NOVEMBER 26, 2010 Harbinger in Hamtramck The bankruptcy lesson from a Detroit suburb. More bad news out of Michigan: Facing a $3 million deficit on its $18 million budget, the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck is seeking permission to file bankruptcy. Other towns may not be far behind. Hamtramck suffers from high unemployment and falling income, […]
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WALL STREET JOURNAL NOVEMBER 25, 2010 The Lamest Duck, Ever Harry Reid’s midterm strategy was a bust, and Democrats are now dealing with the consequences. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Not so long ago, the great fear was that the Democratic Party would return from its midterm drubbing to jam all manner of odious legislation through
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CAGW Launches New Nationwide Ad Campaign Watch CAGW’s New National Ad Campaign here! On October 21, 2010, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) unveiled a national ad addressing our country’s spending addiction, the dangers of relentless deficits, and the corrosive nature of our national debt. This new ad, which features a chilling look at one potential
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Our burgeoning budget and the politics of avoidance By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, November 22, 2010; America’s budget problem boils down to a simple question: How much will we let programs for the elderly displace other government functions – national defense, education, transportation and many others – and raise taxes to levels that would, almost
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THE ROCHE RECORD, by Frank Roche, economist November 22, 2010 GORE AGREES, CONSULAR ID’S, FONDLING YOU AND ME, PLUS SOME Gore now agrees about corn ethanol: Giving yet another speech on foreign soil (Athens this time) critical of the US, Al Gore came clean on corn ethanol. I’ll give him credit for admitting it, though to do so
This insightful article was written in June of 2010 and gives an in depth analysis of why the EU is experiencing economic problems with their single currency. A Predictable Crisis Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Europe’s single currency was bound to break down. Martin Feldstein June 14, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 37 The current
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By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on November 22, 2010 Does President Obama plan to move to the center in response to his overwhelming rejection at the polls on November 2nd? No way! Instead, he is moving to implement, through executive action, two of the most controversial items in his 2010 agenda
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It Can Happen Here Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) It Can Happen Here American government goes European Roger Kimball November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 The New Road to Serfdom A Letter of Warning to America by Daniel Hannan HarperCollins, 224 pp., $24.99 In September I was part of a conference in England
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Tod Lindberg November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 No, this is not going to be a full-blown exercise in the fiction genre of Alternative History: A minor adviser to the 2008 McCain presidential campaign chronicles the day-to-day ups and downs of the two eventful years following the American
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The stimulus pleas of the Obama administration fell on deaf ears in Berlin. Guess whose economy is growing faster. Christopher Caldwell November 8, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 08 “You won’t find a lot of Keynesians here,” explained one German economic policymaker in Berlin in September. That will not be
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