VIDEO – THE DEATHLY DEBT CEILING AND HARRY POTTER
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BUDGET SHELL GAMES ARE CONTRARY TO LAW
JULY 14, 2011 Congressional rules require public proposals and specific numbers that can be openly debated. By MICHAEL W. MCCONNELLMr. McConnell was assistant general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget from 1981-83 and is now a professor of constitutional law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. After sending
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OBAMAGEDDON COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU?
Policy, Politics & Culture Via Meadia Walter Russell Mead’s Blog July 12, 2011 Walter Russell Mead The election of the first African-American president was widely hailed as a giant step forward for American racial politics. The future, however, may remember this administration as a giant step back for Black America during a period of deepening
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DEBT-LIMIT HARAKIRI
JULY 13, 2011 Mitch McConnell isn’t selling out Republicans. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said yesterday he’s concluded that no deal to raise the debt ceiling in return for serious spending restraint is possible with President Obama, and who can blame him? We’ve never thought the debt ceiling was the best leverage for a showdown
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OBAMA RAISING TAXES IN 2013
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GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED MELTDOWN – FANNIE MAE
JULY 12, 2011 . By PETER WALLISON Mr. Wallison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and dissented from the majority report. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Far from being a marginal player, Fannie Mae was the source of the decline in mortgage underwriting standards that
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THE FACE OF PAKISTAN’S COURAGE
JULY 12, 2011 ‘If you believe in something, you have to be willing to die for it.’ By BRET STEPHENS On Jan. 4, Salmaan Taseer, the liberal-minded governor of the Pakistani province Punjab, was shot 27 times at point-blank range by his bodyguard, an Islamic fanatic named Mumtaz Qadri. “The bullets pierced every organ in
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KRUGMAN; ‘I DIDN’T MEAN THAT STIMULUS!’
3:25 AM 07/12/2011 by Mickey Kaus Paul Krugman now says that some kinds of Keynesian stimulus spending just aren’t as effective as other kinds. Specifically, he suggests, aid to state and local governments (to enable them to keep government workers in their jobs) is a sort of second-class stimulus: So what happened to the stimulus? Much of it
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THE GLOBAL TEMPER TANTRUM
Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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