March 17, 2011 By F. Owen Smith America has become dependent on social steroids, the kind pushed under the street-name HGH, standing for Huge Government Handouts. The steroid metaphor is so aptly drawn as to make it irresistible, so with your permission I’ll develop it. Hold a photograph of the Twenties strongman Charles Atlas next
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Environmental activists have yet to meet an energy project they won’t try to stop. Adam J. White February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 “Sputnik” was not the only nostalgic moment in the State of the Union address. When President Obama called on Congress to “invest” in “clean energy
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Runaway Trains Obama’s high-speed rail plan is a fiscal pipedream. We suppose every President is entitled to a pipedream, but President Obama’s vow in his State of the Union address that 80% of Americans should have access to high-speed rail in 25 years is a doozy. Vice President Joe Biden has followed
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February 10, 2011 Jerry Brown: A Modern-Day Sisyphus By Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare. Take unemployment. It currently runs 12.6
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JANUARY 20, 2011 Unless the party confronts its allies in the public-employee unions, it will continue to lose credibility with voters around the country. By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN There is a crisis in state and municipal finance. That much is clear. What hasn’t been fully understood is that the fate of the Democratic Party is
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Victor Davis Hanson December 15, 2010 12:00 P.M. Abandoned farms, Third World living conditions, pervasive public assistance — welcome to the once-thriving Central Valley. The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially,
THE GAME JANUARY 4, 2011 By DENNIS K. BERMAN Land values soared. States splurged on new programs. Then it all went bust, bringing down banks and state governments with them. This wasn’t America in 2011, it was America in 1841, when a now-forgotten depression pushed eight states and a desolate territory called Florida into the
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Mallory Factor interviews Republican California Congressman, Tom McClintock
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What explains the ‘reverse tsunami?’ Fred Barnes December 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 13 Palo Alto The election in California didn’t turn out as poorly as you might think. An $18 car fee, the proceeds going to spruce up parks, was voted down. So was an attempt to repeal
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. No Bailout For California by Joseph Farah Nov 2010 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: California actually sent more Democrats to Washington in 2010 than they did in 2008. How bad was it? One state Senate race in particular kind of illustrates California’s political myopia — the one in which Democratic candidate Jenny Oropeza defeated Republican
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