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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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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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THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE ABOUT THE NATIONAL DEBT

By James A. Bacon – The Washington Times    December 8, 2010 BLOOMBERG Erskine Bowles (right) and Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of the president’s deficit commission, challenged the panel’s members to put aside partisan differences and agree to its tax and budget recommendations. America’s budget debate suffers from a failure of imagination. Deficit hawks warn that the

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NET NEUTRALITY – FCC

Hands off tomorrow’s Internet By Meredith Attwell Baker Tuesday, December 21, 2010; On Tuesday, in a party-line vote, the three Democratic commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will adopt “net neutrality” rules. The rules will give government, for the first time, a substantive role in how the Internet will be operated and managed, how

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SENATOR COBURN’S LIST OF WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner Taxpayer Dollars at Work By Katrina Trinko December 20, 2010 Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) released today his annual Wastebook, which details lavish government funding on obscure projects. “As you look at these examples, ask yourself: at a time when we are borrowing over $44,000 for every person in

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AMERICA – THE RULING CLASS VERSUS THE COUNTRY CLASS

THE AMERICAN SPECATOR The Largest Selection of Liberal-baiting Merchandise on the Net! Feature America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations,

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THE GOP’S CALIFORNIA BLUES

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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NEW START TREATY

DECEMBER 21, 2010 New Start’s Old Illusions The arms treaty is irrelevant to today’s nuclear proliferation. The Obama Presidency wouldn’t have been complete without an arms-control treaty. Since at least the Kellogg-Briand pact in the 1920s, which outlawed war, it has been an article of faith in some circles that reasonable men everywhere could be

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FCC CONSTRAINS THE INTERNET

DECEMBER 19, 2010 The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom ‘Net neutrality’ sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented

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