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Townhall
Finance... Obama’s
No
Bob Hope, by Bill Tatro
Please tell me I didn’t hear what I thought heard. Please
tell me
the President of the United States didn’t say what I thought he said.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but did I just hear President Obama say that
he deserves five more years in office? Many years ago my parents
watched every television program in which Bob
Hope performed; it seemed they never missed a show. In fact, my father
had been entertained by Bob Hope on the front lines
during WWII. My dad often talked about Hope bravely... read
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Townhall... Who
Is Policing the
Food Police?, by Susan Brown
Feb 25, 2012 - President and Mrs. Obama seem to be terrific parents and
should be
commended for the steps they have taken to improve the health and
well-being of America’s kids. Back in December 2010, President Obama
signed the “Healthy, Hunger Free Children Act” into law, and in January
2012, the First Lady, in partnership with U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, unveiled a set of new school
meal standards... read
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Toledo
Blade... It’s
complicated
Americans are told that the rising price of gasoline is either
inevitable or, Republicans say, a result of President Obama’s
mismanagement of America’s energy resources -- particularly his refusal
to “drill, baby, drill.” The truth is harder to arrive at and, as
usual, more complicated than talk-show pundits and politicians might
suggest. Wall Street and other financial centers see opportunities in
speculation in future oil investments. They scan the daily news,
looking for some development... read
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Human Events... The
$4 Billion
ObamaCare slush fund for progressives, by
Michelle Malkin
02/24/2012 - If you like how the Obama administration’s
multibillion-dollar “investments” in bankrupt solar companies have
turned out, you’ll love the latest federal loan program to nowhere.
It’s the Obamacare loyalty rewards program for progressives. To appease
liberal Democrats pushing for the so-called “public option” (the full
frontal government takeover of our health care system), the White House
settled for... read
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Cleveland
Plain Dealer... Tests
don’t measure teachers: Jay Gillen
If we really care about the education of young people in poverty, we
will stop focusing on test results and pay much more attention to the
quality of life students and families endure. The more their parents
and the students themselves are employed, the better their housing and
transportation, the better their health care and nutrition, the more
they learn. Propaganda for testing and fear, however, recently got a
boost from
media coverage of a well-publicized study out of Harvard and
Columbia... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Obama
wants
a tax fight, by Michael Becker
So CBS is reporting that the President wants a fight over taxes in the
upcoming election and he’s proposing a new corporate tax scheme that
will supposedly lower the rate to 28% and close some “loopholes”. Ummm
hmmm. The devil, as always with things from Washington, will be found
in the details. Remember Nancy Pelosi telling us that “Healthcare
Reform needed to be passed so we could... read
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Townhall
Finance... Renting
Said
to be Smart in the Obama Economy; No, It’s Russian Roulette
by Fritz Pfister - Economics Professor Richard Judd said on my radio
program this week to be prepared for Bernanke to implement QE III this
year. Printing money will devalue a dollar already down 30% since 2001.
Printing money when there’s no demand for it ultimately leads to
inflation and higher interest rates. Barack Obama said in his speech at
Osawatomie that: “Limited government and free market economies don’t
work, and never have.” That is straight from Hugo Chavez’s playbook.
Obama... read
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Townhall Finance... Barack
‘All
of the Above’ Obama, by Larry Kudlow
President Obama fought back against rising oil and retail gas prices in
a speech in Florida on Thursday. But it was a curious speech. He
started out by mocking Republicans, stating that GOP candidates are
licking their chops as gasoline prices rocket up. He said, “They are
already dusting off their three-point plans for $2 gas. I’ll save you
the suspense: Step one is drill, step two is drill, and step three is
keep drilling... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Obama
to law
enforcement: Stop linking Muslims to terrorism
by Jim Kouri, Law Enforcement Examiner - In yet another curtsy to the
politically correct orthodoxy, President Barack Obama’s White House
plans to tinker with federal police curriculums for counterterrorism
training classes, according to a Beltway public-interest organization.
