Measuring Obama’s Speech, by Newt Gingrich
Monday morning, I posted to Facebook a five question checklist by which
to measure President Obama’s speech on our military engagement in
Libya. Here is my analysis of how effectively the president answered
those questions: Does President Obama cite working with Congress more
than working with the Arab League or the United Nations? No. President
Obama mentioned Congress just once in a 3,400 word speech. In
contrast, he mentioned the United Nations... read more
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Congressman Campbell’s Laptop to Yours, By John Campbell
Monday, March 28, 2011 - $4/gallon, $4.50/gallon, $5/gallon or More - I
was home in California last week and I paid $4.29 for premium fuel
while I was there. And, as I write this, the price of oil is still
rising. $4.50 or $5.00 per gallon of gas is certainly in sight and
possible. And, remember that the price of oil is denominated in
dollars, but it is a world market. So, when the value of the dollar
drops, as it is doing now due to printing money and deficits and
such... read more
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Townhall... Full-Throttle Drill,
Drill, Drill, by Larry Kudlow
If you buy into the energy speech President Obama delivered on
Wednesday, it sure sounds like we’re headed for drill, drill, drill. It
would be a total reversal of policy. I guess $100-plus oil and near $4
gas at the pump -- along with a consumer economic-political revolt --
will do that to you. After bashing oil and gas companies for a couple
of years and instituting a virtual drilling moratorium, President
Obama... read more
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Obama on the Hook,
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
With each of his policies, Obama takes a gamble. If they work,
he’s OK. If they don’t, he’s on the hook for the outcome.
Consider the extent of his exposure - His involvement in Libya makes
him responsible if Gaddafi stays in power and slaughters his own people
and/or renews his connections with international terrorism. Obama will
be equally responsible should... read more
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Townhall...
FDA Headbangs With
Condoms, Not Cigs, By Katie Kieffer
If young people have casual sex, they’re rock stars, as long as they
use condoms. If they casually smoke cigarettes, they’re borderline
criminals. According to the FDA, that is. The FDA takes a hypocritical
and overly invasive stance on two adult products: Condoms and
cigarettes. The FDA’s inconsistent and excessive regulation of these
adult products hurts free enterprise and represents an inappropriate
extension of government in our daily lives... read more
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Redstate...
US Allies With Al
Qaeda In Libya, Posted by streiff (Profile)
Sunday, March 27th - Did. Not. See. This. Coming. - As we’ve noted over
the past weeks, we know precious little about the alleged “rebels” on
whose behalf we’ve intervened in Libya. Now a little more information
is available: In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24
Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited “around 25″ men from
the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in
Iraq. Some of them, he said, are “today are on the front... read more
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Townhall... How Awful Is GE?
By Mona Charen
April 18 looms like a specter at this time of year, casting a pall over
the forsythia and daffodils that coax us to be cheerful. Like a sick
child who longs to play outside on a sunny day but must remain
confined, we itemizers are chained to desks or dining-room tables
littered with receipts, calendars, checkbook registers, and credit card
statements for the annual spring ordeal... read more
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Townhall... Voting with Their
Feet, By Thomas Sowell
The latest published data from the 2010 census show how people are
moving from place to place within the United States. In general, people
are voting with their feet against places where the liberal,
welfare-state policies favored by the intelligentsia are most deeply
entrenched. When you break it down by race and ethnicity, it is all too
painfully clear what is happening. Both whites and blacks are
leaving... read more
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Columbus
Dispatch Editorial... Bad
idea
Sunday, March 27, 2011 - Elected officials shouldn’t dodge duty to
settle union-contract disputes - A compromise being floated to speed
passage of Ohio’s collective-bargaining bill — by giving voters the
final say on union contracts — instead would enable public officials to
sidestep their duty and dump the hard decisions on taxpayers. No doubt,
Ohio Senate Bill 5 will undergo changes as Republican House and Senate
work on it. But this is one idea that lawmakers should not... read more
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The
Columbus Dispatch, Just
mention the ‘T word,’ and politicians plug their ears, By
Joe Hallett
Sunday, March 27, 2011 03:15 AM - Having a civil and rational
discussion about taxes has been impossible for a long time. Both
political parties rip anyone who even hints at a tax increase. The
disconnection between services and the need for taxes to pay for them
is so complete that state residents have become deluded into believing
there really is a free lunch. Gov. John Kasich truly believes that low
taxes and less spending at every level of government are... read more
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Human Events Editorial... The
Energy Choke
03/24/2011 - Jobs and economic growth are being deliberately strangled.
The American economy was already nursing a broken ankle from high
unemployment and suffering heart palpitations as it tried to figure out
how it could cover the impossible cost of its government. Now it feels
a terrible pain gnawing at its belly, as food prices experience their
sharpest climb in 36 years... read more
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Townhall... Collapse of the
Obama Worldview, By Austin Hill
“…Today I authorized the Armed Forces of the United States to begin a
limited military action in Libya, in support of an international effort
to protect Libyan civilians…” Thus began a press conference with
President Barack Obama. It was Saturday March 19th. While traveling in
Brazil, he took a few minutes to announce that a military response to
the Gaddafi crisis was underway... read more
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Townhall...
Ponzi Schemes,
By John C. Goodman
Jack Lew is lucky he isn’t in prison. Were he representing a private
pension fund and if he made the sort of statements he made in USA Today
the other day, he might well be sharing a cell with Bernie Madoff. So
who is Jack Lew? And what did he say? Lew is the Director of the
federal Office of Management and Budget. About Social Security, he
wrote: “Taxes are placed in a trust fund dedicated to paying benefits
owed to current and future beneficiaries. When more taxes are... read more
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Reason
Foundation... The Truth
About Nuclear Power, By Veronique de Rugy
March 25, 2011 - Separating economic myth from economic fact - Myth 1:
Nuclear power is a cheap alternative to fossil fuels. Fact 1: It isn’t.
As Jerry Taylor of the Cato Institute wrote in Reason magazine in 2009,
“Nuclear energy is to the Right what solar energy is to the Left:
Religious devotion in practice, a wonderful technology in theory, but
an economic white elephant in fact (some crossovers on both sides
notwithstanding). When the day comes that the electricity... read more
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Redstate... Obama’s Not Just
Bombing Libya... Monday, March 28th
The Main Course Speech That Felt More Like an Appetizer - Obama:
Wherever people long to be free, they will find a friend in the United
States. Except in Syria. And in Iran. And in... Posted by Jeff Emanuel
(Profile)
You might have heard that President Obama (finally) gave a speech about
the shelling of Libya he ordered well over a week ago. Or, you might
not have; he’s been trying pretty... read more
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Townhall...
The Triumph of Evil,
By Bill O’Reilly
The opposition to military action in Libya is fascinating. President
Obama is taking incoming fire from both the left and the right as
various agendas collide against neutralizing Moammar Gadhafi. The
dissent is all over the place, so let’s try to simplify the situation.
We begin with a quote from Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for
the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” That’s true. We
have seen it time and again throughout history. When evil is not... read more
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Reason
Foundation... The Rosy
Scenario System, By Peter Suderman
March 23, 2011 - Optimism won’t fix America’s fiscal problems.
