JOHN HOOD’S DAILY JOURNAL By John Hood March 30, 2011 RALEIGH – With all due respect to my right-leaning friends who are diehard NC State or UNC fans, they should not let their affection for their favorite sports mascots obscure a deeper truth about themselves: they have little in common with wolves or sheep. Conservatives
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MARCH 29, 2011 A once-great American city today repels people of talent and ambition. By WILLIAM MCGURN If only Detroit could point to some natural disaster for its misfortunes. Within hours of the earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan, for example, President Obama called the prime minister to offer “whatever assistance is needed.” Likewise, when Hurricane
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New agency would blow billions on toll roads, windmills and solar panels By THE WASHINGTON TIMES– Wednesday, March 16, 2011 The last thing America needs right now is another government agency. Apparently, Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, doesn’t agree. On Tuesday, he announced his intention to establish the American Infrastructure Financing Authority (AIFA). President Obama
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CANADA FREE PRESS We owe Pete King a debt of gratitude for defying those who would have shut his hearings down The King Hearings were Taboo-Busters By Frank Gaffney Jr. Tuesday, March 15, 2011It is not everyday that Congress breaks a major taboo and, in so doing, performs a real service to the nation. Last Thursday,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen March 8, 2011 12:00 A.M. Impervious to Evidence Supporting failed programs is moral vanity.My friend E. J. Dionne Jr., a liberal columnist for the Washington Post, is a fine man with, I feel safe in asserting, a warm heart. But he betrays in a recent column a persistent failing
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Time for War Against Democrats’ Fiscal Sabotage by David Limbaugh (more by this author) Posted 03/13/2011 ET It is amazing that the American people would continue to elect Democratic politicians to national office, considering Democrats’ cynical disregard for the federal budget crisis. They aren’t even slightly serious about becoming part of the solution. Consider the Senate
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MARCH 26, 2011 The Incredible Ms. Warren The White House aide does a weak-little-regulator routine. The unofficial czar of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren, told Congress last week that her organization is “the most constrained and the most accountable agency in government,” and then repeated similar claims on CNBC Tuesday. If nothing
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by Bob Holland and Don Soifer The Washington Times Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Europe’s leaders seemingly have awakened from a long slumber to discover that state-sponsored multiculturalism threatens the fabric of their societies. Their somber conclusions should cause reflection by Americans about the potential threats to national identity here and how educational institutions could play
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By Thomas Sowell 3/8/2011 The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians. Nothing shows the utter cynicism of the unions and the politicians who do their bidding like the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” that
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NEWS&OBSERVER Last word in nuclear safety: Yucca BY RICK MARTINEZ – Correspondent March 24, 2011 It’s becoming increasingly clear that the biggest threat of uncontained radiation from Japan’s earthquake-induced nuclear-plant disaster lies in the spent fuel rods stored on site, not the active power plant cores. I don’t know if the prime minister can order
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