Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The American Military is Already Doing More with Less BY Gary Schmitt July 23, 2010 12:20 PM Yesterday, both the New York Times and Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy’s “The Cable” posted pieces on the growing pressure within Congress to cut defense spending. And, indeed, both the House and […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Think Big Republicans should embrace Paul Ryan’s Road Map. BY Fred Barnes July 19, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 41 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: As ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, Ryan was able to get the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to run the numbers in his plan. CBO
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JULY 10, 2010 Robert Byrd’s Highways to Nowhere Government pork hasn’t made West Virginia prosperous. By BRIAN BOLDUC ‘His heart belonged to you,” President Obama told the hundreds of West Virginians who attended Robert Byrd’s funeral last week. “Making life better here was his only agenda.” Maybe so. But despite the $4 billion in pork
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JULY 7, 2010 Keynes vs. Hayek: The Great Debate Continues Newly discovered letters from two great economists shed light on today’s discussion of economic ‘stimulus.’ By GERALD P. O’DRISCOLL JR. The debates raging over what policies will pull the U.S. economy out of its Great Recession replicate one that occurred during the Great Depression. Thanks
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JUNE 26, 2010 The Keynesian Dead End Spending our way to prosperity is going out of style. Today’s G-20 meeting has been advertised as a showdown between the U.S. and Europe over more spending “stimulus,” and so it is. But the larger story is the end of the neo-Keynesian economic moment, and perhaps the start
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Economic View – Can’t Cut Spending? Look Around the Globe – NYTimes.com April 16, 2010 Can’t Cut Spending? Look Around the Globe By TYLER COWEN AMERICA’S long-run fiscal outlook is bleak, mostly because of an aging population and rising health care costs. To close the gap between expenditures and revenue, we’ll likely see a combination
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RealClearMarkets – Print Version #pending_subscriptions { display: none; } March 30, 2010 By Josh Barro Here’s some good news for New Jersey residents, who pay more in state and local taxes than people anywhere else in the United States: earlier this month, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie released a budget proposal that contains no tax
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OPINION: DECLARATIONS MARCH 6, 2010 By PEGGY NOONAN It is now exactly a year since President Obama unveiled his health-care push and his decision to devote his inaugural year to it—his branding year, his first, vivid year. What a disaster it has been. At best it was a waste of history’s time, a struggle that
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Paul Ryan’s Moment The Wisconsin Congressman bests his critics. BY Matthew Continetti March 4, 2010 10:26 AM ShareThis This is Paul Ryan’s moment. If national security or social policy were at the center of debate, the Wisconsin congressman wouldn’t be nearly as prominent as he is today. But President Obama wants to reshape the American
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The 2007 Solution Fred Barnes Tue Feb 16, 4:04 pm ET Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 21 – 02/15/2010 – Republican senator George LeMieux of Florida has done the math. If government spending were reduced to its 2007 level, we’d have a balanced budget (with a $163 billion surplus). Returning to the 2008 level of spending, the
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