President Barack Obama is a budgetary optimist. When he announced his
budget proposal last month, he framed it hopefully, as a welcome return
to fiscal sanity and a path towards a better tomorrow. It was time that
Washington acted “responsibly,” he said. “After a decade of rising
deficits, this budget asks Washington to live within its means, while
at the same time investing in our future. It cuts... read more
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Townhall... Gadhafi -- the Mad
Dog Who Trumped the World, By Debra J. Saunders
Every American should look at Libya through the prism of the 1988 Pan
Am 103 terrorist bombing that left 270 people dead. Moammar Gadhafi --
the man whom Ronald Reagan called the mad dog of the Middle East --
ordered an attack that killed mostly American civilians in a bombing
over British soil. Yet rather than be beaten by more powerful nations,
he lived to crow about it... read more
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Townhall... Of Sweatshops And
Classrooms, By David Stokes
On March 25, 1911—exactly 100 years ago—approximately 500 workers were
crafting “shirtwaists,” blouses with puffy sleeves and tight waists.
These garments were the height of feminine fashion in America during
the years before World War I and worn by “Gibson Girls.” It was part of
an image personifying beauty, with a touch of independence, popularized
by illustrated stories developed by a guy... read more
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Akron
Beacon Journal... Liquored
up for jobs
Published on Friday, Mar 25, 2011 - How the governor wants to fund his
plan for economic development - John Kasich promised a bold new plan
for job creation. Last month, lawmakers did their part, approving the
creation of JobsOhio. The private, nonprofit corporation, its board
headed by the governor, will take over the economic development duties
of the state Department of Development. Now Kasich has gotten bolder.
His budget plan, unveiled last week, proposes... read more
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Townhall...
Gov. Walker’s
Legislation Has Unions Caving Already, By Kyle Olson
Apparently Gov. Scott Walker knew exactly what he was doing. Before he
signed the bill limiting collective bargaining privileges, teachers
unions throughout the state were slow to respond to calls for salary
and benefit concessions. They believed their members should be held
harmless during a period of necessary cost-cutting. They didn’t seem to
care that Wisconsin schools were operating with multi-million dollar
deficits that were forcing the layoffs of younger teachers and... read more
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Townhall... Flunking the
Citizenship Test, By Brent Bozell
Anyone who’s ever seen Jay Leno do one of his “Jaywalking” segments on
NBC, locating average Americans and asking them factual questions on
street corners, knows there are far too many Americans who know next to
nothing about just about everything. They can’t name our first
president or don’t even know what the phrase “Founding Fathers” means.
Ask them to name our current vice... read more
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Reason
Foundation... Obama’s War
of Choice, By Jacob Sullum
March 23, 2011 - The dangerously open-ended rationale for attacking
Libya - In December 2007 The Boston Globe asked 12 presidential
candidates about military action aimed at stopping Iran from building
nuclear weapons. “In what circumstances, if any,” the Globe asked,
“would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without
seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress?” Here is how Barack
Obama responded: “The President does not have... read more
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Redstate...
Where This Is Headed,
Posted by Michael Hammond
Thursday, March 24th - So … where is this whole budget process headed?
Let’s review the bidding: Many conservative groups have pushed for -–
at the very least -– Republican opposition to any short-or long-term
spending bill that does not defund ObamaCare. The Republican leadership
balks because they do not want to get the blame for shutting down the
government -– which would be shut down for the sole reason that Barack
Obama refuses to sign a bill... read more
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Townhall...
Corporate Welfare,
By John Stossel
In America today, the biggest recipients of handouts are not poor
people. They’re corporations. General Electric CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt is
super-close to President Obama. The president named Immelt chairman of
his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Before that, Immelt was on
Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. He’s a regular companion when
Obama travels abroad to hawk American exports. (Why does business need
government to do that?)... read more
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Townhall... Parents Need to Step
Up in Style Wars, by Kathryn Lopez
“Dad may try to ruin your style, but dry stains won’t.” The revealing
dress code of the American ‘tween may be best dramatized by yet another
pop-culture slap in the face of fatherhood: A Tide commercial. Dad
knowingly wipes off dirt on his daughter’s way-too-short skirt. Mom is
all too happy to get things clean with the product being advertised.
Why are moms sometimes all too happy to... read more
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Townhall...
Anti-Iraq War
Bush-Haters Squirm to Justify Libya, By Larry Elder
“The President does not have power under the Constitution to
unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not
involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation,”
then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said in December 2007. What a
difference a change of job title makes. “Let’s just call a spade a
spade. A no-fly zone begins with an attack on Libya,” said Defense
Secretary Robert Gates three weeks before President Obama ordered a... read more
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A
Must Read at FoxNews... Gambling
With Our Very Lives -- A Senior’s Take on ObamaCare
By Jim Martin - Published March 22, 2011 - The one-year anniversary of
the passage of ObamaCare arrives Wednesday and as I reflect on the
battle that gave us this bill and everything that’s happened since, I
am reminded of the game liar’s poker. Liar’s poker is a game of chance
made famous by Michael Lewis’ book of the same name, where players use
any tactic to convince their opponent they have a stronger hand than
they really have... read more
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Human Events... A Foolish and
Unconstitutional War, by Patrick J. Buchanan
03/21/2011 - “The president does not have power under the Constitution
to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does
not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” So
said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007
-- the same man who, this weekend, ordered U.S. air and missile strikes
on Libya without any authorization... read more
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FoxNews...
ObamaCare vs. the GOP
-- Score One for the White House, By Juan Williams
Published March 23, 2011 - When it comes to health care reform it is
amazing how times change – how polls change – how politics stays the
same. A year ago today , when President Obama signed his national
health care plan into law the polls showed most American opposed to it.
The bitterness born of phony charges of “death panels,” angry seniors
complaining about possible cuts in Medicare benefits and Tea Party
marchers screaming at members of Congress... read more
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Redstate...
The Fatal Flaw Of
The Federal Subsidy. Why Things Aren’t Swell In The Land of Pell.
Posted by Repair_Man_Jack (Profile) - Tuesday, March 22nd - An old
economic fallacy argues the following: Anything you subsidize, you get
more of. Sadly, like bloggers jumping the latest shred of rumor they
would like to believe, our political leadership decided that this
supposed truism was Too good to check! One example of where the foolish
fallacy has led to misery, involves the current state of the Pell Grant
Program... read more
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Townhall... Dud Deals in
California, By Debra J. Saunders
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Perhaps one of the most dangerous sentences in
the English language is: “It can’t get any worse.” Anyone who doesn’t
know that should not be trusted with sharp objects or political power.
And yet there are California Republican Party convention-goers who made
that claim in a city where everyone else asks what’s wrong with the
Republicans. On the one hand, hard-liners want... read more
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Human Events... Islamic Law in
Florida Court, by John Hayward
03/22/2011 - This is a bad idea, as the local mosque will tell you. The
Islamic Education Center of Tampa forced out several of its trustees
back in 2002. The trustees contested their eviction, and claim
they sat down with an Islamic scholar to arbitrate their
complaints. The arbitrator ruled in their favor, but the mosque
denied this arbitration was properly conducted, and did not accept the
decision... read more
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Townhall...
