November 17, 2010 Dr. Donald Berwick has his coming out party today in Washington. After President Obama snuck him into office during a recess appointment as the head of the second largest health insurance company in the world- CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) without so much as a single hearing, Senators finally have […]
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Irish Resist EU’s Push to Accept a Rescue By MARCUS WALKER,BRIAN BLACKSTONE And NEIL SHAH Europe’s debt crisis entered a critical new phase as Ireland resisted pressure from the European Central Bank and national governments to seek a bailout amid growing concern that the currency bloc could unravel. Ireland fiercely denied that
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 1, 2010 Reviewed by Wes Vernon DUPES: HOW AMERICA’S ADVERSARIES HAVE MANIPULATED PROGRESSIVES FOR A CENTURY By Paul Kengor ISI Books, $29.95, 497 pages “I think we’re going to hell in a handbasket.” That comment was uttered at a recent public gathering here in Washington by Paul Kengor, political science
November 5, 2010 Book asks: New Deal or Raw Deal? By Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist The Picayune Item PICAYUNE — Guess who said the following: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” Was it Sarah Palin? Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove? Not even
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010, 4:09 P.M. ET For now: Extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal ObamaCare, support free trade. After 2012: Enact a flat tax, stabilize prices, balance the budget, give politicians incentive pay. By ARTHUR LAFFER Since its cyclical zenith in December 2007, U.S. economic production has been on its worst trajectory since the Great
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Five of my colleagues at Novaya Gazeta have been murdered. No one has been brought to justice. By ELENA MILASHINA Moscow As a journalist for Russia’s leading independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, I have been lucky. For over a decade I’ve had the privilege to report extensively on dramatic current events in my
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010 ObamaCare’s pre-existing condition program is a bust. Democrats think they know how to run the insurance industry better than the insurance industry, and they’re getting the chance to prove it under ObamaCare. Consider the early returns on its plan to insure Americans denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. To judge by President Obama’s
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NEWS & OBSERVER Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 LONDON Britain announced the most radical overhaul in decades Thursday to its once-generous welfare system, pledging harsh penalties for those who refuse jobs and community work service for the unemployed in return for benefit checks. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith announced sharp changes to the country’s
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The American Spectator The Obama Watch Stop the Obama Tax Hikes By Peter Ferrara on 11.10.10 @ 6:09AM Let us survey the wreckage of Obamanomics, which followed in detail the opposite of every policy of Reaganomics. Unemployment has been near 10% for over a year now, after reaching 9.7% in August 2009. The Bureau of
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On Climate Change California Dreaming: Missing America’s Wake-Up Call Larry Bell, 11.10.10, 11:25 AM ET What happened to the notion that “where California goes, so goes the nation”? The Nov. 2 midterm election results demonstrated something very different: The Golden State zagged, while most of the country zigged. That dynamic applied pretty much across the
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