SEPTEMBER 1, 2011 Post-’60s liberals, with the president as their standard bearer, seek to make a virtue of decline. By SHELBY STEELE If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some say this destructiveness is intended; most say it is inadvertent, an outgrowth of inexperience, ideological […]
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AUGUST 31, 2011 The Obama administration repeats mistakes of the past by intimidating banks into lending to minority borrowers at below-market rates in the name of combatting discrimination. By MARY KISSEL Talk about not learning from past mistakes: A government department is again intimidating banks into lending to minority borrowers at below-market rates, all in
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AUGUST 31, 2011 By MELANIE TROTTMAN The National Labor Relations Board sided with unions in several cases involving rules for organizing and representing workers, further riling business groups as the board continues to push through decisions by year’s end. The board’s three Democrats outvoted the group’s sole Republican member in all three of the cases.
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AUGUST 26, 2011 Unions weren’t so uniformly behind tax increases when most of their members worked for companies in the private economy. By STEVEN MALANGA Although the field of Republican presidential contenders is still in flux, the National Education Association (NEA) decided in early July to endorse President Obama’s 2012 re-election bid. The move by
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Washington Post… Right Turn Blog August 24 2011 Jewish vote in play in 2012? By Jennifer Rubin Washington Jewish Week reports that longtime Democratic operative Ira Forman (who ran the National Jewish Democratic Coalition) has been hired on to run Obama’s Jewish outreach efforts for 2012: As a former Clinton administration official who managed the
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August 25, 2011By Victor Davis Hanson To newly inaugurated Barack Obama and his prime-the-pump technocrats, the logic seemed so simple. America’s problem was a struggling economy. The solution was to spread around even more borrowed government money. The result would be a return to prosperity. But after nearly three years and $4 trillion in borrowed
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August 22, 2011 Al Gore Goes on a Tirade By Jack Kelly Former Vice President Al Gore went on a profanity-laced tirade at the Aspen Institute Aug. 4 against the rising number of Americans who are skeptical about man-made global warming. According to a Harris poll in July, only 44 percent of us now believe
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August 18, 2011 By Matt Patterson Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many
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