UN Intervention Into
Libya an Ominous Precedent For Israel, By Frank Gaffney
There are many reasons to be worried about the bridge-leap the Obama
Administration has just undertaken in its war with Muammar Gaddafi. How
it will all end is just one of them. Particularly concerning is the
prospect that what we might call the Gaddafi Precedent will be used in
the not-too-distant future to justify and threaten the use of U.S.
military forces against an American ally: Israel. Here’s how such a
seemingly impossible scenario might eventuate... read more
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Chillicothe
Gazette... John
Kasich’s budget cuts needed to be deep
Mar 20, 2011 - The proposal of any government budget usually comes in
stages: discussion about what might be in the proposal, the proposal,
the dissection/reaction, the debate, the revision and the approval. In
Ohio, we’re in the third stage of this process, and it promises to be a
doozy. Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday proposed his first budget -- a
774-page whopper that includes $55.5 billion worth of funding of Ohio
services for the next two years... read more
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Unemployment: The
True Picture, By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Published on DickMorris.com on March 21, 2011 - To paraphrase Mark
Twain, the three kinds of lies are lies, damn lies, and government
statistics. Governments lie, particularly about economic stats in
the middle of a recession and the Obama Bureau of Labor Statistics has
refined misrepresenting our economic situation to a high art form. In a
previous column, we reported that Rasmussen’s index... read more
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Hillarious
(or frightening)... ya gotta read it! Townhall... Rigor Please, By Mike Adams
For some time, I have made a habit of asking students their major (and
minor) immediately after they ask me a silly question. This is
necessary because I teach two basic studies courses per semester – both
populated by students from across the spectrum of academic disciplines.
I have found (consistently) that nearly all inane questions and
comments come from students in just a handful of academic majors. In
the past, I’ve gotten myself in hot water for suggesting... read more
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Truthout...
Congress Must Debate
the Libya War, by Robert Naiman
Monday 21 March 2011 - The US is now at war in a third Muslim country,
according to the “official tally” (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan
and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has
never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A
sharply disputed claim holds that the Pakistan and Yemen actions are
covered by the 2001 authorization of military force, but no one has
dared to argue that the 2001 authorization... read more
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Townhall... Are Charter Schools
the Education Solution? By Bruce Bialosky
There certainly hasn’t been a lack of ideas to reverse the malaise that
infests most of our K-12 school systems. In large municipal school
systems, charter schools – which many see as a partial solution – have
been fought tooth and nail by the education establishment. I’ve spent a
lot of time on L.A. Unified school campuses, but hadn’t yet visited a
charter school – which is why I recently toured... read more
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Townhall... Blue Over Green
Energy Promises, By David Limbaugh
The promises of pie-in-the-sky liberal environmentalists that we can
convert to “clean” energy sources and stimulate our economy are based
on dubious environmental and economic assumptions, fantastic notions
about alternative energy, and a disturbing acceptance of the tyrannies
inherent in command-control economies. It would be bad enough if
President Obama and his Democratic allies... read more
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Redstate...
This week is the
first anniversary of Obamacare, Posted by Moe Lane
Sunday, March 20th - And the Democrats are going to - very
entertainingly - try to put the best face on that particular electoral
disaster that they possibly can: they have a week’s worth of events
planned, apparently in the hope that the only thing wrong with their
party’s messaging thus far was that they did not speak loudly enough,
or slowly enough, or use small enough words, or any combination
thereof. They also plan to “shine a spotlight on Republicans who
have... read more
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Cleveland
Plain Dealer... An
Ohio budget to usher in leaner local government
By The Plain Dealer Editorial Board - Gov. John Kasich’s first budget
is a signal to every local government official in Ohio -- and to the
taxpayers they serve -- that this is a new era. Call it an age of
austerity. Or of simple realism. You don’t have to agree with Kasich on
everything -- and the budget certainly misfires on some things, notably
aid to public schools -- to know he’s right about one thing: Local
governments, libraries and school districts need to change... read more
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Townhall... Leadership from Gov.
Kasich, By Linda Chavez
Once in a blue moon, you find a politician willing to do the right
thing even if it means his popularity will plummet. Recently elected
Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, has announced a new budget for his
cash-strapped state, and voters are none too happy. Polls show his
approval rating at 40 percent, less than three months after he assumed
office. Ohio’s budget is more than $8 billion in the red, thanks to a
poor economy... read more
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Townhall... Honoring All our WWI
Heroes, By Ken Blackwell
President Obama and Vice President Biden this week paid an unannounced
visit to Arlington National Cemetery. They went there to offer the
thanks of a grateful nation for the service of Frank Buckles, the last
known survivor of the American “Doughboys” of World War I. Buckles was
barely 16 when he fibbed about his age to get into uniform. It is
altogether fitting and proper that they should do this... read more
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Townhall...
Radioactive Reporting,
By Rich Galen
Plutonium. Since the days of the Red Scare and Mutual Assured
Destruction I have been told that Plutonium is the most toxic substance
on earth. Watching the breathless reporting from and about Japan, I
suspect most of the anchors and reporters covering the nuclear plant
story believe that as well. It’s not so. Inhaling Plutonium is not like
getting a whiff of diesel fumes, but the long-held believe that the
tiniest speck would lead to cancer is just wrong... read more
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Reason...
Nuclear Disaster in
Japan, By Ronald Bailey
March 15, 2011 - Does it show a way forward for nuclear power? The
crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants continues.
Amazingly, a 40-year-old power plant built to withstand a 7.9 magnitude
earthquake on the Richter scale shut down automatically as designed
when the Earth began shaking. In fact, it stood up to an earthquake
that released more than 40 times the amount of energy the plant was
designed to survive. At the moment it appears that the... read more
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Reason... Atlas Shrugged: Is A
(the Movie) Really A (the Novel)? By Brian Doherty
The film should please fans, but might not please everyone. March 11,
2011 - The official release of the movie Atlas Shrugged Part One, based
on Ayn Rand’s controversial 1957 novel, is not until April 15. It then
begins a limited theatrical rollout in 11 American cities (which the
producers hope will grow from there). It has already been previewed to
selected audiences in Los Angeles, D.C., and New York... read more
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Townhall... Few Angels in the
Budget Brawl, by Debra J. Saunders
The White House Office of Management and Budget projects that this
year, mandatory spending will exceed federal revenue. Congress could
cut every dime of discretionary spending and Washington would still run
a deficit. Years ahead of forecasts, Social Security paid out more
money than it took in last year. So who in Washington is serious about
tackling the deficit and looming tidal... read more
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Townhall...
