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DURBIN, TESTER, LOBBYISTS, AND THE DODD-FRANK CORRUPTION MACHINE

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Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Timothy P. Carney Jun 14 2011 – If your goal were to foster more political cronyism, reward lobbyists, entrench incumbents, enrich the politically connected, and get the revolving door spinning faster, you would have a hard time crafting a more useful piece of legislation than the Dodd-Frank financial regulation […]

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DON’T BANK ON BEIRUT

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JUNE 14, 2011 Lebanon is a money-laundering haven for the region’s bad guys. By BRET STEPHENS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Following the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a U.N. investigation noted that “it very much seems that fraud, corruption, and money-laundering could also have been motives” in the murder. Hariri,

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AN INTERVIEW WITH MICHELE BACHMANN

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JUNE 11, 2011 ‘On the Beach, I Bring von Mises’ The tea party favorite on her start in politics, where she learned her economics, and why she disagrees with Reagan on the War Powers Resolution. By STEPHEN MOORE “If I’m in, I’ll be all in,” says Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, artfully dodging my question

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CAROLINA JOURNAL

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June 13, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive Government Jobs Untouched by the Great Recession By Don Carrington RALEIGH — Public sector employment levels in North Carolina have been stable since the start of the recession in December 2007. It would take a loss of 63,000 government jobs to match the nearly 9 percent net loss

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THE SCHUMER THREE-STEP – THE DODD-FRANK FINANCIAL REFORM LAW

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JUNE 1, 2011 How to vote for a law and then raise money by deploring its results. Another day, and another cheerleader for the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law is deploring its 2011 impact. This time it’s New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who has spearheaded a letter from 18 Empire State Members of Congress to

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HOLDING ELIZABETH WARREN ACCOUNTABLE

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MAY 25, 2011 The consumer financial czar doth protest too much. No one in Washington does moral indignation better than Elizabeth Warren, the de facto head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And yesterday she was in high dudgeon on Capitol Hill attempting to repel efforts to hold her new bureaucracy more accountable. We

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SHOULD AMERICA SELL ITS GOLD?

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MAY 20, 2011 James Grant believes a resumption of dollar-gold convertibility could be possible. By SETH LIPSKY It’s been 25 years since I found myself sitting in the office of Karl Otto Poehl, the president of the West German Bundesbank. I was then a young editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal intent on asking

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SPAIN VOTE THREATENS TO UNCOVER SPANISH DEBT

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MAY 20, 2011 As Socialists Risk Losing Key Areas, Economists Fear ‘Hidden’ Bills By JONATHAN HOUSE And SARA SCHAEFER MUñOZ ReutersDemonstrators fill up Madrid’s famous Puerta del Sol in a protest against authorities’ handling of the economic crisis on Thursday. MADRID—Weekend elections that threaten to drive Spain’s ruling Socialist party from power in several regions

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THE ROCHE RECORD – OBAMA

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May 19, 2011 by Frank Roche OBAMA’S OFFERS THE MIDDLE EAST UTOPIA A Liberal Utopia: President Obama’s vision of North Africa and the Middle East.  The President gave his highly anticipated “Middle East” speech today at the US State Department in Washington, DC.  It described a world that can most easily be seen through rose

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