REAL CLEAR POLITICS June 27, 2011 Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama Is Profoundly Aloof By Michael Barone EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:Sometimes it seems he’s president of the AFL-CIO, not the U.S.A. The man who said he wanted to double exports in five years has nothing to say about his National Labor Relations Board appointee’s attempt to […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What America needs is a better class of left-winger. David Gelernter June 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The outrage of the left can turn into nihilism, meanness, hatred; and has. We know all about what Obamacrats don’t like. It’s time for them to ask
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Fred Barnes June 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 The Obama administration is 0-for-3 in meeting economic expectations. In 2009, President Obama and his advisers believed the bountiful stimulus package would give the economy a strong jolt. It didn’t, and still hasn’t. In 2010, Obama declared Recovery Summer and
JUNE 22, 2011 World War II created confidence in large institutions and big government. But few would want the cultural conformity of the mid-20th century back. By MICHAEL BARONE There’s a longing on the left for the golden years of the 1940s, ’50s and early ’60s. Income distribution was significantly more egalitarian than it is
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NEW YORK TIMES June 15, 2011 As Number of Medicaid Patients Goes Up, Their Benefits Are About to Drop By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — The Obama administration injected billions of dollars into Medicaid, the nation’s low-income health program, as the recession deepened two years ago. The money runs out at the end of this month,
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JUNE 20, 2011 What the late Stephen Jay Gould could teach the FDA. By GREGORY CONKO On June 28, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a hearing to decide the fate of Avastin, a drug taken by thousands of women fighting late-stage breast cancer. Many of these women have pleaded for continued access
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June 16, 2011 Our Reactionary President ‹ By Victor Davis Hanson Barack Obama is the most reactionary president in the recent history of the United States. Obama seems intent on turning back the clock to the good old days of the 1960s and 1970s, when rigid political orthodoxy, not an open mind, once guided government.
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JUNE 17, 2011 The Canary in California In a safe Democratic district in California, GOP candidate Craig Huey comes out of nowhere to win a runoff spot in a special House election. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL In May, when Democrats pulled out a surprise victory in a special House election in New York, all the
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By BETSY McCAUGHEY June 15, 2011 Rep. Anthony Weiner announced this week that he’s seeking treatment for sexual “addiction” — mortifying in formation that a private person would want to keep to himself. But it soon may be difficult to keep any sensitive medical problem strictly between you and your doctor. The 2009 stimulus and
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By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press Wednesday, June 15, 2011 A North Carolina state government budget written by Republicans that cuts taxes, scales back environmental controls and trims courts and dozens of agencies became law Wednesday despite Democratic Gov. Beverly Perdue’s arguments it would eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. The two-year spending plan took
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