SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 Time for Emergency Economic Reform How about a payroll tax holiday, funded by a federal spending, hiring and pay freeze? By MITCH DANIELS, Governor of Indiana Ronald Reagan enjoyed telling of the elderly Blitz victim rescued from her demolished London flat in World War II. A fireman found a bottle of brandy under […]
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 The Obama Economy How trillions in fiscal and monetary stimulus produced a 1.6% recovery. So two months before an election, and 19 months after the mother of all spending programs, President Obama said yesterday he’s rolling out one more plan to stimulate the economy. We’ll discuss the details when they’re released, but
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The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 Summer of Economic Discontent The administration’s ‘summer of recovery’ has fizzled in almost every way imaginable. The growth rate is less than half what it was at this stage after the 1974-75 and 1981-82 recessions. By MICHAEL BOSKIN The Obama administration’s “summer of recovery” has morphed into a summer of economic discontent
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This is an excellent interview with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. who is chairman of the Republican Governors Association. He speaks about the history of the Republican Party and its future. Haley Barbour was the Chairman of the RNC in 1994 when the Republicans were voted back into the majority in Congress and he is able to discuss what the conditions
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MURDOCK: A Republican in Harlem Michel Faulkner could upend Rangel with conservative play By Deroy Murdock – The Washington Times August 12, 2010 Illustration: Harlem Hokie by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times ”I am not going away,” 40-year veteran Rep. Charles B. Rangel told House colleagues Tuesday. “You’re not going to tell me to
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AUGUST 28, 2010 A Senator and His ‘Disciples’ The Senate’s stalwart opponent of big government is intent on electing some allies this year. His new PAC and growing anti-Obama sentiment mean he just might succeed. By STEVE MOORE ‘I’d rather lose with Pat Toomey than win with Arlen Specter any day.” That’s South Carolina Republican
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AUGUST 26, 2010 The IRS Targets Incompetent Tax Preparers That’s good news. But the agency is going overboard By BRAD SHERMAN AND MICHAEL CONAWAY The IRS is out to do something nice for us by ensuring we get quality help when we hire someone to prepare our tax returns. Unfortunately, parts of this laudable effort
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AUGUST 24, 2010 The Fed Can Create Money, Not Confidence Inflation—or stagflation—remains the more serious danger than deflation. By GEORGE MELLOAN A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week showed that consumers are having difficulty climbing out of the debt hole they dug for themselves before the credit bubble began to
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AUGUST 22, 2010 $4.4 Trillion That’s how much the spending baseline has increased in 31 months. Speaking last Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, President Obama asked, “How do we, over the long term, get control of our deficit?” Good question. Here’s the answer suggested by last Thursday’s semi-annual budget summary from the Congressional Budget Office: Stop
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