TYRRELL: New label for liberals They like ‘progressives,’ but ‘friendly fascists’ suits them better By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.– founder and editor-in-chief of the American Spectator The Washington Times December 8, 2010 The Great Denial continues. The liberals continue to labor under the assumption that nothing very bad happened in early November. They are still […]
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NEW YORK TIMES December 24, 2010 WASHINGTON When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Saturday. Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation,
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By James A. Bacon – The Washington Times December 8, 2010 BLOOMBERG Erskine Bowles (right) and Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of the president’s deficit commission, challenged the panel’s members to put aside partisan differences and agree to its tax and budget recommendations. America’s budget debate suffers from a failure of imagination. Deficit hawks warn that the
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August 15, 2010 The ‘Right to Health Care’ Can Be the Right to No Care By Deane Waldman If you read British newspapers, you know their universal health care system is cutting more and more services. There, everyone’s right to health care is becoming the right to no care. Do we want that in the
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DECEMBER 23, 2010 So the watchdog news outfit called PolitiFact has decided that its “lie of the year” is the phrase “a government takeover of health care.” Ordinarily, lies need verbs and we’d leave the media criticism to others, but the White House has decided that PolitiFact’s writ should be heard across the land and
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Hands off tomorrow’s Internet By Meredith Attwell Baker Tuesday, December 21, 2010; On Tuesday, in a party-line vote, the three Democratic commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will adopt “net neutrality” rules. The rules will give government, for the first time, a substantive role in how the Internet will be operated and managed, how
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DECEMBER 21, 2010 The Net Neutrality Coup The campaign to regulate the Internet was funded by a who’s who of left-liberal foundations. By JOHN FUND The Federal Communications Commission’s new “net neutrality” rules, passed on a partisan 3-2 vote yesterday, represent a huge win for a slick lobbying campaign run by liberal activist groups and
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner Taxpayer Dollars at Work By Katrina Trinko December 20, 2010 Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) released today his annual Wastebook, which details lavish government funding on obscure projects. “As you look at these examples, ask yourself: at a time when we are borrowing over $44,000 for every person in
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THE AMERICAN SPECATOR The Largest Selection of Liberal-baiting Merchandise on the Net! Feature America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations,
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