State Bankruptcy:
The Worst Idea Yet, By Jim Gilmore
We are witnessing unprecedented clashes and escalating political
rhetoric between cash-starved state governments and their public
service unions. The conflict has yielded the worst notion yet among an
array of increasingly painful potential solutions – declaring state
bankruptcy, among other reasons, to escape the onerous bonds of
contracts and accumulated promises made by multiple generations of
politicians of both parties. As a former Virginia governor, my
advice... read more
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Eagle Publications… Rising Gas
Prices and Obama’s Failure to Lead, by Newt Gingrich
A disturbing pattern has emerged during Barack Obama’s first term as
president. At the times when our nation most needs presidential
leadership, Barack Obama chooses to let others take the lead. We saw
this pattern begin in the early stages of his administration. The
country was beginning to slide into a deep recession, and bold action
was needed quickly to turn the tide. However, rather... read more
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Human Events... Rep. Randy
Forbes: ‘In God We Trust’, by Emily Miller
03/18/2011 - Rep Randy Forbes (R.-Va.) has spent four years fighting to
have Congress officially support the right to have the national motto
“In God We Trust” in government buildings and public schools. Forbes
won a big victory on Thursday when the House Judiciary Committee passed
his In God We Trust Resolution, which reaffirms the national motto and
supports and encourages the public... read more
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Columbus
Dispatch Editorial… Test
of leadership
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - Local officials, taxpayers will have to find
new ways to provide, pay for services - Ohio, along with other states,
is entering a new era in which the old assumption that government can
continue to spend more and do more every year no longer applies. That
doesn't mean, however, that Ohioans necessarily are going to like
getting less in the way of services from local and state government.
This sets up a challenge for public officials everywhere: The coming
years... read more
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Dayton
Daily News Editorial... Forcing
local tax increases not solution
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - Talk to local government officials on the
day after Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget was released, and many of
them are taken aback. They expected to get less from the state’s
so-called Local Government Fund. But some are flabbergasted that the
funding would drop by almost 50 percent over the next two years.
Remember that in 2005, when Republican Bob Taft was governor, local
governments went ballistic and beat back... read more
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Townhall...
Continuing Stubborn
Ignorance, By Walter E. Williams
Within the past decade, I’ve written three columns titled “Deception
101,” “Stubborn Ignorance,” and “Exploiting Public Ignorance,” all
explaining which branch of the federal government has taxing and
spending authority. How can academics, politicians, news media people
and ordinary citizens get away with statements such as “Reagan’s budget
deficits,” “Clinton’s budget surplus,” “Bush’s budget deficits and tax
cuts” or “Obama’s tax increases”? Which branch of government... read more
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Townhall... GOP Fear That
History Will Repeat Helps Ensure It Will, By David Limbaugh
Why is it that despite the Republicans’ resounding electoral victory in
2010 based on their promises for real change, many of us have a queasy
feeling they’re not quite measuring up to the task, even in the climate
of Democratic infighting and President Obama’s weaknesses? The Hill
reports that there is developing dissension between Obama and Senate
Democrats, whose respective... read more
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Human
Events... This is What
Happens When Republicans Get Milquetoast, by Erick Erickson
03/15/2011 - There is new polling out today making its way around the
bathrooms of House and Senate Republican leaders. After weeks and weeks
of bending over backwards to try to show they were willing to
compromise on everything, guess what? The public thinks the GOP hasn’t
been compromising enough. Perceived non-cooperation on the budget
deficit is one problem for the Republicans in Congress. Seventy-one
percent say the GOP is not willing enough to... read more
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Politico...
Could ‘No Child’ get
left behind? By Meredith Shiner
It’s one of the few areas in which Republicans, Democrats and the White
House might agree: The decade-old “No Child Left Behind” law needs to
be fixed. But congressional leaders, wary of last year’s legislative
battles, almost unanimously dismissed a fall deadline announced Monday
by President Barack Obama for passing a major education reform bill.
The path to any deal is littered with land mines: Congress is divided,
and Speaker John Boehner, one of the... read more
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Truthout...
Class Warfare, the
Final Chapter, by Michael Pirsch
Tuesday 15 March 2011 - “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my
class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” - Warren
Buffett to The New York Times, November 26, 2006. There is overwhelming
evidence that we are entering the final chapter of class warfare in the
US. Today, in the “public arena,” it is forbidden to say class warfare,
and many citizens do not regard themselves as working class. The
assault on language comes compliments... read more
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Townhall... GOP Should Heed
Lesson of 1991: No Guts, No Glory, By Byron York
In early March 1991, all the smart people in politics knew one thing
about the upcoming 1992 campaign: President George H.W. Bush was
unbeatable. Fresh from victory in the Gulf War, Bush enjoyed a
job-approval rating around 90 percent. At a time when potential
challengers should be enlisting supporters and planning campaigns,
Democrats who had been expected to challenge Bush... read more
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The
Columbus Dispatch... Democrats
watch their base shrink, By Thomas Suddes
Sunday, March 13, 2011 - Two grim dates confront Ohio Democrats. The
first was Nov. 2, when Republicans captured state government from top
to bottom. The other was last Wednesday, when newly released 2010
Census data revealed two Ohios - one, shrinking, in traditionally
Democratic counties, and another Ohio, growing in population, and in
traditionally Republican counties, such as: • Greater Cleveland’s
growth champion, Medina County. • A constellation of... read more
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Townhall...
To America’s
hot-to-protest college students, By Neal Boortz
Not sure about you, but I was absolutely thrilled last week when
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the legislation ending most
collective bargaining rights for government worker unions. The more
these government employee unions get slapped around by reality, the
happier I am. I want to talk about the college students we saw
protesting in Wisconsin ... but first, let me remind you that this
whole stink wasn’t really about collective bargaining rights. The real
foreign... read more
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Libertarian
Party... Press
falsely credits Republicans with “deep cuts”
WASHINGTON - The mainstream press is falsely crediting Republicans for
proposing “deep cuts” in federal spending. To fight back, the
Libertarian Party is promoting its “Republican Wall of Shame” with an
online ad in the Washington Post. Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle
said, “I can’t believe the press is saying Republicans are making deep
cuts. It’s just false.” On February 20, the Associated Press wrote,
“The Republican-led House has approved a spending... read more
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Politico...
Waivers at center of
health debate, By Sarah Kliff
3/14/11 - Exceptions may become the rule as the Affordable Care Act
heads into its second year. Officials at the Department of Health and
Human Services have approved no fewer than 1,040 requests for so-called
mini-med waivers, which would allow companies to cap their annual
payouts at a lower level than dictated by the law. And over the next
year, many states will seek a reprieve from two of the law’s most
wide-reaching provisions: the medical loss... read more
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Townhall... The Real Battle:
Makers v. Takers, By Lurita Doan
Ideological budget battles between GOP and Dems in congress mask the
real battle erupting across America-- the battle between the makers and
the takers. Entrepreneurs and other working Americans, the makers, are
growing tired of government’s rapacious hand in their financial pocket
and they are becoming more aggressive and more outspoken in their
protests. Dems should expect this... read more
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Human Events... House GOP Shuts
Down Failed TARP Mortgage Programs, by Emily Miller
03/10/2011 - The Republican House terminated a mortgage refinancing
program established by President Obama and rescinded $8 billion in TARP
funds designated for it. The “Federal Housing Administration
Refinance Program Termination Act” passed the House on Thursday by a
vote of 256-171, with 18 Democrats voting in favor of it. The
unspent money will go toward reducing the... read more
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Townhall...
