Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Fred Barnes June 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 The Obama administration is 0-for-3 in meeting economic expectations. In 2009, President Obama and his advisers believed the bountiful stimulus package would give the economy a strong jolt. It didn’t, and still hasn’t. In 2010, Obama declared Recovery Summer and […]
JUNE 22, 2011 World War II created confidence in large institutions and big government. But few would want the cultural conformity of the mid-20th century back. By MICHAEL BARONE There’s a longing on the left for the golden years of the 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s. Income distribution was significantly more egalitarian than it is
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JUNE 20, 2011 What the late Stephen Jay Gould could teach the FDA. By GREGORY CONKO On June 28, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a hearing to decide the fate of Avastin, a drug taken by thousands of women fighting late-stage breast cancer. Many of these women have pleaded for continued access
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June 16, 2011 Our Reactionary President ‹ By Victor Davis Hanson Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government.
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JUNE 17, 2011 The White House and Congress should agree to a hard cap on spending. James A. Baker III, Mr. Baker was President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of the Treasury from 1985-88. If the United States does not address its looming debt crisis, the cost of servicing the national debt will spiral out of control.
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JUNE 17, 2011 The longer banks hold rotten paper, the likelier a second financial crisis becomes. By John H. Cochrane And Anil Kashyap Greek debt is in trouble—again. After a month of dickering, it seems likely that the International Monetary Fund and the European Union will agree to roll over Greece’s debt so bondholders will
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JUNE 17, 2011 The Canary in California In a safe Democratic district in California, GOP candidate Craig Huey comes out of nowhere to win a runoff spot in a special House election. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL In May, when Democrats pulled out a surprise victory in a special House election in New York, all the
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By BETSY McCAUGHEY June 15, 2011 Rep. Anthony Weiner announced this week that he’s seeking treatment for sexual “addiction” — mortifying in formation that a private person would want to keep to himself. But it soon may be difficult to keep any sensitive medical problem strictly between you and your doctor. The 2009 stimulus and
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JUNE 15, 2011 At a time of crisis a wasteful federal agency gets $200 million more. By JIM DEMINT Long before there was President Obama’s stimulus, there was the Economic Development Administration. The EDA was created in 1965 with the same high-minded intent used to usher in the $814 billion stimulus bill in 2009. Set
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