Government by regulation. Shhh. By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 31, 2010; Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health-care law. Well, […]
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How Deng Xiaoping, architect of China’s rise, defined the decade By Mallory Factor Thursday, December 30th 2010, 4:00 AM AP Deng Xiaoping in 1978. As 2010 closes, Americans might be inclined to consider Osama Bin Laden or George W. Bush as Person of the Decade. (All the better if Bin Laden would agree to pick
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The American Spectator By Jeffrey Lord on 12.28.10 “If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” — Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Sarah Palin was right. John Boehner — make that Speaker-elect of the House John Boehner — was right. While Americans were busy celebrating
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Europe’s rendezvous with monetary destiny Christopher Caldwell December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 It has been easy to snicker in recent weeks at the politicians who designed the euro, which appears on the verge of collapse after a decade as the common currency of a dozen countries in
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Obama Team’s Other Lost Election Despite the administration’s thumb on the scale, Delta doesn’t unionize. Fred Barnes December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 President Obama has done more favors, more often, for organized labor than any other president, outpacing even FDR and Harry Truman in the lightning
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Pence’s Presidential Pensées An Indiana congressman’s critique of Obamaism. Terry Eastland December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 It may be startling to imagine the American presidency as a train that “has run off the rails.” But that’s the metaphor Indiana Republican Mike Pence chose in a speech he
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TYRRELL: New label for liberals They like ‘progressives,’ but ‘friendly fascists’ suits them better By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.– founder and editor-in-chief of the American Spectator The Washington Times December 8, 2010 The Great Denial continues. The liberals continue to labor under the assumption that nothing very bad happened in early November. They are still
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August 15, 2010 The ‘Right to Health Care’ Can Be the Right to No Care By Deane Waldman If you read British newspapers, you know their universal health care system is cutting more and more services. There, everyone’s right to health care is becoming the right to no care. Do we want that in the
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