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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AUGUST 24, 2010 Virginia Is for Surpluses Erasing red ink without a tax increase. Here’s something you don’t see often these days: a government running a budget surplus. Governor Robert McDonnell announced last week that Virginia closed fiscal 2010 some $400 million in the black. That’s a radically improved financial picture from a year ago
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Frank Roche, economist, comments on issues and concerns of our day http://www.therocherecord.com
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MITT ROMNEY Grow jobs and shrink government By Mitt Romney | August 18, 2010 IT’S NOT happening the way President Obama had planned. Unemployment blew past his 8 percent ceiling and hasn’t looked back. Private sector investment in new jobs and capital has languished. Even the head of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, Christina
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ACCOUNTING 101 It seems like a miracle that our leader was able to convince BP to establish a $20 billion slush (oops, escrow) fund to compensate those hurt by the ongoing oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico . After all, he had no constitutional power to force them to do so; so had to
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