APRIL 28, 2010 Obama’s Jerusalem Stonewall By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Thanks to a deadlock engineered by the U.S. government, the Middle East peace process is stalled. President Obama began this stalemate last year when he called for a settlement freeze, and he escalates it now with a major change of American policy regarding Jerusalem. The president […]
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APRIL 24, 2010 By JERRY BOWYER By Pittsburgh For the past several weeks the tea party movement has been widely maligned as radical and dangerous. For example, former President Bill Clinton, in a speech and a New York Times op-ed, has cautioned that supporting tea parties could unleash violent militias. The Southern Poverty Law Center
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APRIL 24, 2010 Wisconsin and the Voter Fraud Agenda Excerpt from the article: Three decades ago absentee and early ballots were only 5% of all votes cast nationwide. In 2008, they exceeded 25%. Wisconsin’s bill would also have allowed voters to register on the Internet without supplying a signature–thus removing a valuable protection against
APRIL 24, 2010 Miss Me Yet? The Freedom Agenda After George W. Bush Dissidents in the world’s most oppressive countries aren’t feeling the love from President Obama. By BARI WEISS Dallas No one seems to know precisely who is behind the “Miss Me Yet?” billboard—the cheeky one featuring a grinning George W. Bush that looks
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APRIL 23, 2010 Liberals and the Violence Card By RUSH LIMBAUGH The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused “loud and angry voices” on the airwaves (i.e., radio talk-show hosts like me)
APRIL 23, 2010 The Meaning of the Korengal Retreat By BING WEST In 2006, the United States sent a company of men into a sparsely populated, steep-sided valley called the Korengal in northeastern Afghanistan. It was part of a new counterinsurgency strategy aimed at stopping fighters from coming across the nearby Pakistan border and at
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APRIL 23, 2010 Two Cheers for General Motors By PAUL INGRASSIA Is General Motors no longer Government Motors? That’s the impression left by the company’s announcement this week that is has fully repaid the $6.7 billion in loans it got last year from the U.S. and Canadian governments. The company is “paying back—in full, with
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APRIL 20, 2010 Fannie and Freddie Amnesia By PETER J. WALLISON Now that nearly all the TARP funds used to bail out Wall Street banks have been repaid, the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stand out as the source of the greatest taxpayer losses. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that,
APRIL 20, 2010 An Economy of Liars By GERALD P. O’DRISCOLL JR. (Excerpt from the article): Congressional committees overseeing industries succumb to the allure of campaign contributions, the solicitations of industry lobbyists, and the siren song of experts whose livelihood is beholden to the industry. The interests of industry and government become intertwined and it
APRIL 22, 2010 The GOP and the Politics of Financial Reform By KARL ROVE Excerpt From Article: ” There are other potential pitfalls for Democrats in Mr. Dodd’s bill. One is a provision that would create an Office of Financial Research that would receive half a billion dollars a year to gather information on individual
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