AUGUST 22, 2010 Political Reversal Down Under Running an explicitly conservative campaign, Australia’s Tony Abbott has denied Labor a governing majority. By MARY KISSEL Sydney In December the smart set in the big cities here thought the Liberal Party—Australia’s traditionally conservative party—had jumped off a cliff by electing Tony Abbott opposition leader. The Liberals, opined
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EDITORIAL: Democratic decline Bush-league blame game can’t hide the truth By THE WASHINGTON TIMES– August 10, 2010 ASSOCIATED PRESS House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, outside the White House on Thursday, calls for BP to stop making dividend payments to shareholders until it addresses economic assistance claims from businesses that have been affected by the oil spill.
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HILLYER: Tim Scott’s freedom fries Charleston’s candidate from Chick-fil-A By Quin Hillyer– The Washington Times August 6, 2010 Tim Scott High school freshman Tim Scott could not afford Chick-fil-A sandwiches back in 1981, but the French fries were good and inexpensive. Eating those fries made him a success, a conservative and an odds-on favorite to
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AUGUST 20, 2010 More Countrywide Loans What Senate ethicists didn’t tell us. Turns out the Senate ethics committee’s 2009 whitewash of Senator Chris Dodd’s sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial was even worse than we thought. Three times worse. The committee was asked to examine Mr. Dodd’s 2003 receipt of two “Friends of Angelo” loans, named
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AUGUST 19, 2010 Unfunded Public Pensions—the Next Quagmire A federal bailout would cost trillions and prevent necessary reforms. But there are several ways states can rationalize their workers’ retirement benefits. By R. EDEN MARTIN The next big issue on the national political horizon may be whether the federal government should bail out the many budget-strapped
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AUGUST 19, 2010 Barney to Fannie: Drop Dead Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles. Barney Frank has been all over the airwaves this week with a clear and—we never thought we’d say this—perfectly sound message about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: “They should be abolished.” Well, praise be. Two years ago next month, then Treasury
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AUGUST 19, 2010 Deconstructing Harry Reid The Senate majority leader’s inexplicable desire to debate taxes in September. By KARL ROVE Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can say the darndest things. He certainly did last week when he proclaimed: “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.” That must have thrilled his
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WASHINGTON TIMES Agents’ union disavows leaders of ICE Sees support for ‘amnesty’ **FILE** Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton (The Washington Times) By Jerry Seper – The Washington Times August 9, 2010 The union that represents rank-and-file field agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has unanimously passed a “vote of no confidence”
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AUGUST 12, 2010 Washington vs. Paul Ryan What happens when a politician is more honest than his critics. The immune system of the modern body politic is nothing if not resilient, and this summer all of its antibodies seem to be trained on heretofore little known Congressman Paul Ryan. That makes this a particularly instructive
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