NEWS & OBSERVER Sat, Jul 09, 2011 By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Here we go again. An approaching crisis. A looming deadline. Nervous markets. And then, from the miasma of gridlock, rises our president, calling upon those unruly congressional children to quit squabbling, stop kicking the can down the road […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Lead? President Obama would prefer not to. Fred Barnes June 27, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 39 We’ve had strong presidents and weak presidents, skillful presidents and incompetent presidents, mediocre presidents and just plain poor presidents. Barack Obama stands alone as the first president who simply declines to lead. On
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MAY 12, 2011 Typical retired couples will collect $1 million or more in Social Security and Medicare. This is more than they paid in, and the cost will fall on today’s workers. By JOHN COGAN Readers may recall the 1950s TV show, “The Millionaire,” which portrayed stories of individuals who were given a “no strings
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FORBES Apr. 22 2011 By PETER FERRARA A fundamental misconception about America’s welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the attitude in his book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State: “no matter how large the welfare state, liberal politicians and writers have accused it
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The status quo is far more ‘extreme’ than the Republican budget Yuval Levin April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Late last month, Senator Charles Schumer of New York led a conference call in which Senate Democrats briefed reporters about the ongoing budget battle. At the outset, unaware that
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APRIL 22, 2011 If government got by with 20% of GDP in 2007, why not in 2021, when GDP will be substantially higher? By JOHN B. TAYLOR Palo Alto, Calif. Americans are clamoring for a fact-based debate about the budget, but the numbers they’re hearing from Washington are terribly confusing. Here’s an example: Speaking at
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FROM ISSUE NUMBER 7 ~ SPRING 2011 Beyond the Welfare State YUVAL LEVIN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But what seemed like the long-awaited triumph of the liberal agenda in America may actually prove to be its unraveling. When historians consider it in retrospect, the economic crisis of 2008 might well be seen as having marked
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April 02, 2011 Simon & Schuster’s Revenge By Douglas Hackleman In 1993, thirty-three-year-old Barack Obama stiffed Poseidon Press, then an imprint of Simon & Schuster — producing absolutely nothing for the publisher that in November 1990 had given the new graduate of Harvard Law School a $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations
Posted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie B on March 8, 2011 at 4:56pm in Patriot Action Alerts View Discussions Posted on March 8, 2011 at 3:04pm by Jonathon M. Seidl Our friends over at Business Insider have uncovered the chilling presentation GOP Rep. Paul Ryan (chairman of the House Budget Committee) is using to push for budget
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 The GOP’s fiscal leader explains why House Republicans will vote to reform Medicare and why the public is ready to listen. By PAUL A. GIGOT Washington Paul Ryan doesn’t look like the menacing sort. He’s amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses
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