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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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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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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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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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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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Pretentiousness Kills Lessons from the corrupt prosecution of Geert Wilders Sam Schulman November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Since January, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Beach Boy-haired founder and leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), has been on trial in Amsterdam for inciting hatred against Muslims and Holland’s
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TOWNHALL.COM Dennis Prager November 2010 According to polls — Pew Research Center, the National Science Foundation — and studies such as Professor Arthur Brooks’ Gross National Happiness, conservative Americans are happier than liberal Americans. Liberals respond this way: “If we’re unhappier, it’s because we are more upset than conservatives over the plight of those less
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Speaking Truth to Mullah Power At a conclave of big shots, Lindsey Graham steals the show. Tod Lindberg November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Halifax, Nova Scotia On a dangerously windy early November afternoon, a military plane carrying a delegation of six U.S. senators made four successive approaches
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About Senator Burr | Constituent Services | Contact Me | Share with a Friend Before getting into what we worked on in Washington this week, I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family of Elizabeth Edwards. She was a passionate advocate for issues she believed in and a caring and loving mother.
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