Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What America needs is a better class of left-winger. David Gelernter June 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The outrage of the left can turn into nihilism, meanness, hatred; and has. We know all about what Obamacrats don’t like. It’s time for them to ask […]
JUNE 22, 2011 World War II created confidence in large institutions and big government. But few would want the cultural conformity of the mid-20th century back. By MICHAEL BARONE There’s a longing on the left for the golden years of the 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s. Income distribution was significantly more egalitarian than it is
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JUNE 17, 2011 The Canary in California In a safe Democratic district in California, GOP candidate Craig Huey comes out of nowhere to win a runoff spot in a special House election. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL In May, when Democrats pulled out a surprise victory in a special House election in New York, all the
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JUNE 15, 2011 At a time of crisis a wasteful federal agency gets $200 million more. By JIM DEMINT Long before there was President Obama’s stimulus, there was the Economic Development Administration. The EDA was created in 1965 with the same high-minded intent used to usher in the $814 billion stimulus bill in 2009. Set
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Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Timothy P. Carney Jun 14 2011 – If your goal were to foster more political cronyism, reward lobbyists, entrench incumbents, enrich the politically connected, and get the revolving door spinning faster, you would have a hard time crafting a more useful piece of legislation than the Dodd-Frank financial regulation
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JUNE 11, 2011 ‘On the Beach, I Bring von Mises’ The tea party favorite on her start in politics, where she learned her economics, and why she disagrees with Reagan on the War Powers Resolution. By STEPHEN MOORE “If I’m in, I’ll be all in,” says Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, artfully dodging my question
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By James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, Published: June 9 Washington Post James A. Baker III was secretary of state from 1989 to 1992. Lee H. Hamilton is a former Democratic representative from Indiana who chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs With our country engaged in three critical military conflicts, the last thing that
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JUNE 3, 2011 Home Truths To keep itself politically bullet-proof, Fannie Mae paid competing lobbyists to sit on the sidelines. By JAMES FREEMAN Reckless Endangerment By Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner (Times Books, 331 pages, $30) ‘The American people realize they’ve been robbed. They’re just not sure by whom,” write Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
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