AUGUST 30, 2011 Dick Cheney’s Wars: The Former Vice President on 9/11, Iraq and the Future Following are excerpts from former Vice President Dick Cheney’s new memoir, “In My Time,” published by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. In the first excerpt, Mr. Cheney describes his advice to President George W. Bush […]
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FOX NEWS segment in 2008 – Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank block Fannie and Freddie reform
AUGUST 9, 2011 Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The downgrade uproar and even the market turmoil are signs that Americans aren’t about to accept economic decline gracefully. To adapt a famous phrase, a debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste During yesterday’s market meltdown, an old
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AUGUST 9, 2011 A case study in stupid is as stupid does. By BRET STEPHENS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Then there is Mr. Obama as political tactician. He makes predictions that prove false. He makes promises he cannot honor. He raises expectations he cannot meet. He reneges on commitments made in private. He surrenders positions
Newsmax Limbaugh on Market Collapse: Obama Engineering the Decline of America Monday, August 8, 2011 06:17 PM By: Jim Meyers Top-rated talk radio host Rush Limbaugh finds a “silver lining” in the downgrading of America’s credit rating: There no longer is any doubt that President Barack Obama can be roundly defeated in 2012. “Obamageddon —
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August 2011 Dear Yankee Eight things you ought to know before you start writing stories about Rick Perry. You’re welcome. by Paul Burka Here we go again. As you know, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, is contemplating a presidential run, which means that any day now, your boss will be sending you down here
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JULY 28, 2011 The Road to a Downgrade A short history of the entitlement state. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Many on the left still blame Ronald Reagan, but the debt increase in the 1980s financed a robust economic expansion and victory in the Cold War. Debt held by the public at the end of the
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JULY 26, 2011 Price controls on Part D drugs would cripple medical innovation and undermine a successful federal entitlement program. By TOMAS J. PHILIPSON Medicare Part D, the prescription-drug benefit program for seniors, has cost the federal government considerably less than was initially estimated. It’s also overwhelmingly popular among beneficiaries. But in Washington, Part D
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JULY 26, 2011 Show Me the Steel Many ask if a president is smart. The better question: Is he a man of courage? By WILLIAM MCGURN If you’ve worked in the Bush administration, sooner or later the question comes: How smart is he? Sometimes the question is snarky. Sometimes it’s sincere. Always it comes freighted
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JULY 15, 2011 The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating. So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917. As painfully ironic as this is, there’s no benefit
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