May 13, 2013 Ben Rhodes: Obama’s Fixer behind the Benghazi Cover-Up By Ed Lasky Barack Obama’s “Tower of Fabrications,” as Peter Wehner describes the Benghazi scandal, is beginning to crack. And that crack will soon reveal a central figure behind the cover-up, a man close to Barack Obama for years but generally unknown to
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April 28, 2013 Government as Entropy By Daniel Payne On May 15th, 1862, the thirty-seventh Congress passed into law the creation of the United States Department of Agriculture. Its purpose, as the law explained, was “to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general
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March 30, 2013 The Debt Bomb That Taxpayers Won’t See Coming State and local governments owe $7.3 trillion in promises they’ve made that were never approved by taxpayers. By STEVEN MALANGA Mr. Malanga is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. This column is adapted from a forthcoming issue of City Journal, where he
Pentagon has spent billions on doomed programs; cash looms large with budget cuts By Rowan Scarborough– The Washington Times Sunday, March 17, 2013 **FILE** The Pentagon, across the Potomac River from Washington, The Pentagon has squandered billions of dollars over the past two decades on weapon systems it never produced and on rosy cost
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Biden’s $459,388.65 Hotel Bill in London ‘Approximately 136 hotel rooms for 893 room nights.’ Jeryl Bier March 22, 2013 9:46 AM Vice President Biden and his entourage spent a little time in London in early February during his first foreign trip of the second term of the Obama administration. A document released today revealed
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March 11, 2013 Bjorn Lomborg: Green Cars Have a Dirty Little Secret Producing and charging electric cars means heavy carbon-dioxide emissions. By Bjorn Lomborg Mr. Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center in Washington, D.C., is the author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist” (Cambridge Press, 2001) and “Cool It” (Knopf, 2007) EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:
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March 8, 2013 The Drama Over, Time For Smart Budget Cuts Since 2002, total federal spending has increased nearly 89% while median household income has dropped 5%. By TOM COBURN Mr. Coburn is a Republican senator from Oklahoma. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Another source of potential savings is duplication of federal services, which accounts
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Hail Armageddon By Charles Krauthammer March 1, 2013 12:00 A.M. ‘The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told the Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.” Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2 percent —
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Economic Judgment Day Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth By Richard W. Rahn This article appeared in The Washington Times on January 22, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The Departments of Defense, State and Justice are authorized by the Constitution
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Newsmax Text of Sen. Marco Rubio’s GOP Response to Obama Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:34 PM By: The Associated Press The text of the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, as prepared for delivery by Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, and provided by the press office of the
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