March 30, 2013 The Debt Bomb That Taxpayers Won’t See Coming State and local governments owe $7.3 trillion in promises they’ve made that were never approved by taxpayers. By STEVEN MALANGA Mr. Malanga is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. This column is adapted from a forthcoming issue of City Journal, where he […]
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MY UNRECOGNIZABLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
March 18, 2013 My Unrecognizable Democratic Party The stakes are too high, please get serious about governing before it’s too late. By TED VAN DYK Mr. Van Dyk served in Democratic national administrations and campaigns over several decades. His memoir of public life, “Heroes, Hacks and Fools,” was first published by University of Washington
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CUTTING GOVERNMENT’S WASTEFUL SPENDING
March 8, 2013 The Drama Over, Time For Smart Budget Cuts Since 2002, total federal spending has increased nearly 89% while median household income has dropped 5%. By TOM COBURN Mr. Coburn is a Republican senator from Oklahoma. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Another source of potential savings is duplication of federal services, which accounts
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A NATION OF ‘WIMPODITES’
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ALLARD: America: The Land of the wimps Our national character eroding By Col. Ken Allard Colonel Allard is retired from the Army, is a former NBC News Military Analyst and author on national security issues. Monday, February 18, 2013 Illustration: Denigrating America by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times EXCERPT FROM
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FORMER HEAD OF BB&T GIVES CAUSES OF 2008 FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
THE WASHINGTON TIMES DECKER: 5 Questions with BB&T’s John Allison ‘It’s easier for government to control a few large institutions’ By Brett M. Decker– Brett M. Decker, former Editorial Page Editor for The Washington Times, was an editorial page writer and editor for the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, Senior Vice President of
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JACK LEW, TREASURY GETS A CITIBANKER
January 28, 2013 Treasury Gets a Citibanker From Wall Street failure to the pinnacle of finance in four short years. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: There probably weren’t many laughs at Citi during the market panic in 2008. But if someone had said that a CAI executive, Jack Lew, would be the secretary of the
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WHO CAUSED THE FINANCIAL COLLAPSE?
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Money for Nothing Who caused the financial collapse? Just about everyone. Lewis E. Lehrman January 14, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 17 The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure – Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy’s Only Hope by John A. Allison, McGraw-Hill 320 pages, $28 EXCERPT
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THE MYTH OF GOVERNMENT DEFAULT
January 11, 2013 Rivkin and Casey: The Myth of Government Default The Constitution commands that public debts be repaid. There is no such obligation to fund entitlement programs. By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE A. CASEY EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: …..since the federal government’s roughly $200 billion in tax revenue per month is
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HOLD A SMITHSONIAN YARD SALE FOR EXTRA CASH
December 28, 2012 Sell Yosemite, Hold a Smithsonian Yard Sale Let’s see, the Bureau of Land Management holds 253 million acres. At $2,000 per acre . . . By TERRY L. ANDERSON AND D. BRUCE JOHNSEN Mr. Anderson is president of the Property and Environmental Research Center in Bozeman, Mont., and a senior fellow
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CALIFORNIAS NOT DREAMIN’ – THE NIGHTMARE OF OBAMA’S SECOND TERM
http://www.rogerhedgecock.com/story/16406745/californias-not-dreamin-this-is-the-nightmare-of-an-obama-second-term www.rogerhedgecock.com California Lights the Way Written by Roger Hedgecock, former Mayor of San Diego February 13, 2012 I live in California. If you were wondering what living in Obama’s second term would be like, wonder no longer. We in California are living there now. California is a one-party state dominated by a virulent Democrat
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