FEBRUARY 19, 2011 Who’s in charge of our political system—voters or unions? By JOHN FUND This week President Obama was roundly criticized, even by many of his allies, for submitting a federal budget that actually increases our already crushing deficit. But that didn’t stop him Thursday from jumping into Wisconsin’s titanic budget battle. He accused
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 The GOP’s fiscal leader explains why House Republicans will vote to reform Medicare and why the public is ready to listen. By PAUL A. GIGOT Washington Paul Ryan doesn’t look like the menacing sort. He’s amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 For a sense of the kind of Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood wants, start with its motto. By AYAAN HIRSI ALI, author of Infidel ‘Allah is our objective; the Prophet is our leader; the Quran is our law; Jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” So
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Unlike years past, the budget debates in the House were vigorous and democratic, not stage-managed by the leadership of the majority party. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Washington and Lincoln—those birthday boys—ought to be smiling. The 112th House of Representatives spent the week debating how to fund the rest of fiscal 2011. In
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PAJAMASMEDIA.COM By Victor Davis Hanson February 13, 2011 In times to come, the period between the failed campaign of John Kerry and the Democratic control of the Congress, coupled with the beginning of the successful surge, should be known as “The Insane Years.” This was the era in which Guantanamo was a gulag, renditions were
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) To Live and Die in Philadelphia The abortionist’s house of horrors. Joseph Bottum February 7, 2011, Dr. Gosnell was a little befuddled at his arraignment on January 20. Indicted for eight murders, the Philadelphia abortionist told the court that he understood the first count, a charge of third-degree murder
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) January 31, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 19 It’s often forgotten—although The Scrapbook certainly remembers—that Stephen Colbert’s famous excoriation of President Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner was only briefly about George W. Bush. It was actually part of an extended tribute to Helen Thomas, who was still
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Runaway Trains Obama’s high-speed rail plan is a fiscal pipedream. We suppose every President is entitled to a pipedream, but President Obama’s vow in his State of the Union address that 80% of Americans should have access to high-speed rail in 25 years is a doozy. Vice President Joe Biden has followed
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OBAMA’S BUDGET BLUFF By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on February 14, 2011 The Obama Administration and its acolytes on the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction commission are propagating the myth that it is Social Security and Medicare that are driving the deficit over $1.5 trillion. Discretionary spending, they plead, is but a tiny
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