JUNE 10, 2011 The Texas model added 37% of all net U.S. jobs since the recovery began. Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, dropped by our offices this week and relayed a remarkable fact: Some 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began were created in Texas. […]
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JUNE 10, 2011 Congress has approved plans to go ahead with the Yucca Mountain waste facility. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko has other ideas. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The Obama administration has shown a certain ruthless streak when it comes to getting what it wants. For its latest in brass-knuckle tactics, consider the ongoing
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INVESTORS’ BUSINESS DAILY June 9, 2011 Europe Is Warning Us By Victor Davis Hanson ROME — If Americans think fuel and food prices are high, they should try Europe, where both can nearly double those in the United States — while salaries here are often lower. Italians, like most now-broke Southern European countries, are desperate
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JUNE 7, 2011 As production slows, the North Slope pipeline could shut down. Perhaps you’ve heard politicians call for “independence” from foreign oil, however unrealistic the goal. What you probably haven’t heard about is the determined environmental campaign, abetted by the Obama Administration, to shut down the 38-year-old Trans-Alaska Pipeline. In its 1980s heyday, the
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JUNE 2, 2011 Secretary of Subsidy Obama’s Commerce nominee knows all about corporate welfare. President Obama nominated John Bryson to head the Commerce Department on Tuesday, praising the Californian as “a business leader who understands what it takes to innovate, create jobs and to persevere through tough times.” That’s one way of describing someone with
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JUNE 1, 2011 How to vote for a law and then raise money by deploring its results. Another day, and another cheerleader for the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law is deploring its 2011 impact. This time it’s New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who has spearheaded a letter from 18 Empire State Members of Congress to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Fat City Thank you, Illinois taxpayers, for my cushy life. David Rubinstein May 30, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 35 After 34 years of teaching sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I recently retired at age 64 at 80 percent of my pay for life. This calculation was
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townhall.com By David Limbaugh 5/27/2011 My advice for the GOP: No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more putting the pretense of civility above the best interests of the nation. Democrats are playing cynical games with our national debt crisis, and it’s time they were called out on them — directly, volubly and repeatedly. Senate Democrats
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