Founders’ spirit returns with Tea Party movement By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. The Washington Times January 5, 2011 New Year’s Day in Washington dawned gray, wet and cold. It was a perfect day for sightseeing, and so my wife and I decided to sightsee. We went to Mount Vernon, George Washington‘s home, named, incidentally, after
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Obama’s Rules Revelation The era of big regulation is over. Or is it? President Obama took to these pages yesterday to announce a new executive order to restore “balance” to federal regulation and root out rules that impede job creation and economic growth. If he means it, this will be one of
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Let’s scrap the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, end farm subsidies, and end urban mass transit grants, for starters. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE The primary economic challenge today is that our government spends too much money it doesn’t have, and it is involved in too many things
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BOOK REVIEW: Overtaxed and overregulated By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times January 3, 2011 FED UP! OUR FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA FROM WASHINGTON By Rick Perry Little, Brown and Company, $21.99, 220 pages Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in state history, is a constitutional scholar, a defender of free enterprise, a
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Victor Davis Hanson December 15, 2010 12:00 P.M. Abandoned farms, Third World living conditions, pervasive public assistance — welcome to the once-thriving Central Valley. The last three weeks I have traveled about, taking the pulse of the more forgotten areas of central California. I wanted to witness, even if superficially,
JANUARY 14, 2011 A proposal to ban regulation without representation. One of the most important political stories of 2011 will be regulation, as the backwash of the outgoing Congress hits the federal agencies and the White House drives its agenda via rule-making rather than democratic consent. Republicans are vowing to thwart these maneuvers, but the
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WASHINGTON POST By George F. Will Sunday, January 9, 2011; Consensus is scarce but almost everyone agrees with this: The government is dysfunctional and the Internet is splendid. But last month, the Democratic-controlled Federal Communications Commission, on a partisan 3-2 vote, did what a federal court says it has no power to do: It decided
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REDSTATE What Time Is It? It’s Time To Cheat Posted by Michael Hammond (Profile) Monday, January 10th at 10:00AM EST 17 Comments by Michael E. Hammond, former General Counsel Senate Steering Committee 1978-89. Senate Democrats in the 111th Congress got a lot of mileage from procedural cheating (fiscal and legislative) –- and from extorting concessions
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This is an incredible letter that Skip Stam received from one of his constituents which explains in detail exactly what the problems are that the small and large businesses in this country are facing. The American people and our representatives need to understand why our unemployment rate is staying so high. And to think, many people believe we need
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JANUARY 6, 2011 The Italy of Asia Japan’s entitlement dilemmas are a warning to Washington. Japanese politics is once again in turmoil, with the government’s approval ratings around 20%. Prime Minister Naoto Kan is trying to force out his rival within the Democratic Party of Japan, Ichiro Ozawa, which might boost his own popularity but
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