SEPTEMBER 21, 2011 Barney Frank’s Fed Packing Plan A proposal to punish the hard-money regional bank presidents. Among Washington’s modern ironies is that liberals think a Federal Reserve that is increasingly a creature of the White House and Congress has too much independence. So along comes Barney Frank with a plan to make the central
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Liberals believe the darnedest things. Jeff Bergner September 12, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 48 Sometimes talking with liberals is perplexing. You never know what claim they will make next or what name they will call you. Take David Axelrod’s response to Standard & Poor’s recent credit action: He calls
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 The president’s own economic words are coming back to haunt him.By STEPHEN MOORE Barack Obama now faces perhaps his most politically crippling deficit of all: a credibility deficit. That observation is reflected in the latest Bloomberg poll, which finds that on the heels of his big jobs speech last Thursday night, more
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Daniel Halper September 16, 2011 Congressman Mike Rogers delivered this coherent, Reaganesque defense of defense this morning at the American Enterprise Institute: The Evolution of American Intelligence and National Security in the Decade since 9/11 A Keynote Address by Representative Mike Rogers (R-MI) Thank you all very much; thank
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The president’s stimulus do-over: This time he heeded the warnings President Obama’s jobs speech to Congress, writes Ross Douthat, outlined what should have been the original economic blueprint: a short-term stimulus highlighted by a payroll tax cut, a medium-term push to overhaul the tax code and a plan for long-term entitlement reform. By Ross Douthat
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Published September 14, 2011 | FoxNews.com NASA The global warming theory left him out in the cold. Dr. Ivar Giaever, a former professor with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the 1973 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, abruptly announced his resignation Tuesday, Sept. 13, from the premier physics society in disgust over its officially stated
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson September 14, 2011 4:00 A.M. When Obama stands up to speak, he faces a collective “Been there, done that.” Ex-president George W. Bush with accustomed candor once shrugged after the end of his eight-year presidency, “People were kind of tired of me.” That ennui happens eventually
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Michael Warren September 14, 2011 5:43 PM Even as problems grow for Solyndra, the solar energy manufacturing firm that got a hefty stimulus-backed loan before going bankrupt earlier this month, the Department of Energy continues to issue large loans to companies. The Los Angeles Times reports on a newly
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