November 17, 2010 Cities Face a Deepening Fiscal Crisis By Steven Malanga The steep fiscal crisis that many states face includes staggering retirement costs for their workers, estimated at some $3 trillion in unfunded future promises. The size of those liabilities has already shaken up some municipal bond investors, and the inadequate, sometimes misleading way […]
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NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010 ObamaCare’s pre-existing condition program is a bust. Democrats think they know how to run the insurance industry better than the insurance industry, and they’re getting the chance to prove it under ObamaCare. Consider the early returns on its plan to insure Americans denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. To judge by President Obama’s
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WALL STREET JOURNAL NOVEMBER 11, 2010 The 1099 Democrats The Democrats decoupled from business—and lost the election. By DANIEL HENNINGER Calvin Coolidge once said, “The chief business of the American people is business.” The Democrats just lost America because they forgot that. On second thought, you can’t forget what you never knew. The Democrats running
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The American Spectator The Obama Watch Stop the Obama Tax Hikes By Peter Ferrara on 11.10.10 @ 6:09AM Let us survey the wreckage of Obamanomics, which followed in detail the opposite of every policy of Reaganomics. Unemployment has been near 10% for over a year now, after reaching 9.7% in August 2009. The Bureau of
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On Climate Change California Dreaming: Missing America’s Wake-Up Call Larry Bell, 11.10.10, 11:25 AM ET What happened to the notion that “where California goes, so goes the nation”? The Nov. 2 midterm election results demonstrated something very different: The Golden State zagged, while most of the country zigged. That dynamic applied pretty much across the
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Republicans want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% permanently—a millionaire bailout. Can you submit a reason—or five—explaining why this is a terrible idea? We’ll use your submissions in a big multimedia campaign to stop this reckless move. Click Here Dear MoveOn member, The economy is in shambles. People everywhere are struggling
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AMERICAN THINKER November 09, 2010 Bernanke’s Cowardice Has Sealed Our Fate By Monty Pelerin The day after the election, the Federal Reserve launched QE2, the second round of Quantitative Easing. This public relations euphemism attempts to hide the fact that the Fed is “printing money” (the Fed actually does it electronically these days). “Cheating, debasing,
NOVEMBER 8, 2010 California: The Lindsay Lohan of States Sacramento is headed for trouble again, and it shouldn’t expect a bailout. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Listen up, California. The other 48 states—your cousin New York excluded—are sick of your bratty arrogance. You’re the Lindsay Lohan of states: a prima donna who once showed some talent but
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“Republican Leaders Hail Historic Election Results” Raleigh – An unusually large turnout at the polls Tuesday gave the Republicans a majority of 68-70 seats in the 120 seat NC House of Representatives. This historic election assured Republican control of the House for the first time since 1998. Republicans also wrested control of the NC Senate,
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