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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DECEMBER 19, 2010 The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom ‘Net neutrality’ sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented
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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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December 16, 2010 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive Public Employee Pension Debt Explodes By Karen McMahan RALEIGH — If government officials were forced to apply the same uniform accounting methods that private pension plan administrators must use to calculate liabilities, experts say the funding shortfall would be five times greater than the amount being reported
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The Omnibus Arrives 1:11 am December 15, 2010, by Jamie Dupree I have been talking about it for weeks, and yesterday it was finally released. A 1,924 page behemoth known in the lexicon of Capitol Hill as the “Omnibus” budget bill, chock full of thousands of home state budget earmarks. Even though it was championed
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Newsmax Romney: Tax Cut Deal No Jobs Fix Tuesday, December 14, 2010 The temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts that President Barack Obama and Republican members of Congress agreed to will not translate into large job growth or investment, and Congress should come up with a better deal, says former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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