RAHN: All the president’s economists March 9, 2010 Richard W. Rahn The Congressional Budget Office, in last week’s update of President Obama’s budget forecasts, estimated that budget deficits will average nearly $1 trillion per year for the next decade. There is no school of economics (classical, Austrian, Keynesian, etc.) that says deficits of this magnitude […]
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MARCH 20, 2010 The vote is really about who commands the country’s medical resources. With the House’s climactic vote on ObamaCare tomorrow, Democrats are on the cusp of a profound and historic mistake, comparable in our view to the Smoot-Hawley tariff and FDR’s National Industrial Recovery Act. Everyone is preoccupied now with the politics, but
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Obama’s Nanny Care Insults the American Spirit Michael Barone Thursday, February 25, 2010 You are victims. You are helpless against the wiles of big corporations and insurance companies, and you need protection. You need the government to take over and do things you cannot do for yourself. That is the thinking of what David Brooks
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MARCH 18, 2010 By FRED BARNES On Dec. 7, 1941, an announcement was made during the football game between the hometown Washington Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles. All the generals and admirals at Griffith Stadium were instructed to report to their duty stations. Little did they know their lives would be changed forever and America
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MARCH 16, 2010 Education Secretary Arne Duncan said last week that the Obama Administration will ramp up investigations of civil rights infractions in school districts, which might sound well and good. What it means in practice, however, is that his Office of Civil Rights (OCR) will revert to the Clinton Administration policy of equating statistical
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MARCH 11, 2010 An Energy Head Fake President Obama used his January State of the Union speech to promise “a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants” and “new offshore areas for oil and gas development.” Judging by its recent decisions, we’d say his Cabinet hasn’t received the memo. Congress’s ban on offshore drilling
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MARCH 11, 2010 President Obama’s world apology tour is now the stuff of legend, but even his worst critics probably didn’t expect this week’s footnote involving Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi. P.J. Crowley, the State Department spokesman and earthy veteran of the Clinton White House, said this on Tuesday: “I understand my personal comments were perceived as
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MARCH 10, 2010 By SCOTT RASMUSSEN AND DOUG SCHOEN One of the more amazing aspects of the health-care debate is how steady public opinion has remained. Despite repeated and intense sales efforts by the president and his allies in Congress, most Americans consistently oppose the plan that has become the centerpiece of this legislative season.
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