OCTOBER 3, 2011, The political graveyards are full of politicians who thought that temporary, targeted economic policies would get them re-elected. By JOHN F. COGAN AND JOHN B. TAYLOR Mr. Cogan, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of public policy at Stanford University, served as deputy director of the Office of […]
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OCTOBER 4, 2011 Why no one wants to repeal a program that everyone knows is a fraud. The Obama health-care plan passed 18 months ago, and its cynicism still manages to astonish. Witness the spectacle surrounding one of its flagship new entitlements, which is eliciting some remarkable concessions from its drafters. The Health and Human
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OCTOBER 4, 2011 Sarbox and Immigration Reform for Jobs The president is right. We can’t wait until 2012 for change. By BOB GREIFELD Mr. Greifeld is CEO of Nasdaq OMX. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: First, we need to consider revising the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley accounting-reform law—specifically Section 404, which requires costly external audits in addition to
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WASHINGTON TIMES Disgraced vote-fraudster affiliate lobbying the Obama administration By Matthew Vadum- Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Why is an affiliate of the disgraced group ACORN lobbying the White House? White House visitor records show that attorney Estelle H. Rogers, director of advocacy at ACORN-affiliated Project Vote, met with a senior aide to Obama adviser Valerie
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 Washington’s Quietest Disaster Student loan defaults are growing, and the worst is still to come. When critics warned about rising defaults on government-backed student loans two years ago, the question was how quickly taxpayers would feel the pain. The U.S. Department of Education provided part of the answer this month when it
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011, 7:14 P.M. ET North American oil production can double by 2035. By LUCIAN PUGLIARESI In response to a 2009 request from Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) reported earlier this month that oil production in North America could double by 2035—to 20 million barrels per day. Where can
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 The Department of Energy keeps shoveling out taxpayer money. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The Energy Information Administration estimates that new natural gas-fired plants will create electricity at a cost of $63.10 per megawatt hour, compared to the Administration’s “green” favorites, offshore wind and solar thermal plants—like the one in Nevada funded yesterday—which
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OCTOBER 1, 2011 School districts hire special investigators to follow kids home in order to verify their true residences. By MICHEAL FLAHERTY In case you needed further proof of the American education system’s failings, especially in poor and minority communities, consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft. That’s the charge that
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson October 4, 2011 Ten Lessons from Obama In less than three years Barack Obama has reversed all expectations. The election of Barack Obama brought all sorts of contradictions. A man with about the least prior executive experience in presidential history was suddenly acclaimed a “god” and the smartest
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