WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Los Angeles At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the […]
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AUGUST 31, 2010 TARP and the Continuing Problem of Toxic Assets It was a bold bet that the Treasury and Fed could engineer an economic recovery without allowing the repricing of U.S. housing stock. By ANDY KESSLER We should have eaten those toxic assets instead of sweeping them under the carpet. The Troubled Asset Relief
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NEW YORK TIMES July 29, 2010 G.M.’s Electric Lemon U.S. Taxpayers send $150 million to Volt’s Korean Battery Supplier By EDWARD NIEDERMEYER Portland, Ore. GENERAL MOTORS introduced America to the Chevrolet Volt at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show as a low-slung concept car that would someday be the future of motorized transportation. It would go
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AUGUST 23, 2010 How States Hide Their Budget Deficits The SEC’s charges against New Jersey for misleading investors should warn other states against sweeping the truth under the rug. By STEVE MALANGA In April, the New York State Comptroller, Thomas DiNapoli, issued a damning report on the Empire State’s financial practices. Albany’s budgets, he observed,
AUGUST 24, 2010 Virginia Is for Surpluses Erasing red ink without a tax increase. Here’s something you don’t see often these days: a government running a budget surplus. Governor Robert McDonnell announced last week that Virginia closed fiscal 2010 some $400 million in the black. That’s a radically improved financial picture from a year ago
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Senator Burr Recognized as a Taxpayer Hero Yesterday, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) was recognized as a Taxpayer Hero by the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) for his “willingness to stand up for American taxpayers” during the 111th Congress. Senator Burr received a 92 out of 100 percent in CCAGW’s 2009 Congressional Ratings system.
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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