OPINION MARCH 26, 2010 ObamaCare: Repeal, Replace or What? Editor’s Note: We asked five opponents of government-directed health care for their thoughts on our new health-care entitlement. Specifically: Now that ObamaCare is law, how should Republicans respond? Should they work to repeal some or all of it, and do they need to offer an alternative […]
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MARCH 27, 2010 ‘Basically an Optimist’—Still Gary Becker By PETER ROBINSON Stanford, Calif. ‘No, no. Not at all.” So says Gary Becker when asked if the financial collapse, the worst recession in a quarter of a century, and the rise of an administration intent on expanding the federal government have prompted him to reconsider his
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New York Times March 21, 2010 Op-Ed Contributor The Real Arithmetic of Health Care Reform By DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN Arlington, Va. ON Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office reported that, if enacted, the latest health care reform legislation would, over the next 10 years, cost about $950 billion, but because it would raise some revenues and lower
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Feeding the deficit’s appetite WASHINGTON As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh. With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-universal in Europe is inevitable. We are now $8 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects that another $12 trillion will be
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Mark Steyn Wednesday, 24 March 2010 All this week, in the wake of the health care bill, we’re looking back at some of my broader takes on the issue, and its implications. I think most of the points in this piece from last summer stand up pretty well: Health care is a game-changer. The permanent game-changer.
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MARCH 23, 2010 By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The gravest threat faced by the world today is a nuclear-armed Iran. Of all the nations capable of producing nuclear weapons, Iran is the only one that might use them to attack an enemy. There are several ways in which Iran could use nuclear weapons. The first is
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Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation GARY HUBBELL ASPEN TIMES WEEKLY Barack Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America’s future. He is the best thing ever. Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among
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MARCH 22, 2010 House Democrats last night passed President Obama’s federal takeover of the U.S. health-care system, and the ticker tape media parade is already underway. So this hour of liberal political victory is a good time to adapt the “Pottery Barn” rule that Colin Powell once invoked on Iraq: You break it, you own
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MARCH 23, 2010 In Holder’s Woes, a Déjà Vu Same Terror Issues Undermined the Career of Bush Attorney General Gonzales By EVAN PEREZ Eric Holder has spent much of his first year as attorney general trying to reverse a series of Bush administration policies. But the controversies provoked by his decisions threaten to derail his
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Saturday, March 13, 2010 Washington Times MY WASHINGTON TIMES OP-ED PIECE: WOLF: Obama family health care fracas By Dr. Milton R. Wolf “Primum nil nocere.” First, do no harm. This guiding principle is a bedrock of medical care. Sadly, those politicians who would rewrite our health care laws do not live in the same universe
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