COMMENTARYMAGAZINE.COM Answering Jonathan Alter’s Challenge Peter Wehner 08.26.2011 – “Tell me again why Barack Obama has been such a bad president?” Jonathan Alter writes in his column. Alter tells us he’s not talking here about Obama as a tactician and communicator, and he’s not interested in hearing ad hominem attacks or about people’s generalized “disappointment.” […]
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AUGUST 26, 2011 How is increasing the price of imported oil and industrial commodities supposed to make U.S. industry more competitive? By ALAN REYNOLDS One year ago, on Aug. 27, 2010, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke explained the rationale for a second round of quantitative easing. “A first option for providing additional monetary accommodation is
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AUGUST 26, 2011 One program for recovery worked, and the other hasn’t. By STEPHEN MOORE If you really want to light the fuse of a liberal Democrat, compare Barack Obama’s economic performance after 30 months in office with that of Ronald Reagan. It’s not at all flattering for Mr. Obama. The two presidents have a
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August 25, 2011By Victor Davis Hanson To newly inaugurated Barack Obama and his prime-the-pump technocrats, the logic seemed so simple. America’s problem was a struggling economy. The solution was to spread around even more borrowed government money. The result would be a return to prosperity. But after nearly three years and $4 trillion in borrowed
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HERITAGE FOUNDATION Morning Bell: Obama’s “Green Jobs” Pipe Dream Posted By Mike Brownfield On 08/23/2011 @ 09:25 am in Energy and Environment | 0 Comment(s) President Barack Obama has a problem on his hands when even his stalwart allies at The New York Times have no choice but to admit to a glaring reality: The
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AUGUST 9, 2011 Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The downgrade uproar and even the market turmoil are signs that Americans aren’t about to accept economic decline gracefully. To adapt a famous phrase, a debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste During yesterday’s market meltdown, an old
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REAL CLEAR POLITICS August 6, 2011 By Robert Tracinski The debt deal unhinged the left. No, the Tea Parties did not win, as the left has been saying. The spending “cuts” only limit the additional growth of government, and they are too small and too distant to be worth celebrating. But the left is correct
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3:25 AM 07/12/2011 by Mickey Kaus Paul Krugman now says that some kinds of Keynesian stimulus spending just aren’t as effective as other kinds. Specifically, he suggests, aid to state and local governments (to enable them to keep government workers in their jobs) is a sort of second-class stimulus: So what happened to the stimulus? Much of it
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Queen of the Tea Party The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann Matthew Continetti July 4 – July 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40 If she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to
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