APRIL 14, 2011 The president demonstrated again yesterday that he’s not serious about cutting spending. By KARL ROVE President Obama’s wild rhetorical gyrations have become familiar. Earlier this year, for example, he called budget cuts proposed by House Republicans “extreme,” suggesting they hurt “our most vulnerable citizens.” Yet after agreeing to many of them last […]
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APRIL 17, 2011, 1:01 P.M. ET By ANDREW BROWNE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:The U.S. Federal Reserve has pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into the American economy, hoping to stimulate growth, but much of the liquidity has spilled into foreign markets as investors seek higher returns in faster-growing regions. The flood of money has also
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APRIL 11, 2011 By allowing borrowers to write off the interest on their mortgages, the IRS is incentivizing homeowners to drag out their payments for years. There’s a better way. By ARKADI KUHLMANN If the financial crisis revealed anything about homeownership in this country, it’s that “ownership” is too often a misnomer. Since the crisis
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APRIL 11, 2011 As a candidate, I learned how much potential campaign contributors fear incumbent retribution. By JAMES L. HUFFMAN In the debates about campaign-finance regulation and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision of last year, there seems to be widespread agreement on one thing: Public disclosure of political contributions is a good thing. That
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Daniel Halper April 13, 2011 4:16 PM House Budget chairman Paul Ryan just released the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on deficit reduction: “When the President reached out to ask us to attend his speech, we were expecting an olive branch. Instead, his speech was excessively
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) No hope, no change. Fred Barnes April 13, 2011 4:02 PM President Obama always lets you down. Just when you think he’s ready to deliver a lofty speech chocked with specifics on handling the spending and debt emergency, he offers up a hyper-partisan attack on the leading Republican proposal,
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APRIL 12, 2011 The president would have shut down government over Planned Parenthood funding. By WILLIAM MCGURN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Most Americans, it is probably safe to say, have no idea that we are talking about an organization that performed 332,278 abortions in 2009—one abortion every 95 seconds. Planned Parenthood counters that no federal
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APRIL 12, 2011 Regarding “The Southwest Border Is Open for Business” by Janet Napolitano and Gary Locke (op-ed, April 4): As a representative from a border district in New Mexico, I must take issue with claims by Secretaries Locke and Napolitano that things on the border are not as bad as they seem. The border
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