JULY 28, 2011 The Road to a Downgrade A short history of the entitlement state. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Many on the left still blame Ronald Reagan, but the debt increase in the 1980s financed a robust economic expansion and victory in the Cold War. Debt held by the public at the end of the […]
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JULY 27, 2011 The Antidote for Socialism We’ll have to wait for 2012, because this administration won’t administer it. By PETE DU PONT Last year I wrote that the enactment of ObamaCare meant “the Europeanization of America is coming to pass, for individual choice and opportunity are being replaced by statism.” That law is transferring
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JULY 26, 2011 A Tale of Two Shale States Pennsylvania’s gain vs. New York’s missed opportunity. Politicians wringing their hands over how to create more jobs might study the shale boom along the New York and Pennsylvania border. It’s a case study in one state embracing economic opportunity, while the other has let environmental politics
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JULY 26, 2011 The agency’s ozone rule will be the most expensive in history—and isn’t required by law. By JOHN ENGLER EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: On behalf of the Business Roundtable, Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris recently wrote to White House Chief of Staff William Daley, noting that the EPA’s new ozone rule threatens “to
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Neil Reynolds With government spending, virtue hath its own rewards NEIL REYNOLDS | Columnist profile | E-mail From Monday’s Globe and Mail Published Monday, Jul. 25, 2011 2:00AM EDT In 1900, the governments of the world’s most advanced economies taxed and spent, on average, 10 per cent of respective GDP each year. By 2000, they
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by Human Events (more by this author) Posted 07/25/2011 ET Updated 07/25/2011 ET [The following was originally published as the editorial in the July 25 issue of Human Events newspaper.] It has been strange to watch the mainstream media ignore the most incredible scandal of the modern era—the “Gunwalker” program used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
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JULY 25, 2011 The President isn’t serious about real spending cuts. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The President insists his party is offering serious spending cuts and entitlement reform. He also likes to talk about “balance,” which to him means real tax increases immediately and speculative spending cuts some time in the distant future. Behind the
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JULY 25, 2011 A welfare state that led to permanent austerity would betray the principles that have made American culture exceptional. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:Consider a few facts. The Bureau of Economic Analysis tells us that total government spending at all levels has risen to 37% of gross domestic product today
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July 24, 2011 The Beltway Industry Full-Time Employment Act By Michelle Malkin 7/22/2011 Dodd-Frank, the 2,300-page financial “reform” monstrosity spearheaded by Capitol Hill corruptocrats, turned 1 this week. It made too-big banks bigger. It made too-risky incentives riskier. It made a lousy economy lousier. Billed as a “consumer protection” act, Dodd-Frank has succeeded phenomenally —
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