March 8, 2013 The Drama Over, Time For Smart Budget Cuts Since 2002, total federal spending has increased nearly 89% while median household income has dropped 5%. By TOM COBURN Mr. Coburn is a Republican senator from Oklahoma. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Another source of potential savings is duplication of federal services, which accounts […]
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES HANSON: Why do societies give up? Slicing up a shrinking pie breeds class envy, then ruin By Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His new book, “The Savior Generals,” will appear this spring from Bloomsbury Press. Monday, February 18, 2013
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March 2, 2013 Notable & Quotable Senator Tom Coburn on sequestration and the government’s 1,362 duplicative programs. Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.), in a letter to the White House Office of Management and Budget, Feb. 26: The administration is warning sequestration may force the laying off or furloughing of air traffic controllers, border patrol
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March 2, 2013 Psalm 23, Newly Revised According to Modern Principles Proverbial wisdom for the Age of Obama. By MARK HELPRIN Mr. Helprin is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and the author, most recently, of the novel “In Sunlight and In Shadow” (Harcourt, 2012) Yea, though I walk through the valley of
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Hail Armageddon By Charles Krauthammer March 1, 2013 12:00 A.M. ‘The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told the Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.” Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2 percent —
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February 28, 2013 Henninger: The Obamaian Universe A place where everything revolves around the fixed planet of public spending. By DANIEL HENNINGER It may be that we have to move beyond politics alone to explain events in Washington. We are in the fifth year of the Obama presidency, and Washington is still dead in
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What a Defense Secretary Does Pace Hagel, it’s a policy-making job. Dan Senor March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24 In September 1993, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin received a request from the U.S. commander in Somalia for extra tanks, armored vehicles, and AC-130 Spectre gunships to support
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February 22, 2013 Noonan: Government by Freakout Obama’s scare tactics aren’t much of a long-term strategy. By PEGGY NOONAN The president’s sequester strategy is like Howard Beale in “Network”: “Woe is us. . . . And woe is us! We’re in a lot of trouble!” It is always cliffs, ceilings and looming catastrophes with
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Guns and Pensions By Thomas Sowell – February 19, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:American warplanes were not updated to match the latest warplanes of Nazi Germany or imperial Japan. After World War II broke out, American soldiers stationed in the Philippines were fighting for their lives using rifles left over from the Spanish-American war,
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