AUGUST 12, 2010 Washington vs. Paul Ryan What happens when a politician is more honest than his critics. The immune system of the modern body politic is nothing if not resilient, and this summer all of its antibodies seem to be trained on heretofore little known Congressman Paul Ryan. That makes this a particularly instructive
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AUGUST 8, 2010 Richard Foster for President Medicare’s chief actuary vs. President Obama on the ObamaCare facts. There probably isn’t a worse job in Washington than Medicare trustee, unpaid Capitol Hill interns included. Every year the trustees issue the gravest warnings about entitlement spending and at best prompt a moment of brow-furrowing before the political
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WALL STREET JOURNAL AUGUST 5, 2010 The Great Guy Theory of History Charlie Rangel forgot that America’s voters want more than a great guy. By DANIEL HENNINGER We consider today the sad case of Charlie Rangel, the beloved 20-term Congressman from New York City. You’ve probably heard of the Great Man Theory of History. The
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER Shirley Sherrod’s Disappearing Act: Not So Fast By: Tom Blumer Special to The Examiner 07/20/10 1:52 PM EDT My oh my, that happened quickly. Perhaps too quickly. Until yesterday, Shirley Sherrod was Georgia Director of Rural Development for the USDA. Earlier in the day at Big Government, Andrew Breitbart put up a video that
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Think Big Republicans should embrace Paul Ryan’s Road Map. BY Fred Barnes July 19, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 41 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: As ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, Ryan was able to get the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to run the numbers in his plan. CBO
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HAVE WE THE WILL TO CUT SPENDING? by: Cal Thomas Examiner Columnist July 15, 2010 A gloomy picture of the economy was painted last weekend by the co-chairmen of President Obama’s Debt and Deficit Commission when they appeared at the closing session of the National Governors Association meeting in Boston. Former Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan
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JULY 10, 2010 Robert Byrd’s Highways to Nowhere Government pork hasn’t made West Virginia prosperous. By BRIAN BOLDUC ‘His heart belonged to you,” President Obama told the hundreds of West Virginians who attended Robert Byrd’s funeral last week. “Making life better here was his only agenda.” Maybe so. But despite the $4 billion in pork
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD Ride Along with Mitch Can the astonishing popularity of Indiana’s penny-pinching governor carry him to the White House in 2012? BY Andrew Ferguson June 14, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 37 Indianapolis When Mitch Daniels ran for governor of Indiana in 2004, a friend and videographer got the idea of filming the candidate
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Washington Times May21, 2010 Sidetracking the Gravy Tain If you are an elected official, and you have to make a choice between raising taxes on your constituents or cutting the number of government employees and their salaries, what would you do? For most of the last few decades, in most places, the politicians would just
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Washington Times Government Workers Run Up Federal Credit Cards Without Penalty By Matthew Cella Friday, May 21, 2010 An investigation that found thousands of dollars in unauthorized purchases of clothing, gold coins, flat-screen televisions, gym memberships and college tuition payments by employees of the Federal Protective Services using government purchase cards has resulted in no
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