The first bit of “revamping” is the removal of all material that
groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations , or CAIR,
find offensive or containing a “negative” image of Muslims. It’s a
government... read
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Townhall... Just
Say No to
Health Insurance, by Rachel Alexander
Feb 24, 2012 - Everyone talks about reforming health insurance while
ignoring a better alternative: healthcare risk pools. Powerful
lobbyists for the healthcare insurance industry have convinced
politicians to perpetuate the current system of health insurance,
hoping that minor tweaks will solve the escalating crisis. Conservative
think tanks have even bought into the system due to heavy funding by
insurance companies... read
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The
EPA’s
Regulatory
Avalanche, By Kathleen Hartnett White
The nation’s most powerful regulatory agency, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), is on a collision course with America’s still
fragile economic recovery. As I outlined in a report published Monday
by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, 10 to 25 major EPA rules are
scheduled to take effect over the next few years, each with a
multi-billion dollar price tag and highly debatable benefits for public
health. In 2010, EPA regulations accounted for $23 billion of the
estimated... read
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Mail Magazine 24... The
Food
Police, by Ben Shapiro
In Hoke County, North Carolina, a four-year-old girl brought her
homemade lunch to school. It contained a turkey and cheese sandwich,
apple juice, potato chips, and a banana. All hell broke loose. A state
inspector pounced on the lunch as though he’d found a loose land mine
in the pre-school. He decided that the lunch didn’t contain all the
relevant parts of the complete meal, and that the girl needed a... read
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Redstate...
Do
Republicans
Care
About the Deficit or Not? Posted by Daniel
Horowitz
Thursday, February 16th - Republicans who seek our support during an
election cycle declare emphatically that they will deal with the
deficit upon being elected. Once elected, however, they far
too
often evince nothing but apathy towards efforts to solve our budget
crisis. Worse yet, they even work assiduously to create new
deficits. Ever since Republicans won control of the House in 2010,
instead of looking for spending cuts to offset existing deficits, they
are constantly looking for ways... read
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Human Events... President
Fundraiser is on the move, by John Hayward
8 million-dollar events in 3 days - 02/17/2012 - The Oval Office sits
empty, as President Obama invests most of his time in running for
re-election. Even his “2013 budget proposal” was nothing more
than a campaign document. Any resemblance between that
proposal
and a serious attempt to perform the duties of governing was purely
coincidental. And remember, his previous budgets were equally
absurd... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Obama’s
Peculiar Idea
of Fairness, by Joseph Klein
President Obama is making his call for “fairness” and for “everybody to
play by the same rules” the central theme of his re-election campaign.
Those platitudes may sound nice on the campaign trail, but Obama’s
policies are neither fair nor even-handed. For example, President Obama
is taking $500 billion from the elderly
via planned cuts to Medicare in order to help fund his massive new
Obamacare entitlement program. A wealthy female employee will have the
government-mandated right to... read
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Townhall... The
New Blacklist,
by Pat Buchanan
Feb 17, 2012 - My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an
end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant
clamor
from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of
MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous. The
calls for my firing began almost immediately with the Oct. 18
publication of “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to
2025?”... read
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Redstate...
Never
let it be
said
that Obama takes governing seriously, Posted
by Soren
Dayton
Thursday, February 16th - Last night President Barack Obama spoke at
two “star-studded” Hollywood fundraisers. And, according to Politco, he
noted to a group of people who make their quite nice livings in
theatrics that “people … like … poetry” rather than the “prose” of
governing. Mentioning former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo’s quip that
politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose, Obama said he’s
written more of the latter than the former in his first three years in
office. ”We’ve been... read
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Townhall... Rationing
our Rights,
by Ken Blackwell
Feb 18, 2012 - They said it would never lead to rationing. But
rationing is already here. Under the latest assault by the Obama
administration, they are rationing our rights. Tens of millions of
Catholics—and tens of millions of the rest of us—are having our
religious liberty crushed by the latest health care mandate from HHS.
The legislation that President Obama signed with a flourish in 2010 was
supported by not... read
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Townhall...
