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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JULY 30, 2010 A GOP Energy Alternative Calif. Rep. Devin Nunes’s nuclear proposal would do more to reduce carbon emissions than any Democratic plan on the table. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Out of the most tedious congressional debate sometimes comes a little ray of policy sunshine. The GOP got a glimmer this week. As congressional
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) One Job Forward, Two Jobs Back Another triumph of Obamanomics. BY Andrew B. Wilson July 19, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 41 The Great Obamanomic Job Creation Machine rumbled into action again over the Fourth of July weekend, promising to spend as much as $2 billion to support creation of 1,585
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JULY 9, 2010 The White House Gets Drilled How ideologically stacked is President Obama’s offshore drilling commission? So much that even many of his fellow Democrats can’t support it. Five Democrats on the Senate Energy Committee last week delivered an embarrassing rebuke to the White House, voting with Republicans to have Congress set up an
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FINANCIAL POST Avertible catastrophe Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post · Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010 Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality. The Dutch fall into the first group. Three
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD Beyond Pathetic BP’s Gulf disaster was no surprise to those who understood the corporate culture. BY Andrew B. Wilson June 28, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 39 Shortly after lunch on November 27, 2003, Oberon Houston was in his office beneath the helideck of BP’s Forties Alpha oil platform in the North Sea,
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The Antidrilling Commission The White House choices seem to have made up their minds. “Under my Administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over. . . To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy. . . I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, and not
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townhall.com February 13th, 2010 – Obama’s date of Infamy Kevin McCullough Sunday, June 20, 2010 Ok who’s ready for a new federal law? How ’bout this: “No one may run for President of the United States after previously only being elected to a state legislature and U.S. Senate with no chief executive experience.” Instead of
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Missing: a good repairman June 18, 2010 by Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON Barack Obama doesn’t do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely get himself through the pedestrian first half: a bit of BP-bashing,
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JUNE 16, 2010 Captains of Subsidy Famous CEOs plead for more energy cash from Washington. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: As it happens, some of these captains of industry have sunk billions of dollars into blue-sky energy investments that can’t succeed without the crutch of subsidies, mandates and carbon taxes. So now they’re asking Congress
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