NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals […]
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Sen. Jim DeMint is offering Republicans a chance to prove they meant what they said on spending. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Republicans ran to midterm victory last week hitting every single high note. One week in, they risk ruining the aria with some off-key grunge. What issue could prove so important
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010, 4:09 P.M. ET For now: Extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal ObamaCare, support free trade. After 2012: Enact a flat tax, stabilize prices, balance the budget, give politicians incentive pay. By ARTHUR LAFFER Since its cyclical zenith in December 2007, U.S. economic production has been on its worst trajectory since the Great
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NEWS & OBSERVER Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 LONDON Britain announced the most radical overhaul in decades Thursday to its once-generous welfare system, pledging harsh penalties for those who refuse jobs and community work service for the unemployed in return for benefit checks. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced sharp changes to the country’s
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stephen F. Hayes November 11, 2010 4:45 PM Ben Smith has a good piece on John Thune’s vulnerabilities as a 2012 presidential candidate. Smith’s post raises the central question: Is Thune too “establishment” for the current political environment? That question is surfacing well before the start of real 2012
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The American Spectator Mitch the Knife By W. James Antle, III from the November 2010 issue The Weaver Popcorn Company’s website advertises this fact as a “kernel of truth”: their business was founded — and is still based in! — Indiana. But CEO Mike Weaver didn’t come to talk about microwave popcorn. At the moment,
THE ROCHE RECORD by Frank Roche, Economist November 8, 2010 LIBERTARIANS, GOLD BUGS, EXPORT COUNTRIES CONDEM FED ACTIONS An article was recently forwarded to me by a friend, who like many of us, is concerned about the state of our economy today, and increasingly alarmed by the rhetoric coming from the media, Libertarians, gold standard advocates, and countries
From Self-Reliance to Servitude Published on October 21, 2010 by Edwin Feulner, Ph.D. We use a variety of yardsticks to judge whether our country is on the right track. Is inflation up? Has unemployment dropped? What’s the stock market doing today? Here’s another one: Are Americans, who have long prided themselves on their freedom and
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Devastation: GOP Picks Up 680 State Leg. Seats Thursday, November 04, 2010 NationalJournal ^ | 11/4/2010 | Jeremy P. Jacobs While the Republican gains in the House and Senate are grabbing the most headlines, the most significant results on Tuesday came in state legislatures where Republicans wiped the floor with Democrats. Republicans picked up 680
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In Iowa, voters’ anger sweeps out judges, too By A.G. Sulzberger / New York Times News Service Published: November 04. 2010 4:00AM PST DES MOINES, Iowa — An unprecedented vote to remove three Iowa Supreme Court justices who were part of the unanimous decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the state was celebrated by conservatives
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