Numbers
Suggest
Santorum Could Be Romney’s Worst Nightmare, by
Scott
Rasmussen
Feb 17, 2012 - In a campaign defined by Republican reluctance to
embrace Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum has emerged as the latest not-Romney
candidate to surge ahead. While it’s impossible to predict what will
happen in this volatile election season, the data suggests that
Santorum might be more of a challenge for Romney than earlier flavors
of the month. The latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the GOP race shows
that Rick Santorum leads Mitt Romney by 12 points, 39 percent to 27
percent... read
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Townhall... Taxing
Medical
Progress to Death, by Michelle Malkin
Feb 17, 2012 - Two years ago this month, as public debate over
Obamacare raged, former President Bill Clinton rushed to the hospital
because of a heart condition. He immediately underwent a procedure to
place two stents in one of his coronary arteries. It was a timely
reminder about the dangers of stifling private-sector medical
innovation. No one listened. Stents don’t grow on trees. They were not
created, developed... read
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Townhall
Finance... The
Price of
A Gallon of Gas, by Jeff Carter
Gas prices are up over the last three years. There are economic reasons
why, and it’s not demand driven. A lot goes into the price of a gallon
of gas. They are talking $4 buck per gallon gas this summer. All people
have to do is come to Chicago and you can pay $4 today! Most of the
cost is taxes. Ironically, as the media fans the fear flames of higher
gas prices, Congress is deliberating a new highway bill. Highway bills
are among the most pork laden bills passed in Congress. A Christmas
tree of... read
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Verities & Balderdash... Politics
really can make you smile
Edited by Bob Robinson - A balanced look at two potential candidates in
November… Coffee Hurts I was eating lunch on the 20th of February last
year with my 3-year-old granddaughter and I asked her, “What day is
tomorrow?” She said, “It’s Presidents’ Day!” She is a smart kid, so I
asked, “What does Presidents’ Day mean?” I was expecting something
about Washington or Lincoln, etc... read
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Christian
Science Monitor... Young
people, post recession: Ready to launch?
Post-recession data and the government’s pro-elderly policies don’t
give much hope to Millennials. Yet they remain surprisingly
optimistic. By the Monitor’s Editorial Board, February 15,
2012 -
It may be getting really old to be young in America. That is in large
part because of the lingering aftereffects of the Great Recession on
people who are between the ages of 18 and 34, according to recent data.
More than a quarter of that group, for example, now live with a parent.
During the recession... read
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Townhall Finance... A
Case Study
in Energy Regs Gone Mad, by Bob Beauprez
When Barack Obama promised that his non-energy energy policies would
“bankrupt” anyone foolish enough to try to operate a coal-fired power
plant, he talked as if he would only inflict pain on some inanimate
structure of concrete and steel. Clever politician that he
is, he
depersonalized his war on fossil fuels all in the name of saving the
planet. What he didn’t mention, of course, is that real people work at
these... read
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Townhall...
Obama’s
Epic
Screw-Up,
by Michael Gerson
Feb 14, 2012 - WASHINGTON -- Before Barack Obama can defeat his
opponents he must first be rescued from his friends. Some of them are
now suggesting that his contraceptive mandate on religious institutions
was a skilled political stratagem. “I’ve found by observing this
president closely for years,” argues Andrew Sullivan, “that what often
seem like short-term tactical blunders turn out in the long run to be
strategically shrewd. And if this was a trap, the religious right
walked right into it.” Religious... read
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Townhall... Budget
Fiction and
Failings, by Bob Beauprez
Barack Obama delivered his new budget proposal to Congress this
morning. The document increases yet again the estimate for deficit
spending for the current FY 2012 year - $1.33
trillion. If
even close to accurate, when this fiscal year ends, Obama
will
have presided over four consecutive annual deficits in excess of $1
trillion – each one nearly three times larger than any previous annual
deficit in U.S. history... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Dependence
on Government at All-Time High
Government Dependence Surges 23% Under Obama - The 2012 Index of
Dependence on Government, released today, should be a wake-up call for
America. Published by The Heritage Foundation for the past 10 years,
the Index tracks the growth in government dependence dating back to the
early 1960s. This year’s edition shows an alarming trend. Among the
most troubling facts: One in five Americans—the highest in the nation’s
history—relies on the federal government for everything from housing...
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Townhall... The
Free Lunch Is
Back. by Mona Charen
Feb 14, 2012 - Leaving aside the blatant assault on religious liberty
that the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate represents (a
number of commentators have ably elucidated the assault on free
exercise), the edict ought to offend all sensible Americans for its
sheer economic and moral fatuousness. In this case, “moral” refers to
moral hazard, i.e., unintentionally encouraging bad behavior. But... read
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Townhall
Finance... Charge!,
By Charles Payne
February 12, 2012 - Half a league half a league, Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: ‘Forward, the Light
Brigade! Charge for the guns’ he said: Into the valley of Death Rode
the six hundred. Charge of the Light Brigade... Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
- Miscommunication in the Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 sent
600 British soldiers to their deaths during the Crimean War. Many
believe the word “charge” is itself the way to self-destruction,
especially when it comes... read
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Human Events... The
Volt
Re-Evaluated: $250,000 Per Car Behold the
magic of
government subsidies
by John Hayward - I’ve long been fascinated by the sad tale of the
Chevy Volt, a heavily subsidized electric car nobody wants. It’s one of
the purest, most perfect examples of government attempting to
artificially create a marketplace, and failing miserably.
