Big Government

BERWICK SETS UP DEATH PANELS BY FIAT

The American Spectator By Jeffrey Lord on 12.28.10 “If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” — Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Sarah Palin was right. John Boehner — make that Speaker-elect of the House John Boehner — was right. While Americans were busy celebrating

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EURO TRASHED

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Europe’s rendezvous with monetary destiny Christopher Caldwell December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 It has been easy to snicker in recent weeks at the politicians who designed the euro, which appears on the verge of collapse after a decade as the common currency of a dozen countries in

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DELTA’S WORKERS TURN AWAY FROM UNIONS DESPITE OBAMA’S HEAVY HAND

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Obama Team’s Other Lost Election Despite the administration’s thumb on the scale, Delta doesn’t unionize. Fred Barnes December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 President Obama has done more favors, more often, for organized labor than any other president, outpacing even FDR and Harry Truman in the lightning

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RAILING AGAINST BIG GOVERNMENT – OHIO AND WISCONSIN

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Ohio’s John Kasich and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker said no to Obama. But the taxpayer didn’t win. Stephen F. Hayes December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 When Wisconsin voters elected Scott Walker governor in November, they did so in no small measure because of his pledge to kill a

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OBAMACARE – CONGRESS’S MONSTROUS LEGAL LEGACY

DECEMBER 24, 2010 Congress’s Monstrous Legal Legacy Put together like Frankenstein, ObamaCare risks coming apart at the seams. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The historians will long be fighting over the legislative legacy of the 111th Congress. As to its legal legacy, the only real question is whether this just-finished Democratic Congress was the most unserious

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PROGRESSIVES? NO, LIBERALS ARE ‘FRIENDLY FASCISTS’

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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END-OF-LIFE COVERAGE TO BEGIN – QUIETLY

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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