We All Must
‘Sacrifice,’ Except the President’s Friends, By Austin Hill
We live at a time when all Americans must sacrifice. All, that is,
except those of us who can be politically helpful to our President as
he seeks re-election. Last month, President Barack Obama addressed a
gathering of the National Governor’s Association, wherein he suggested
that “shared sacrifice” should become a new catch-phrase, of sorts, for
America. “If all the pain is shared by one group,” the President noted,
“that’s not good for anyone.” In that same... read more
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Townhall...
Unions Skittish Over
Obama, By Salena Zito
Philadelphia – Three years ago, almost to the day, candidate Barack
Obama told an AFL-CIO convention here, “It’s time we had a president
who didn’t choke saying the word ‘union.’” Amid feverish chants of “Yes
we can!” he then threw the crowd the raw meat it wanted: his support
for the Employee Free Choice Act. “I will make it the law of the land
when I’m president of the United States,” Obama promised... read more
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Redstate...
Will Freshman House
Republicans Keep Their Promise?, Posted by Erick Erickson
Friday, March 11th - Editor's note:
The House passed the 3-week extension Tuesday
- House Republicans are unveiling their next short-term continuing
resolution today to keep the government from shutting down on March
18. It is a three week-extension, $6 billion in cuts with no new
policy riders. Sound good? It’s not. Realize what is going
on here. House Leadership unfortunately continues to be gripped
by fear of a government shutdown... read more
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Townhall... The 7 Greatest
Scientific Achievements Of The Last 50 Years, By John
Hawkins
We human beings tend to forget how far we’ve come as a species in a
relatively short period of time. In the 1870’s, we had the first house
that was lighted with electricity. Cars just started to become
available 100 years ago. Charles Lindbergh made the first transatlantic
flight in 1927. Televisions didn’t become widely available until after
WWII. In other words, the advances humankind has made... read more
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Townhall...
Win the Future or
Cement Ourselves in the Past? By Ross Mackenzie
Suddenly, the Libyan turmoil and its subsequent Obamian abdication of
leadership have led -- again -- to heightened fears about America’s
energy future. The national average price of a gallon of gasoline at
the pump has risen 33 cents to $3.51 in just two weeks. So here’s a
question: Where would our fears be, and that per-gallon price of
gasoline, if the country in turmoil were not Libya, which produces just
2 percent of global oil production, but Saudi Arabia? An answer is... read more
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Redstate...
Josh Mandel: A
candidate to get excited about, Posted by Erick Erickson
Thursday, March 10th - I have to be honest with you. With the exception
of Ted Cruz and Michael Williams in Texas and Jeff Flake in Arizona, I
am not really that excited about any of the Senate races this year.
There are few solid conservative rockstars out there. And yes, if you
are thinking I am ignoring candidate X in your state, I’ve thought of
them. They’re good. But they are no Rand Paul or Jeff Flake or Mike Lee
or Ted Cruz or Michael Williams. Good does not equate... read more
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Redstate...
CRS Report: U.S. is
Leader in Fossil Fuel Resources, Posted by dhorowitz3
Thursday, March 10th - Oil, gas, and coal are the energy sources of the
past, present, and future - While Obama continues his implacable war on
fossil fuels and campaigns for impotent and unreliable energy sources,
he incessantly condemns oil as ‘the energy of the past’. He is
obviously referring to his self-fulfilling dream of eradicating oil
from our economy; not the proven reality of our oil reserves.
According to the latest research by the Congressional Research... read more
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Townhall... Why NPR Should Urge
Congress to End Its Subsidy, By Michael Barone
What do they put in the water cooler over at NPR? First, they
fire Juan Williams in October for comments he made on Fox News Channel
-- and Vivian Schiller, the CEO of public radio, smilingly suggests he
needs to have his head examined. This week, a sting video shows NPR
Foundation President Ron Schiller (no relation) saying that tea party
activists were “seriously racist” and telling two purported... read more
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Townhall... Welcome to the Third
World, By Paul Driessen
As Britain suffered through its coldest December in a century, families
were forced to choose between keeping homes warm and feeding their
children nourishing meals – thanks to climate policies that have forced
extensive reliance on wind power and deliberately driven energy prices
skyward. Barely two months later, the UK’s power grid CEO informed the
country that its days of reliable electricity are... read more
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Townhall...
Mr. President: Lead
or Get Out of the Way! By Michael Reagan
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi is getting away with murder because the
president of the United States refuses to take action when that’s
exactly what is called for. Gadhafi is thumbing his nose at the alleged
leader of the Free World, leaving the crazed dictator free to slaughter
his own people in a frantic effort to save his dictatorship. It is hard
for me to examine President Obama’s current behavior without comparing
it to a similar crisis during my father President Reagan... read more
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New
York Times... The Case for a
No-Fly Zone, By Nicholas D. Kristof
“This is a pretty easy problem, for crying out loud.” For all the
hand-wringing in Washington about a no-fly zone over Libya, that’s the
verdict of Gen. Merrill McPeak, a former Air Force chief of staff. He
flew more than 6,000 hours, half in fighter aircraft, and helped
oversee no-fly zones in Iraq and the Adriatic, and he’s currently
mystified by what he calls the “wailing and gnashing of teeth” about
imposing such a zone on Libya. I called General McPeak to get his take
on a no-fly zone... read more
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Human
Events... White House
Takes on Bullying, but Not in the Mideast, by John Gizzi
03/10/2011 - Upon hearing that there would be a conference on bullying
prevention at the White House today, more than a few in the press corps
were speechless. At a time when the President talks about “living
within our means,” federal tax dollars are going to be spent on a
conference that many believe is a matter for families and local
schools. At the very worst, it is an issue to be dealt with by
local boards of education or municipalities. “If I didn’t know it was
for real, I would... read more
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Townhall...
GOP Presidential
Prospects Shaping into Two Tiers, By Rachel Alexander
Newt Gingrich’s resignation last week as a contributor to Fox News in
order to set up a political exploratory committee for president
establishes him early on as a serious contender for the GOP nomination.
Insiders say he is genuinely interested in running, and is not doing it
for the publicity. Gingrich has remained relevant in his
post-Congressional years with numerous ventures including writing
books, forming PACs, and becoming a frequent contributor to Fox News...
read more
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Townhall... Dance of the Tenured
Lemons, By Kyle Olson
Teacher tenure is considered holy gospel in most of America’s
public schools. But this policy does nothing for children, and tends to
protect teachers who don’t necessarily deserve job security. Why is it
we never hear stories about tenure protecting “good” teachers instead
of helping “bad” ones? One bad teacher was former band
instructor-turned convict Matt Lang, who is now... read more
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Townhall... Social Security: Why
America Can and Should Allow Private Accounts
By Howard Rich - The Social Security debate is no different than the
debate over any other government program – there are just a lot more
zeroes involved. Of course the more zeroes, the less willing Washington
politicians usually are to confront the problem – particularly when
so-called “guaranteed” benefits are at stake. Still, there are three
simple questions that can be asked of any... read more
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Cleveland
Plain Dealer... Lessons
from a wet basement: Kevin O’Brien, By Kevin OBrien, The
Plain Dealer
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 5:25 AM - I will not claim to know how John
Boehner feels. The speaker of the House has a nasty political problem
on his hands, and solving it may just take more distasteful and
politically unhealthy work than he’s willing to do -- even with the
help of a Tea Party-influenced freshman class that hasn’t had time to
“go native” in Washington yet. So I will suggest that what I know is
how some successor of his will feel -- probably not all that many... read more
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Next to Fall: Saudi
Arabia, By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Published on DickMorris.com on March 9, 2011 - We can do without
Libya’s two million barrels a day of oil albeit with significant
disruptions in the global economy. But if we lose Saudi Arabia’s
nine million, we will face a global catastrophe. And the Saudi monarchy
will be the next casualty of the Middle East revolutionary wave.