At the time of the Volt’s launch, when rebates brought the consumer
price down to $33,500 (which is still horribly high for such a tiny,
unappealing car, and doesn’t factor in the enormous maintenance... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Are
High
Taxes Driving the Wealthy Out of States and Out of the Country?
by Ken Marrero - FrontPageMag.Com is reporting on what it’s dubbed “The
1% Exodus;” wealthy Americans fleeing increased taxes. Missing
millionaires are also reported in Maryland, New York, New Jersey and
other states raising taxes on the wealthy. Explanations have fallen
along ideological and partisan lines. The one thing agreed on, however,
is that there are fewer wealthy folks in states which tax them higher.
It’s said the missing millionaires are: Transients – those who enjoyed
a... read
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Mail Magazine 24... U.S.
Supreme
Court Justice insults U.S. Constitution
Every Supreme Court justice is required, under Article VI of the United
States Constitution, to be bound by his or her oath or affirmation “to
support this Constitution.” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
has just broken this commitment by insulting, in front of a foreign
audience, the very document she is sworn to support. In an interview
during her visit to Cairo, which aired January 30, 2012 on... read
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Business
& Media Institute... Drill
There, Build Here, Now! By Dan Gainor Monday
Media buy lefty shtick on Keystone pipeline, accept Obama as
pro-energy. February 06, 2012 - Four years ago, global tensions were
rising and gas was on its way to a mid-July peak of $4.11 per gallon.
Conservative leaders called for a nationwide push to access our energy
resources - long denied by the eco-nuts. The campaign to “Drill Here,
Drill Now,” was a rallying cry throughout 2008. Even martial arts tough
guy Chuck Norris urged voters to “tell Congress we’re the bosses and
they’re not... read
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The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register... Get School Reform Right
February 8, 2012 - Twenty percent of the young Ohioans who enter the
state’s public education system don’t graduate from high school. The
average is much worse - 35 percent - in urban areas. Ohio Gov. John
Kasich is right to consider that a tragedy that is both unsustainable
and avoidable. He also is correct in avoiding knee-jerk reactions to
the problem. During his State of the State speech Tuesday in... read
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Redstate...
The
Frontrunner,
Posted by Erick Erickson
Friday, February 10th - The other night I was having dinner and Pat
Cadell, Jimmy Carter’s pollster and a very honest liberal, came up to
me. He said bluntly that if his side’s front runner had lost 3 of the
first 8 elections and been swept out last Tuesday, by Wednesday the
Democrats would have a new candidate in the race. He is right. Yet the
Republican Party has decided instead of finding a new guy to do what it
can to get Romney across the finish line no matter how bad the limp... read
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Townhall... The
Flaws of Mitt
and Newt, by Steve Chapman
Feb 06, 2012 - Newt Gingrich has an exquisitely sensitive moral
antenna, and Mitt Romney’s remark suggesting indifference to the poor
sent it quivering. “I am fed up with politicians in either party
dividing Americans against each other,” he said. Yes, he did. Then he
fell on the floor and laughed till he cried. For Gingrich to disavow
divisiveness is the equivalent of Mark Zuckerberg renouncing modern
technology: Without... read
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Townhall...
Who
Would Jesus
Tax?
by Doug Giles
Feb 05, 2012 - This past Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast,
Obama said that his Christian faith crafts his domestic
policies—particularly his desire to rob from the rich and give to the
poor. In my humble opinion, I think the president is getting Jesus and
His disciples confused with Robin Hood and his Merry Men. I don’t know
which White House wizard crafted that speech for him, but the verse he
or she gave to our Spender in Chief to back his socialism was more
twisted out of joint than... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Expect
$21.7
Trillion debt by 2022 if we don’t act!, by
Candice Lanier
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the national debt
will rise to $21,665 trillion by 2022. In a report released last week,
it was revealed that current policies, applied by the Obama
administration, will result in a 50% increase in debt held by the
public and a 40% increase in intra-governmental debt held in the trust
funds of entitlement programs. The CBO report explains that though the
economy will... read
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Townhall...
