January 17, 2013 Notable & Quotable Barack Obama addressing the Senate in 2006 about why he opposed efforts to increase America’s debt limit. Then-Sen. Barack Obama, in a speech on the Senate floor, March 16, 2006: Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today […]
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January 12, 2013 Marco Rubio: Riding to the Immigration Rescue Marco Rubio, Florida’s GOP senator, unveils his reform ideas to ‘modernize’ the system and put illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI Coral Gables, Fla. Marco Rubio—41-year-old son of working-class Cuban exiles—has lived the upwardly mobile immigrant experience. In his fast
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January 11, 2013 Sandy Relief by the (Remarkable) Numbers The $61 billion proposal translates to $69 million per linear mile of coastline from Maryland to Maine. By LARRY HARRIS President Obama asked Congress for $61 billion for various relief programs following Hurricane Sandy. The Senate approved the full request late last month, but so
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January 11, 2013 Rivkin and Casey: The Myth of Government Default The Constitution commands that public debts be repaid. There is no such obligation to fund entitlement programs. By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE A. CASEY EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: …..since the federal government’s roughly $200 billion in tax revenue per month is
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Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Tue, Jan 08, 2013 Memo to Obama: Make more millionaires to tax By Thomas L. Friedman – The New York Times The U.S. military trains its fighter pilots on a principle called the “OODA Loop.” It stands for observe, orient, decide, act. The idea is that
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January 7, 2013 The Education of John Boehner Leverage for the next clash: GOP willingness to let the spending sequester take effect. By STEPHEN MOORE What stunned House Speaker John Boehner more than anything else during his prolonged closed-door budget negotiations with Barack Obama was this revelation: “At one point several weeks ago,” Mr.
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January 4, 2013 The Outrageous Sandy Outrage EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Look at some of what was in the $60 billion bill: $150 million for Alaskan fisheries; $2 million for roof repair at the Smithsonian in Washington; and about $17 billion for liberal activists under the guise of “community development” funds and so-called social
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January 5, 2013 There’s No ‘I’ in ‘Kumbaya’ Obama doesn’t seem to have it in him to make a deal. By PEGGY NOONAN We’re all talking about Republicans on the Hill and their manifold failures. So here are some things President Obama didn’t do during the fiscal cliff impasse and some conjecture as to
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January 3, 2013 Fred Barnes: The President Who Wants It All The essence of bipartisan deals is win-win: Both sides are satisfied. Obama’s approach is he alone wins. By FRED BARNES President George W. Bush made bipartisan deals with Democrats on education, energy and, shortly before leaving office, the bank bailout known as TARP.
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) First Among Freshmen Ann Wagner, House class of 2012. Kyle Huwa December 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 15 Ann Wagner will be sworn in next month to her first elected office. But the congresswoman-elect from Missouri, who won Todd Akin’s suburban St. Louis district in November, is hardly
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