NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: As for the negatives, Ryan blasts the plan, which “appears to increase revenues by $2.8 trillion,” for relying far too heavily on tax increases. He also raises concerns over the composition of the proposed spending cuts in the plan, which appear to achieve most of […]
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WASHINGTON POST Posted at 11:45 AM ET, 07/17/2011 Interview: Margaret Hoover, the GOP’s and the millennials By Jennifer Rubin Margaret Hoover, a great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, is a regular figure on cable news and a veteran of the George W. Bush campaign. Her new book, American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can
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JULY 16, 2011 The unavailability of beer, cigarettes and fishing licenses seemed to annoy them the most. By DAVID STROM Minneapolis What if they had a government shutdown and nobody cared? That about sums up what’s just happened in Minnesota. The fiscal year ended on June 30, and since then all but “essential” services of
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JULY 16, 2011 A teachable debt-ceiling moment. President Obama famously played to grandma’s Social Security fears this week, saying in an interview about the debt-ceiling talks that “I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3 if we haven’t resolved this issue because there may simply not be the money in the coffers
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION July 4, 2011 LETTER TO THE EDITOR by Marvin L. Hoovis, Centerville, Massachusetts THEY’VE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST 40 YEARS The far-left liberal progressives must be awed and encouraged by their success in achieving many of their desired agenda changes over recent decades. They have support
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JULY 15, 2011 Cellulosic Ethanol and Unicorns The EPA punishes oil refiners for not buying a product no one makes. Today’s pop quiz: What happens if the government mandates the consumption of a product that doesn’t exist? Naturally, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to punish the gasoline refiners because they can’t buy a type
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JULY 15, 2011 The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating. So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917. As painfully ironic as this is, there’s no benefit
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WALL STREET JOURNAL JULY 15, 2011 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking heat from some in his caucus for “caving” on debt-limit talks. They might instead be thanking him for finally laying out the real choice Republicans face in this debate: 2012 or 2010. Put another way: With President Obama
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Fri, Jul 15, 2011 BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?” How about last December, when he ignored his own debt commission’s recommendations? How about February, when he presented a budget
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