Senator Burr Recognized as a Taxpayer Hero Yesterday, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) was recognized as a Taxpayer Hero by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) for his “willingness to stand up for American taxpayers” during the 111th Congress. Senator Burr received a 92 out of 100 percent in CCAGW’s 2009 Congressional Ratings system.
AUGUST 12, 2010 Washington vs. Paul Ryan What happens when a politician is more honest than his critics. The immune system of the modern body politic is nothing if not resilient, and this summer all of its antibodies seem to be trained on heretofore little known Congressman Paul Ryan. That makes this a particularly instructive
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AUGUST 11, 2010 The High Costs of Very Low Interest Rates Money that should be invested to create jobs is instead funding government debt, while worried consumers sit on the sidelines. By JOHN C. MICHAELSON The prevailing view among economists, policy makers and Federal Reserve Board governors is that a zero or near-zero short-term interest
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AUGUST 11, 2010 The Obsolescence of Barack Obama The magic of 2008 can’t be recreated, and good riddance to it. By FOUAD AJAMI Not long ago Barack Obama, for those who were spellbound by him, had the stylishness of JFK and the historic mission of FDR riding to the nation’s rescue. Now it is to
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HEUBUSCH: Remembering ‘Morning in America’ Tax cuts unleashed America’s renewal at home and abroad By John Heubusch – Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library The Washington Times July 28, 2010 Illustration: Reagan’s morning by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Over the eight years of the Reagan
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BACON: Emergence of unintended consequences Sold as affordable, health reform is already hurting consumers By James A. Bacon – The Washington Times Friday, July 23, 2010 Josh Dent is an early victim of Obamacare. The lanky, shaven-headed machine operator likes the medical insurance plan his employer, Acorn Signs, provides him. But under the newly enacted
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DEARE: Forgetting Mexico’s failures Dysfunctional economy has triggered migration northward By Craig A. Deare – The Washington Times Wednesday, July 28, 2010 I love Mexicans. Really. My first real kiss was with a Mexican girl – ah, Sofia. And my first … well, you get the idea. My best friend in the world is my
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Neither Roosevelt nor Reagan How Obama blew his opportunity. BY Noemie Emery August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 When he signed the health care reform bill earlier this year, Barack Obama gave progressives the prize they had aimed at for seven-plus decades, an event they compared to the
AUGUST 8, 2010 Richard Foster for President Medicare’s chief actuary vs. President Obama on the ObamaCare facts. There probably isn’t a worse job in Washington than Medicare trustee, unpaid Capitol Hill interns included. Every year the trustees issue the gravest warnings about entitlement spending and at best prompt a moment of brow-furrowing before the political
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Why I’m Not Hiring When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally’s pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. By MICHAEL P. FLEISCHER With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take
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