The king is 86 years old and very ill. The next two men in line
are both over 80 and both sick. And, behind those three in line
are 7,000... read more
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Libertarian
Party... War on
Drugs leads to gun smuggling nightmare
WASHINGTON - According to CBS, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been involved in undercover
operations to smuggle high-powered weapons into Mexico, probably as
some sort of tracking operation. Now many of those weapons are in the
hands of ruthless drug traffickers, which they are using to intimidate
and kill people. Libertarian Party chair Mark Hinkle issued this
statement today: “This is another sad chapter in the... read more
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Daily Events... A Thousand
Waivers, by John Hayward
Controlling the lifeboats of a ship that was designed to sink -
03/09/2011 - There are over a thousand waivers granting exemptions from
the ObamaCare disaster now. Among the latest recipients is the
entire state of Maine, which scored a valuable exemption from the
requirement that every insurance company must “spend 80 cents to 85
cents of every premium dollar on medical care... read more
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Daily Events... Wednesdays with
Emily Miller - Guantanamo, By Emily Miller
President Obama has spent the past two years trying to bring murderous
terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to the United States, failing only
because of Congress blocking his every move. In January 2009, Obama put
out an Executive Order that he would close Gitmo within one year. The
American people and their representatives in Congress refused to allow
him to give terrorists... read more
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How to Shut Down the
Government, By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
March 7, 2011 - At some point, the Administration will run out of cuts
that it can live with and the Republican House will have to decide
whether to shut down the government by refusing to vote for ongoing
Continuing Resolutions. The decision will be easy: either
shutdown or shut up! There is no way the GOP can have any ongoing
leverage if it refuses to close things down once Obama says no to
further budget cuts. The question is: How can the Republicans shut
down... read more
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Townhall... Union Myths,
By Thomas Sowell
The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers.
Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and
politicians are for politicians. Nothing shows the utter cynicism of
the unions and the politicians who do their bidding like the so-called
“Employee Free Choice Act” that the Obama administration tried to push
through Congress. Employees’ free... read more
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Townhall... The $50,000 Orgasm,
By Dennis Prager
On Feb. 21, the 600 Northwestern University students enrolled in the
popular Human Sexuality course taught by professor John Michael Bailey
were told that if they wished to stay after class -- it was clearly
made optional -- they would see a live demonstration of female
ejaculation, the subject of that day’s class. A naked young woman (not
a student) would demonstrate... read more
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Family Events... Education
Reform Begins at Home, By Marybeth Hicks
Parents and teachers should be on the same team. Most of us recall a
time when parents didn’t question their children’s teachers. If a
teacher called home to discuss bad behavior or poor effort on the part
of a student, his mom and dad were solidly in the teacher’s corner –
and if that student was you, you pretty much knew you were in big
trouble. That’s not how it works these days... read more
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From
Redstate... Blame the
Democrats for High Gas Prices, Posted by Erick Erickson
Monday, March 7th - In the Atlanta area, where I am, gas prices are up
$0.77 from where they were a year ago. It is worth noting that
Democrats have been politicizing and blocking expanded oil drilling for
quite some time. Consider this: “Critics (of Arctic drilling),
including Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., say the drilling plan would
violate the nation’s last remaining pristine wilderness. Moreover, they
charge, the oil would consist of a 6-month supply for the nation... read more
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Townhall...
5 Reasons Unions Are
Bad For America, By John Hawkins
At one time in this country, there were few workplace safety laws, few
restraints on employers, and incredibly exploitive working conditions
that ranged from slavery, to share cropping, to putting children in
dangerous working conditions. Unions, to their everlasting credit,
helped play an important role in leveling the playing field for
workers. However, as the laws changed, there was less and less need for
unions. Because of that, union membership shrank. In response... read more
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Cleveland Plain Dealer... Ohio’s
rogue prescription crisis
By Plain Dealer guest columnist, Mike DeWine, Ohio Attorney General -
Tuesday, March 08, 2011 - Ohio’s families and communities are under
siege by the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs. A recent
execution-style double homicide in Ashtabula County is the latest link
in a disturbing chain of prescription drug-fueled crimes. The Ashtabula
County sheriff said that the... read more
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Townhall... Who’s to Blame For
Union Woes? By Michael Barone
The labor union movement is in deep trouble. Only 6 percent of
private-sector employees are union members. Voters are beginning to
realize, thanks to governors like Chris Christie of New Jersey and
Scott Walker of Wisconsin, that public-sector unions have negotiated
unsustainable levels of pensions and benefits -- and that public-sector
unions are a mechanism for involuntary transfers of... read more
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Townhall... Obama’s Best Sport:
Kicking the Can, By Lurita Doan
Obama’s recent announcement that he will appoint a commission to
propose and possibly oversee the closing and sale of obsolete federal
buildings is yet another delaying tactic which allows Team Obama to
wear the mantle of fiscal hawks, serious about cost-cutting, while
delaying the need for immediate action to reduce the ever-ballooning
deficit. Kicking the can down the road to delay... read more
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Reaction: Dayton Daily News… Editorial:
Kasich needs to be bold and effective
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - There was no danger of the cameras catching
anyone sleeping during Gov. John Kasich’s first State of the State
speech Tuesday, March 8. What it lacked in polished oratory, it made up
for with energy and passion. About the substance: He was absolutely
right that his first seven weeks in office — which, he joked, may seem
like seven... read more
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Reaction: The Columbus Dispatch... Editorial: State of the state
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - Speech gave outline of dramatic changes in
store for Ohio - In his State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov.
John Kasich’s message was plain-spoken, passionate and clear: Dramatic
change is in store for Ohio. Not that this is a surprise. He’s been
saying as much for the past year, and in his first few weeks in office,
he already has begun... read more
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Dayton
Daily News... 5 important
questions about pension reform
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - What is driving the demand for reform? How do
public pensions differ from private-sector pensions? How do the public
pension systems impact taxpayers? What do public employees say about
demands for reform? Q. How do the public pensions systems impact the
economy?... read more
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Akron
Beacon Journal... Liberal
rage, Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011
A comparison to Hitler and Stalin, an outburst in a restaurant - Gov.
John Kasich and Statehouse Republicans have ignited an intense
discussion, their effort to revamp three decades of
collective-bargaining law striking at the core of Democratic Party
constituencies. So there is fury, frustration and hyperbole — on both
sides. One line that shouldn’t be crossed is linking the other side to
Hitler and Stalin. Yet, that is just what U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown... read more
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Human Events... Tapping the
Reserve, by John Hayward
03/08/2011 - The soccer mom returns with a vengeance. If you’ve been to
the gas station recently… well, I’d better give you a moment to sit
down and recover from the shock. Take a few deep breaths.
