Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The 2012 Ticket William Kristol April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Remember Barack Obama? He’s the president of the United States. As a candidate he promised hope and change. Now he defends the status quo. The fact that the status quo is clearly unsustainable doesn’t deter him. His […]
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BOSTON GLOBE Celebrating Romney’s true role April 18, 2011 + LAST WEEK, as they celebrated the fifth birthday of the state’s universal health care law, Democrats offered crocodile congratulations to Mitt Romney for his role in making the landmark statute a reality. Because that law served as the model for ObamaCare, it has become anathema
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Justice Paul Newby of the North Carolina Supreme Court was the guest speaker at the Chapel Hill Republican Women’s luncheon on April 15, 2011. Justice Newby is running for reelection to the State Supreme Court in the upcoming 2012 election. Also speaking was Dan Forest, a well-known Charlotte architect who is also the son of
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APRIL 15, 2011, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA TEA PARTY – Laura Long introducing Bill Randall who will be a candidate for U.S. Congress in the 2012 election
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APRIL 14, 2011 The author of “Atlas Shrugged” was an individualist, not a conservative, and she knew big business was as much a threat to capitalism as government bureaucrats. By DONALD L. LUSKIN Tomorrow’s release of the movie version of “Atlas Shrugged” is focusing attention on Ayn Rand’s 1957 opus and the free-market ideas it
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APRIL 14, 2011 The president demonstrated again yesterday that he’s not serious about cutting spending. By KARL ROVE President Obama’s wild rhetorical gyrations have become familiar. Earlier this year, for example, he called budget cuts proposed by House Republicans “extreme,” suggesting they hurt “our most vulnerable citizens.” Yet after agreeing to many of them last
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Senate Bill 8 – Charter Schools On Monday evening, Senate Bill 8, “An Act to Remove the Cap on the Number of Charter Schools,” passed the House by a vote of 68 – 51. Despite its unanimous support from Republicans and one courageous Democrat, changes to the charter school legislation have raised questions by some
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APRIL 12, 2011 The president would have shut down government over Planned Parenthood funding. By WILLIAM MCGURN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Most Americans, it is probably safe to say, have no idea that we are talking about an organization that performed 332,278 abortions in 2009—one abortion every 95 seconds. Planned Parenthood counters that no federal
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APRIL 12, 2011 Regarding “The Southwest Border Is Open for Business” by Janet Napolitano and Gary Locke (op-ed, April 4): As a representative from a border district in New Mexico, I must take issue with claims by Secretaries Locke and Napolitano that things on the border are not as bad as they seem. The border
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