May 02, 2011 By Randall Hoven Everyone wants to end subsidies to oil companies, from President Obama to John Boehner and Paul Ryan. My question was “What subsidies?” Remarkably enough, CNN Money provided the answer. It turns out that they are all tax “breaks.” I even hesitate to call them “breaks” because some of them […]
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Current Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 4.28.11 @ 6:09AM WASHINGTON — While inspecting the body politic, one encounters one clear sign that Liberalism is dead. It is the condition of our political discourse. Polite commentators note that the dialogue is “rancorous.” Some say toxic. Actually it is worse than
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APRIL 26, 2011, 10:30 A.M. ET Our auto industry took off because workers could choose whether or not to join a union. By LAMAR ALEXANDERMr. Alexander is a U.S. senator from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. He is also a former governor of Tennessee. The National Labor Relations Board has moved to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Saddled up and ready to go. John McCormack April 22, 2011 11:59 AM In his column today, Charles Krauthammer sizes up the potential GOP presidential candidates and concludes by noting there’s a chance Paul Ryan could end up running in 2012: Even less likely to run — the 2016 bench
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The status quo is far more ‘extreme’ than the Republican budget Yuval Levin April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Late last month, Senator Charles Schumer of New York led a conference call in which Senate Democrats briefed reporters about the ongoing budget battle. At the outset, unaware that
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As you are aware, devastating storms hit North Carolina last weekend causing a great degree of damage across a large part of the central and eastern regions of our state. As I have traveled to many of the areas most affected by Saturday’s storms, I have been shocked by some of the destruction I have
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The 2012 Ticket William Kristol April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Remember Barack Obama? He’s the president of the United States. As a candidate he promised hope and change. Now he defends the status quo. The fact that the status quo is clearly unsustainable doesn’t deter him. His
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APRIL 15, 2011 The Obama Growth Discount Policy matters. If Barack Obama matched Ronald Reagan’s post-recession recovery rate, 15.7 million more Americans would have jobs. By PHIL GRAMM Had the U.S. economy recovered from the current recession the way it bounced back from the other 10 recessions since World War II, our per-capita gross domestic
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