Go to your happy place. As I was saying, if you’ve been to the gas
station recently, you’ve noticed prices at the pump are
skyrocketing. AAA reports the current national average... read more
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From Human Events... The Return
of the Balanced Budget Amendment, by Jason Mattera
03/07/2011 - “The balanced budget amendment has good aspects, but it is
simply not good enough in dealing with fundamental constitutional
change for our country.” And thus with that 23-word statement in 1997,
Democrat Sen. Robert Torricelli of New Jersey sunk conservative
spirits. No longer did the U.S. Senate have the two-thirds it needed to
enshrine a fundamental principle of governing into... read more
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The
Columbus Dispatch... Joe
Hallett commentary: How much pain? We’ll know soon, By Joe
Hallett
Sunday, March 6, 2011 - Julius Caesar met his demise on the Ides of
March, and now, 2,055 years later, that date has an ominous appointment
with Ohio. On March 15, Gov. John Kasich will unveil his two-year
budget, beginning an era in which virtually every Ohio resident and
entity - corporations and small businesses, hospitals and nursing
homes, universities and local schools, counties and cities and
townships - will have to get along with less... read more
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Townhall... Recalculating the
Odds: Obama and DOMA, By Ken Connor
During his campaign, Candidate Barack Obama repeatedly cited his
opposition to same sex marriage. On the Human Rights Campaign’s 2008
Presidential Survey, he stated, “I do not support gay marriage.
Marriage has religious and social connotations, and I consider marriage
to be between a man and a woman.” Despite his formerly firm
convictions, the President has now decided that... read more
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Townhall… First the Public
Service, Then Endless Litigation, By Debra J. Saunders
Last month, the website Politico reported that the Department of
Justice dropped its representation of former Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, his former deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, and other defendants in a
lawsuit filed by convicted al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and his
mother. The Department of Justice continues to represent Defense
Secretary Robert... read more
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MOAA...
New Budget Rules
Could
Mean Gridlock
Republicans in control of the House and Democrats in control of the
Senate have approved dramatically different budget rules for the 112th
Congress that would appear to make it difficult for them to reach
agreements on almost any major budget changes without major compromises
by one or the other or both. The most important change in the House was
to replace the “pay-as-you-go” (PAYGO) spending rule with the
“cut-as-you-go” (cut-go) policy. Under the PAYGO... read more
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Townhall...
A Word of Warning
for Hill Republicans, By Carol Platt Liebau
After the past few weeks, many GOP conservatives – and Tea Partiers –
are beginning to understand how some of the Obamaphiles feel. Like
Obama supporters, conservatives worked hard to secure leadership that,
we believed, both understood what was best for America and had the
courage to stand firm for real change. But the first months of GOP
congressional control have been disappointing; if the GOP leadership
continues down its current... read more
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Redstate...
Reid’s
Obstructionism May Cause Government Shutdown
Posted by Brian Darling - Saturday, March 5th - Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid (D-NV) may cause a government shutdown. Senator Reid is
employing a procedural strategy to deal with the House-passed long-term
Continuing Resolution (CR), H.R. 1, that may make it more likely that
the federal government will shut down when the government runs out of
money on March 18. Remember this when we get closer to March 18 and
both parties blame each... read more
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Townhall... Obama Irrelevant on
World Stage, By Linda Chavez
Two years into his presidency, the man who promised to restore
America’s standing in world public opinion has rendered himself
personally irrelevant on the world stage. President Obama came into
office more popular abroad than he was even at home, where he won a
resounding election victory. European crowds thronged his speeches;
leaders complimented him on his cultural sensitivity; the foreign... read more
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Townhall... Status of the Union,
By Paul Jacob
The United States of America constitutes the largest economy in the
world. We’re number one! Stephen Pope in a Market Mind post last week
at Forbes.com goes further, arguing that “the US is not just the
world’s largest economy. It has the largest and most sophisticated
military and the leading entrepreneurial mind set driven by access
technology, engineering and market research data... read more
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Obama’s Legacy:
Stagflation, By Dick Morris
Published on TheHill.com on March 1, 2011 - Obama’s failure to support
America’s allies in the Middle East and his dithering endorsement of
chaos in the region will send oil and gasoline prices skyrocketing,
triggering a massive bout of stagflation. This vicious cycle of rising
prices, decreased consumption, and ever higher prices (as vendors seek
to recover higher fixed costs) will cripple the American economy for
years to come. This is Obama’s true legacy... read more
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Townhall...
Look for the Union
Label, By Bill O’Reilly
In order to form a more perfect union, many of my ancestors joined one.
My maternal grandfather was a train conductor; my paternal grandfather,
a New York City police officer; my uncle, a fire captain in the Big
Apple. Around my dinner table as a kid, working people were revered and
evil corporate bosses were vilified. Unions were big in Levittown, N.Y.
I am a union guy, as well. AFTRA (the American Federation of Television
and Radio Artists) has represented me... read more
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Townhall... Reckless, Quixotic
Fantasies, By David Limbaugh
At what point do environmentalist liberals become accountable for the
results of their policies instead of their allegedly good intentions?
Why isn’t President Obama held accountable for his ideologically based
interference with lower oil prices? Obama has repeatedly shown his
willingness to use his executive authority discriminatorily to
implement his preferred environmental policies. On the presidential... read more
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Redstate...
Senator Sherrod
Brown (D-OH) Meets Hitler, by Erick Erickson
Thursday, March 3rd - Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is not a Nazi. But
he has a history of voting for policies the Nazis championed. But he is
not a Nazi. Nor is he Nazi like. He just likes a lot of policies the
Nazis championed. That’s not hyperbole. That is actual fact. I wouldn’t
bring this up except Sherrod Brown is calling Jim DeMint and Scott
Walker “nazis” except they, just like Sherrod Brown, are not Nazis. Or
something like that. Senator Brown... read more
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Townhall... The House GOP
Forfeits The Strategic Advantage of Time, by Hugh Hewitt
Four months ago the nation’s voters gave John Boehner and the House GOP
he leads a massive mandate to change the fiscal direction of the United
States. Nothing could have been clearer from the red tide that swelled
and rolled across the country. The “stimulus” and the bailouts were
disgusting average Americans, and Obamacare’s massive new costs were
frightening them... read more
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Human Events... A Bad Day For
ObamaCare, by John Hayward
Trillion-dollar legislation disintegrates before our eyes - 03/04/2011
- Thursday was a tough day for ObamaCare. In the most spectacular
news, Judge Roger Vinson clarified his earlier ruling on Thursday,
explaining that he did indeed strike down the entire law as
unconstitutional, so it can’t be implemented against any of the 26
states that were party to the suit he ruled on. Vinson was
brutally dismissive... read more
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Townhall... America’s College
Obsession, By Mona Charen
Andy Ferguson, one of America’s most engaging and perspicacious
journalists, has not -- as Andre Malraux said of Whittaker Chambers --
returned from the hell of college admissions with empty hands. In
“Crazy U,” his chronicle of his son’s senior year of high school -- a
year of college visiting, application, essay writing, open-house
attending, interviewing, financial aid seeking, and waiting... read more
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Truthout...
