APRIL 11, 2011 By allowing borrowers to write off the interest on their mortgages, the IRS is incentivizing homeowners to drag out their payments for years. There’s a better way. By ARKADI KUHLMANN If the financial crisis revealed anything about homeownership in this country, it’s that “ownership” is too often a misnomer. Since the crisis […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Daniel Halper April 13, 2011 4:16 PM House Budget chairman Paul Ryan just released the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on deficit reduction: “When the President reached out to ask us to attend his speech, we were expecting an olive branch. Instead, his speech was excessively
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) No hope, no change. Fred Barnes April 13, 2011 4:02 PM President Obama always lets you down. Just when you think he’s ready to deliver a lofty speech chocked with specifics on handling the spending and debt emergency, he offers up a hyper-partisan attack on the leading Republican proposal,
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April 15th – Raleigh Tax Day Tea Party Raleigh, NC – April 8, 2011 — Triangle Conservatives Unite! (TCU) will be hosting their annual Tax Day Tea Party at the Raleigh State Capitol on April 15, 2011 from 5:00pm until 7:30pm. Triangle Conservatives Unite! is a conservative group made up of NC citizens who are
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April 07, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive VIDEO: Is DOT Double-Counting High-Speed Rail Jobs? By Anthony Greco RALEIGH — Under the job-years concept, if one person holds the same job for four years, it’s counted as four jobs. That’s how the North Carolina Department of Transportation can claim that federal funding for high-speed rail would
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FROM ISSUE NUMBER 7 ~ SPRING 2011 Beyond the Welfare State YUVAL LEVIN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But what seemed like the long-awaited triumph of the liberal agenda in America may actually prove to be its unraveling. When historians consider it in retrospect, the economic crisis of 2008 might well be seen as having marked
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APRIL 5, 2011 The GOP Path to Prosperity Our budget cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president’s budget over the next 10 years and puts the nation on track to pay off our national debt. By PAUL D. RYAN Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Democrats accuse Republicans of raising taxes. Jeffrey H. Anderson April 2, 2011 11:56 AM Politico reports that House Republicans have taken action to try to keep Obamacare from letting people write off the costs of having an abortion on their taxes. Politico writes, “The House Ways & Means Committee voted
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