FORBES Apr. 22 2011 By PETER FERRARA A fundamental misconception about America’s welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the attitude in his book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State: “no matter how large the welfare state, liberal politicians and writers have accused it
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The status quo is far more ‘extreme’ than the Republican budget Yuval Levin April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Late last month, Senator Charles Schumer of New York led a conference call in which Senate Democrats briefed reporters about the ongoing budget battle. At the outset, unaware that
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APRIL 22, 2011 If government got by with 20% of GDP in 2007, why not in 2021, when GDP will be substantially higher? By JOHN B. TAYLOR Palo Alto, Calif. Americans are clamoring for a fact-based debate about the budget, but the numbers they’re hearing from Washington are terribly confusing. Here’s an example: Speaking at
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HUMANEVENTS.COM Obama Is Taking Care of Business by John Hayward (more by this author) Posted 04/21/2011 ET Updated 04/21/2011 ET Reuters has a report today that says “Moammar Qaddafi has consolidated his position in central and western Libya enough to maintain an indefinite standoff with rebels trying to end his four-decade rule,” according to U.S. and European
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Great Debate Ryan vs. Obama will be this year’s main event, if the president is up for it. Fred Barnes April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Paul Ryan’s dissection of Obama- –care at the White House health care summit on February 25, 2010, elevated him to a
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BOSTON GLOBE Celebrating Romney’s true role April 18, 2011 + LAST WEEK, as they celebrated the fifth birthday of the state’s universal health care law, Democrats offered crocodile congratulations to Mitt Romney for his role in making the landmark statute a reality. Because that law served as the model for ObamaCare, it has become anathema
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Daniel Halper April 13, 2011 4:16 PM House Budget chairman Paul Ryan just released the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on deficit reduction: “When the President reached out to ask us to attend his speech, we were expecting an olive branch. Instead, his speech was excessively
LIBERALS DON’T SEEM TO BE CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING JUST HOW DESTRUCTIVE THEIR OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING IS FOR OUR COUNTRY! THEY CAN DEMONIZE THE WEALTHY BUT EXACTLY WHO IS PAYING FOR ALL THEIR SPENDING WHEN 40% OF AMERICANS DON’T EVEN PAY TAXES!! Dear MoveOn member So far, more than 30,000 people are participating in a rolling fast
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April 7, 2011 http://detnews.com/article/20110407/OPINION01/104070341 Catastrophe looming thanks to Obamacare U.S. REP. MIKE ROGERS Put yourself in the shoes of a small business owner. You own a restaurant with 33 full-time employees and several dozen part-time workers. You offer health benefits to some because you feel that it’s the right thing to do. However, under Obamacare,
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