NOVEMBER 30, 2011 The Congressman from Fannie Mae retires. It is a newspaper truism that what is good for journalism is bad for the country, and vice versa. Let’s just say that regarding the pending retirement of Congressman Barney Frank, we’re delighted to make the professional sacrifice. Few House Members have made a bigger legislative […]
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Calls on agencies not to discriminate By Cheryl Wetzstein – The Washington Times Monday, October 31, 2011 Increasing LGBT marriages mean “we have a great opportunity to place children without a family into happy homes,” Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand says. (Associated Press) For the first time in Senate history, a bill has been introduced to
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NOVEMBER 28, 2011 Ms. Jackson’s agency takes over automobile design. Here’s one good way to consider the vote in 2012: It’s about whether to re-elect President Lisa Jackson, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, which these days runs most the U.S. economy. The EPA heaved its weight against another industry this month, issuing a
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A RALLY IN WASHINGTON STATE BY TEA PARTY ADVOCATES TO STOP THE U.N. BY DEFUNDING
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By Chris Cox 9:41 AM 10/11/2011 Nearly three years into President Obama’s first term in office, Michelle Obama finally said something with which I can agree. At a recent fundraiser for President Obama’s re-election campaign in Providence, Rhode Island, the first lady told her audience: “We stand at a fundamental crossroads for our country. You’re
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NOVEMBER 26, 2011 ‘The New Tammany Hall’ The historian of the American city on what Wall Street and the ‘Occupy’ movement have in common, and how government unions came to dominate state and local politics. By MATTHEW KAMINSKI New York ‘What has the country so angry,” says Fred Siegel, “is the sense that crony capitalism
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Sat, Nov 26, 2011 By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Democrats are unanimous in charging that the debt-reduction supercommittee collapsed because Republicans refused to raise taxes. Apparently, Republicans are in the thrall of one Grover Norquist, the anti-tax campaigner, whom Sen. John Kerry called “the 13th member of this committee without being
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NOVEMBER 25, 2011 The NLRB Putsch The labor agency tries to ram through quickie union elections. The descent of the National Labor Relations Board from independent referee to a wholly owned AFL-CIO subsidiary is speeding up. Now its two Democratic appointees are attempting to ram through a new rule requiring quickie organizing elections, with barely
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NOVEMBER 25, 2011 Stringing Up Gibson Guitar Environmentalists and trade protectionists set a trap for American businesses. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL On a sweltering day in August, federal agents raided the Tennessee factories of the storied Gibson Guitar Corp. The suggestion was that Gibson had violated the Lacey Act—a federal law designed to protect wildlife—by
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