November 1, 2011 By John Ransom 10/31/2011 A financially-troubled Canadian alternative energy company with ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid paid a director the lion’s share of $758,828 (CAD) in reported consulting fees, according to an analysis of the filings made by the company. The fee was a part of a consulting agreement in order to […]
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Paul Ryan on the Perry Plan: ‘I Can Tell You This: It Would Grow The Economy’ By Avik Roy Posted on October 26, 2011 3:11 PM In a conference call today sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, Paul Ryan answered some questions regarding the Perry plan for an optional flat tax. Ryan
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Decline and Fall The arc of the Obama presidency bends towards failure. Peter Wehner August 29, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 46 Now more than halfway through his third year in office—with the economy flat-lining, American prestige evaporating, and public anxiety spiking—Barack Obama is the most vulnerable incumbent president since
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AUGUST 18, 2011 By ALICIA MUNDY Texas Gov. Rick Perry, under questioning from voters in recent days, has switched positions on a 2007 executive order he issued mandating the vaccination of all young girls before they enter sixth grade to ward off cervical cancer. Mr. Perry’s order that Texas school girls receive the vaccine, Gardasil,
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Published on Washington Examiner (http://washingtonexaminer.com) By Timothy P. Carney Jun 14 2011 – If your goal were to foster more political cronyism, reward lobbyists, entrench incumbents, enrich the politically connected, and get the revolving door spinning faster, you would have a hard time crafting a more useful piece of legislation than the Dodd-Frank financial regulation
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MARCH 4, 2011 If these outfits can afford to pay lavish salaries to their heads, they don’t need taxpayer help. By JIM DEMINT When presidents of government-funded broadcasting are making more than the president of the United States, it’s time to get the government out of public broadcasting. While executives at the Public Broadcasting Service
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Rites of Initiation Will the freshman Republicans earn ‘strange new respect’? Fred Barnes November 29, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 11 The newly elected House Republicans, that hardy band of conservatives, are in for a rude surprise. But not yet. The press and other branches of the Washington establishment will
NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Some born again reformers were once the company’s defenders. A major task for the next Congress will be rewriting the laws governing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and House Republicans have now won a seat at that table. Which makes it all the more important that their seat not be occupied by
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Real Israel Lobby It’s the American people. William Kristol October 18, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 05 Now we know who constitutes the real Israel lobby: the American public. Especially the Republican-leaning part of it. Consider the results of a new poll, a survey of 1,000 likely voters, conducted
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Did You Get My Message? Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton makes a phone call. September 27, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 02 House D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton left an interesting voicemail on a lobbyist’s answering machine a couple of weeks ago: This is, uh, Eleanor Norton. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
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