WASHINGTON POST Posted at 11:45 AM ET, 07/17/2011 Interview: Margaret Hoover, the GOP’s and the millennials By Jennifer Rubin Margaret Hoover, a great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, is a regular figure on cable news and a veteran of the George W. Bush campaign. Her new book, American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can
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JULY 16, 2011 The unavailability of beer, cigarettes and fishing licenses seemed to annoy them the most. By DAVID STROM Minneapolis What if they had a government shutdown and nobody cared? That about sums up what’s just happened in Minnesota. The fiscal year ended on June 30, and since then all but “essential” services of
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July 19, 2011 By Star Parker 7/11/2011 The New York Magazine headline reads: You Can Thank a Few Rich Libertarians for Gay Marriage. The story is that a million dollar contribution by several rich Republican hedge fund operators, “ inclined to see the issue as one of personal freedom, consistent with their libertarian views,” was
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FACE THE NATION INTERVIEW – July 2011
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JULY 16, 2011 The HHS rule for state health markets will mean fewer choices. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: HHS, unsurprisingly, envisions the exchanges as 50 (or more) new regulatory agencies designed to let politics run health markets, while letting Washington give orders to the states. The word “require” appears 811 times in the 244-page rule
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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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WALL STREET JOURNAL JULY 15, 2011 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking heat from some in his caucus for “caving” on debt-limit talks. They might instead be thanking him for finally laying out the real choice Republicans face in this debate: 2012 or 2010. Put another way: With President Obama
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Fri, Jul 15, 2011 BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?” How about last December, when he ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations? How about February, when he presented a budget
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July 15, 2011 By David Limbaugh 7/15/2011 Ordinarily, I’d have difficulty grasping the magnitude of arrogance driving President Obama in budget negotiations that could determine the survival of our nation, but after several painful years of observation, I’ve come to expect it from him.Obama’s personality type does not well handle opposition, so when House Majority
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