Really Bad Reporting
in Wisconsin: Who “Contributes” to Public Workers’ Pensions?
by David Cay Johnston - Thursday 24 February 2011 - When it comes to
improving public understanding of tax policy, nothing has been more
troubling than the deeply flawed coverage of the Wisconsin state
employees’ fight over collective bargaining. Economic nonsense is being
reported as fact in most of the news reports on the Wisconsin dispute,
the product of a breakdown of skepticism among journalists multiplied
by their lack of understanding of basic economic principles... read more
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Investors.com...
How Green Is
Your Lost Job?
Posted 03/01/2011 - Power: A study of renewable energy in Scotland
shows that for every job created in the alternative energy sector,
almost four jobs are lost in the rest of the economy. We’ve seen this
movie before. Not only has the sun set on the British Empire, but the
promise of wind apparently is deserting it as well. A new study called
“Worth The Candle?” by the consulting firm Verso Economics confirms the
experience of Spain and other countries: The creation... read more
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The
Columbus Dispatch... Unused
sick days should not spell “jackpot” for public-sector workers
Editorial: Unhealthy - Thursday, March 3, 2011 - Public-sector workers
enjoy a number of perks that most workers in the private sector don’t,
and one of the hardest to justify is a sick-leave system that allows
employees to amass mountains of unused days and turn them into a
substantial cash bonus upon retirement. For most employees in the
private sector, sick leave is a humane benefit allowing workers to
receive pay when they’re too sick to work... read more
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Townhall... Oh, to Be a Teacher
in Milwaukee!, By Paul Greenberg
Leave it to a prof at the University of Arkansas -- specifically, an
economist in its Department of Education Reform -- to go to the heart
(and guts) of what all the fuss is about in Wisconsin. His name is Bob
Costrell, and he’s put his finger and calculator on the essence of that
state’s problem. In an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal last
week, the professor detailed the sweet deals... read more
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Family Events... Our kids must
learn to “give a little whistle...” by Marybeth Hicks
Just before she magically drifts out the window and into the stars, the
Blue Fairy famously smiles at the affable Jiminy Cricket and then gives
a word of advice to Geppetto’s endearing little puppet. “Now, remember,
Pinocchio: be a good boy. And always let your conscience be your
guide.” Of course, we all know what happens next. Temptations lead our
wooden hero down the... read more
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Townhall... Yep, It’s Still the
Economy, Stupid, By Donald Lambro
WASHINGTON -- No doubt by now you’ve heard the story on the
nightly news that the Obama economy grew at a weaker pace in the fourth
quarter than was previously expected. What’s that, you say? You didn’t
hear that on the evening news? I wonder why. Maybe the big three
networks in New York didn’t want you to know that a revised analysis of
the last three months of 2010... read more
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Townhall... Except February
Which Stands Alone, By Rich Galen
Why does February only have 28 days - not just one, but two or
three fewer than all of its monthly cousins? I saw “The King’s Speech”
yesterday at the 12:30 showing playing at the Old Town Theater. The Old
Town Theater is unique in that the posted starting time of a movie is
often but a suggestion because the staff may still be selling tickets
and refreshments before running... read more
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Daily Events… “Bags of Scum Have
Free Speech Rights, Too” By Adam Tragone
I couldn’t have said it better myself, John. To be sure, many of us are
sharing the same feelings about this morning’s Supreme Court decision
that ruled in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church. Of course, we all
realize that free speech is protected for every one of us thanks to the
First Amendment, but there is a part of every decent person that
cringes at the sight of the language and... read more
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Townhall... So Refreshing --
Congress Doing Its Job, By Phyllis Schlafly
Republican members of the House, goaded on by tea partiers, have made a
good start in fulfilling their promise to cut $100 billion out of
current spending of taxpayers’ money. The House approved 66 amendments,
most on roll-call votes, to H.R. 1, the Full-Year Continuing
Appropriations Act for FY 2011. Here is a sampling of those 66
amendments, which are only a drop in the
bucket for dealing with the federal deficit, but they reveal some of
the nonsense now imbedded... read more
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Human Events... Voting for the
National Interest, Not Self-Interest, by Michael Barone
02/28/2011 - It’s a question that puzzles most liberals and bothers
some conservatives. Why are so many modest-income white voters
rejecting the Obama Democrats’ policies of economic redistribution and
embracing the small-government policies of the tea party movement? It’s
not supposed to work out that way, say the political scientists and New
Deal historians. Politics is supposed to be about who... read more
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Human Events... Runaway Trains
of Bureaucracy, by John Hayward
Unstoppable machinery produces disaster when it crashes. 03/01/2011 -
The General Accounting Office is preparing to drop a devastating
financial report on Congress, identifying hundreds of billions in
government waste due to “duplication, overlap, and
fragmentation.” Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is not
surprised. “Go study that report,” he advised Trish Turner of Fox
News. “It will show why... read more
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Townhall.com...
Have You Noticed
That “Big Government” Is Failing Everywhere?
By Austin Hill - “Big government” is failing around the globe. From
Sacramento to Saudi Arabia , big, controlling, impersonal and coercive
government is failing to fulfill the most basic human needs of the
people it is purports to serve. And while scores of individuals around
the world struggle to free themselves of “big government’s” shackles -
some in the Middle East even losing their lives in the process - many
of my fellow Americans have been gathering... read more
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Townhall.com... Wind Power:
Questionable Benefits, Concealed Impacts, By Paul Driessen
America is running out of natural gas. Prices will soar, making
imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) and T Boone Pickens’ wind farm
plan practical, affordable and inevitable. That was then. Barely two
years later, America (and the world) are tapping vast, previously
undreamed-of energy riches – as drillers discover how to produce gas
from shale, coal and tight sandstone formations, at reasonable cost.
They... read more
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Townhall...
Getting Schooled in
Wisconsin, By Bill O’Reilly
Here’s a lesson that is both ironic and sad at the same time.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, two-thirds of the eighth
graders in Wisconsin cannot read proficiently. But assuming the kids
are skilled enough to watch TV, they can now see their teachers
demonstrating to keep their generous union benefits. So while things do
not seem to be going well in the classroom, any thought of holding
teachers somewhat responsible is cause for a protest march... read more
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Truthout... You Have More Money
in Your Wallet Than BofA Pays in Federal Taxes
by Zaid Jilani - Today, hundreds of thousands of people comprising a
Main Street Movement — a coalition of students, the retired, union
workers, public employees, and other middle class Americans — are in
the streets, demonstrating against brutal cuts to public services and
crackdowns on organized labor being pushed by conservative politicians.
These lawmakers that are... read more
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Townhall... Contraception is Not
the Solution, By Kathryn Lopez
Why are Republicans waging war on contraception? It’s not the first
time the question has been asked, and it won’t be the last. Truth be
told, Republicans aren’t engaging in battle on that front -- but the
phrase gets close to a legitimate fight. Congress, for its part, held
an unprecedented vote in the House in February to end funding of
Planned Parenthood. It’s not a permanent or final vote... read more
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