Las Vegas Review Journal May 21, 2010 EDITORIAL: Washington will take care of you Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered a new defense of her party’s unpopular health care reforms: They guarantee coverage for the next generation of dropout hippies and starving artists. Speaking at a Washington event, Rep. Pelosi, D-Calif., gushed that the […]
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MAY 21, 2010 Republicans And Obama’s New Deal By PETER J. WALLISON In the rapturous days after Barack Obama’s victory and the Democratic congressional sweep that accompanied it, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank declared that the new Congress would enact a “new New Deal.” Few people really thought at the time that he
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The New Fat Cats The indefensible pensions of public-sector employees. BY Fred Barnes May 3, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 31 John Edwards was right. There are two Americas, just not his two (the rich and powerful versus everyone else). The real divide today is, on one side, the 20 million people who work for state
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Washington Examiner Barbara Hollingsworth: Fannie Mae owns patent on residential ‘cap and trade’ exchange By: Barbara Hollingsworth Local Opinion Editor April 20, 2010 When he wasn’t busy helping create a $127 billion mess for taxpayers to clean up, former Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines, two of his top underlings and select individuals in
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MAY 3, 2010 Free Speech for Some Unions get a pass from new campaign finance disclosure rules. Democrats in Congress last week introduced White House-backed legislation that would indirectly reinstate free-speech restrictions that the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional in January. Backers say the measure will force disclosure of corporate money in politics, but the real
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latimes.com America’s lead weight Unions have benefited the country, but changes in the economy have made mainstream unionism itself an impediment to growth. Robert “Mickey” Kaus May 3, 2010 Do you have to love labor unions to be a good Democrat? That was the question raised last year by the unpopular bailouts of unionized Detroit
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Thoughts on Gorism Posted By Victor Davis Hanson On May 2, 2010 From the Sanctimonious to the Ridiculous I think sometime this year elite radical environmentalism died. And at about the same time perished also the notion of the man in the mansion as the man on the barricades. Let me explain. Gorism We all
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Republicans, Democrats & Israel By Caroline Glick Bipartisan support for Israel has been one of the greatest casualties of US President Barack Obama’s assault on the Jewish state. Today, as Republican support for Israel reaches new heights, support for Israel has become a minority position among Democrats. Consider the numbers. During Operation Cast Lead –
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APRIL 23, 2010 Liberals and the Violence Card By RUSH LIMBAUGH The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused “loud and angry voices” on the airwaves (i.e., radio talk-show hosts like me)
APRIL 22, 2010 The GOP and the Politics of Financial Reform By KARL ROVE Excerpt From Article: ” There are other potential pitfalls for Democrats in Mr. Dodd’s bill. One is a provision that would create an Office of Financial Research that would receive half a billion dollars a year to gather information on individual
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