Islamism and sharia in America, the deficit, or the looming insolvency of several (mostly blue) states. These, broadly speaking,
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BOOK REVIEW: By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times December 10, 2010 WHEN OIL PEAKED By Kenneth S. Deffeyes Hill and Wang, $24, 143 pages In 2001, building on the geologist M. King Hubbert’s prediction that U.S. oil production would peak between 1965 and 1970, Kenneth S. Deffeyes, emeritus professor of geology at Princeton
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