WALL STREET JOURNAL JULY 15, 2011 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking heat from some in his caucus for “caving” on debt-limit talks. They might instead be thanking him for finally laying out the real choice Republicans face in this debate: 2012 or 2010. Put another way: With President Obama […]
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The following comments were sent to us from one of our members, Bonnie Clarke Sagan, who lives in Bakersville, North Carolina which is in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Bonnie is very concerned about the White House’s Executive Order for a Rural Council that was signed last month in June 2011. To refresh our memories, I have included
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JULY 13, 2011, 7:28 P.M. ET What if the weak recovery is all the recovery we are going to get? By DANIEL HENNINGER Barack Obama, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have been performing an intricate scorpion dance over spending, taxes and the debt ceiling, premised on the belief that this is the deal that would
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, Jul. 13, 2011, By MICHAEL GOODWIN July 13, 2011 When President Obama started talking at his news conference Monday, I listened intently for 15 minutes or so. Then I got fidgety as his half-truths about the debt grew into full-blown whoppers. As he droned on, I did something I never did before during an
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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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This email was just sent out from our friends at the Republican National Committee (@RNC). Please share with your lists and on your social networks. If you are on Twitter, you can copy, paste and tweet: “RT @RNC Start printing the bumper stickers! Obama: If I get re-elected, then I’ll raise taxes in 2013 is.gd/Z2Rxdp
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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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July 12, 2011 By Byron York 7/12/2011 “This is a disaster,” Mark Miller, the Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader, said in February after Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a budget bill that would curtail the collective-bargaining powers of some public employees. Miller predicted catastrophe if the bill were to become law — a charge repeated thousands
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JULY 11, 2011 Taxes Upon Taxes Upon . . . Obama wants $1 trillion in taxes on top of what he’s already signed. So the fondest Washington hopes for a grand debt-limit deal have broken down over taxes. House Speaker John Boehner said late Saturday that he couldn’t move ahead with a $4 trillion deal
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