FEULNER: Red tape on the rise Take notice of hidden taxes before they get out of hand By Ed Feulner– President of the Heritage Foundation The Washington Times Tuesday, November 2, 2010 Nobody enjoys paying taxes. Not the ones the government deducts from every paycheck. Not sales taxes. And certainly not the check millions of […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The problem with electric cars. Jonathan V. Last October 25, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 06 The age of the electric car is here. Everyone says so. There it is emblazoned on the cover of the latest Wired magazine: “The age of the electric car is here. CHARGE!” In the
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WALL STREET JOURNAL NOVEMBER 11, 2010 The 1099 Democrats The Democrats decoupled from business—and lost the election. By DANIEL HENNINGER Calvin Coolidge once said, “The chief business of the American people is business.” The Democrats just lost America because they forgot that. On second thought, you can’t forget what you never knew. The Democrats running
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NOVEMBER 8, 2010 ‘Net Neutrality’ Goes 0 for 95 Regulating the Web wasn’t a political winner last week. By L. GORDON CROVITZ As a reminder of unpredictability in politics, consider what happened when the Progressive Change Campaign Committee last month announced that 95 candidates for Congress had signed a pledge to support “net neutrality.” The
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TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 5, 2010 Security Fears Kill Chinese Bid in U.S. By JOANN S. LUBLIN and SHAYNDI RAICE Sprint Nextel Corp. is excluding Chinese telecommunications-equipment makers Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. from a contract worth billions of dollars largely because of national security concerns in Washington, according to people familiar with the matter. A
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Beijing spying feared in telecom proposal Chinese firm would make parts Washington Times November 5, 2010 by Eli Lake EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: John Tkacik, who was the chief intelligence analyst on China for the State Department during the Clinton administration, said the employee ownership of Huawei does not diminish the company’s close ties to
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NOVEMBER 5, 2010 The Boehner Evolution House Republicans and the challenge of divided government. John Boehner is no Newt Gingrich, which suits the current public mood. Americans have had their fill of triumphalism and revolution in a House Speaker. But Barack Obama is also no Bill Clinton, a President with a gift for tactical politics
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NEWS & OBSERVER Oct 29, 2010 HOW CHINA GAINED A RARE EARTH EDGE DURHAM People are wrong if they think that China couldn’t possibly obtain any more power over America than it already has. The latest problem is rare earth elements. Rare earth elements are, well, rare. They are mostly a group of 15 metals
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TYRRELL: Foreign money? Democrats, not the GOP, are the customary recipients By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. – The Washington Times October 13, 2010 Outgoing White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel winks as President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, during an announcement that
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com October 12, 2010 Obama the Alien By Lawrence Kudlow To be so completely disconnected from political reality and the investor class, the president must be from another planet. Believe it or not, with jobs falling for four consecutive months and unemployment stubbornly high near 10 percent, President Obama is out on
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