Our growing public restlessness THE WASHINGTON TIMES IN SEARCH OF SELF-GOVERNANCE By Scott W. Rasmussen CreateSpace, $14, 76 pages Reviewed by Wes Vernon ”Never pass major legislation that affects most Americans without real bipartisan support. [Otherwise] It opens the door to all kinds of political trouble.” Who do you think said that? Some Republican congressman […]
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CNSNews.com Sen. Shelby: Financial Reform Violates Privacy Friday, May 07, 2010 By Matt Cover, Staff Writer Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), senior Republican on the Senate Banking Committee (CNSNews.com) – Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), senior Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, said that provisions in the new financial regulatory bill violate privacy rights by allowing the
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Wall Street Journal MAY 4, 2010 What About Fan and Fred Reform? By ROBERT G. WILMERS Congress may be making progress crafting new regulations for the financial-services industry, but it has yet to begin reforming two institutions that played a key role in the 2008 credit crisis—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We cannot reform these
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MAY 4, 2010 Democrats at Ramming Speed By FRED BARNES President Reagan had a sign on his desk that said, “It’s amazing how much you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.” If President Obama had a sign, it would say, “It’s amazing how much you can accomplish if you don’t care
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Our Country’s Battles We have today an aging and shrinking Air Force and Navy, an Army that is overstretched, reserve forces that are far too ‘active’ in their rate of deployment, and too few dollars to rebuild and modernize. BY Gary Schmitt and William Kristol May 3, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 31 It is increasingly
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Leading the charge for GOP insurgents By Marc A. Thiessen Tuesday, May 4, 2010; SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. Santa Barbara is about as far from Greenville, S.C., as you can get in the continental United States, but Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) cares more about principle than geography. He is leading a conservative insurgency across America. Speaking
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MAY 3, 2010 Free Speech for Some Unions get a pass from new campaign finance disclosure rules. Democrats in Congress last week introduced White House-backed legislation that would indirectly reinstate free-speech restrictions that the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in January. Backers say the measure will force disclosure of corporate money in politics, but the real
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The Global Reform Dodge John Steele Gordon – 05.03.2010 – 10:00 AM The original personal income tax law, passed in 1913, was only 14 pages long. Even the income tax law of 1942, which changed the tax from one on the affluent to include the middle class as well (and began withholding), was only 208
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APRIL 28, 2010 Senators vs. Goldman The committee members fumble toward finding the real villains. If an investor buys shares in General Electric, and then GE’s stock declines in the future, is the New York Stock Exchange to blame? What if the investor chooses to purchase the shares through TD Ameritrade or Charles Schwab? Is
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