DECEMBER 24, 2010 Congress’s Monstrous Legal Legacy Put together like Frankenstein, ObamaCare risks coming apart at the seams. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The historians will long be fighting over the legislative legacy of the 111th Congress. As to its legal legacy, the only real question is whether this just-finished Democratic Congress was the most unserious […]
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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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NEW YORK TIMES December 24, 2010 WASHINGTON When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Saturday. Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation,
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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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DECEMBER 23, 2010 So the watchdog news outfit called PolitiFact has decided that its “lie of the year” is the phrase “a government takeover of health care.” Ordinarily, lies need verbs and we’d leave the media criticism to others, but the White House has decided that PolitiFact’s writ should be heard across the land and
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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) The Gates Legacy The Pentagon is not ready for the 21st century. But it’s not too late to change course. Jim Talent December 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 13 No one questions the contributions to national security of Defense Secretary Robert Gates or his skill at getting his way
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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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