CBO
Study on
Federal
Pay, by Chris Edwards
CBO has released a study comparing the wages and benefits of private
sector and federal non-military workers. The study uses statistical
techniques to make comparisons with adjustments for education level,
experience, and other factors. Here are the overall results: The wages
of federal workers are 2 percent higher than similar private-sector
workers, on average. The benefits of federal workers are 48 percent
higher than similar private-sector workers, on average. The total
compensation... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Mortgaging
our Future, by Michael Becker
I’ve been around a long time and I’ve seen a bunch of, well, stupid
things. But folks, let me tell you, there’s something in the water in
Washington DC that causes a complete shutdown of one’s ability to
reason or be rational. We are facing a crisis. Yawn. And, never one to
let a crisis go to waste, the President is proposing to once again pile
more debt on the backs of our sons and their ladies. And, if they... read
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Townhall...
Planned
Parenthood’s
Grand Delusion, by Bill Murchison
Feb 07, 2012 - Go the website PlannedParenthood.org. You know, Planned
Parenthood, around whose rippling banner enlightened opinion rallied
last week when news broke that Susan G. Komen for the Cure would, in
the near future, cease granting it money. PP -- just a big-hearted
service organization for women, fighting breast cancer and other female
afflictions with might and main. One could buy into that sales pitch on
the basis of the Category 5 hurricane that PP caused to sweep across
the... read
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Townhall... A
Defining Moment,
by Thomas Sowell
Feb 07, 2012 - Governor Mitt Romney’s statement about not worrying
about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and
those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward
endorsing his coronation as the GOP’s nominee for president -- with 90
percent of the delegates still not yet chosen -- have been trying to
sweep his statement under the rug. But Romney’s statement about not... read
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Townhall...
The
Fight
to Reform Education, by Derek Hunter
Would any concerned parent willingly send their children to an average
public school in
this country if there was an option available? The word “concerned” in
the question should be a tipoff that the answer is no.
Still, states, localities and the federal government continue to dump
billionsof our
hard-earned tax dollars into a system that is rotten to its core. Don’t
think
things are that bad? A student in Washington state named Austin took a
video camera into his school’s cafeteria and asked students.... read
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Mail Magazine 24... The
Governmental Job Machine
Government is creating jobs after all… welfare offices on hiring spree,
by Candice
Lanier, LibertyNews
Public sector jobs, in the state of New York, increased due, according
to an
NBC affiliate in New York, to “economic woes” leading to the addition
of
more public employees in order to manage the increase in demand for
public
assistance. The NBC affiliate reports that the amount of people on food
stamps in New York... read
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Townhall
Finance... Mitt
Presumes to Tell Big Government to Make Wages Fairer,
by
John Ransom
Obama and Romney are getting really good at this. They just wave their
hand and the rest of us fall into line. Both of them recently unveiled
huge new proposed government mandates aimed at making government a
bigger player in the masterpiece economy that Big Government Inc. has
given us, in these, the waning days of the Boomer generation. Obama’s
working on solving the whole “real estate” crisis and Romney’s working
on solving the whole “fairness” crisis. Obama’s mandate was to banks...
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Townhall... Mauling
the Military,
by Ed Feulner
Feb 05, 2012 - “Freedom isn’t free.” We usually hear this on occasions
such as Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day. It’s meant to remind us of the
brave American troops who put their lives on the line daily to protect
our liberty and preserve our security. But that phrase also applies to
matters of money. It takes dollars and cents to field a world-class
military. Equipping and training the best soldiers, and providing them
with the... read
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Christian
Science Monitor... A
CEO as US president? America is not a business, Mitt Romney.
By Walter Rodgers / January 31, 2012 - A photo of Mitt Romney splashed
across the cover of a recent Economist under the title “America’s next
CEO” was a bit unsettling. Not because Mr. Romney isn’t qualified to be
president, but because America’s main need is for a public servant, not
a corporate executive. For the most part, Americans have favored
candidates with a career in public service – sometimes electing
soldiers but often voting for lawyers who went on to hold public
office... read
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Redstate...
Sixty-Five
to
One:
It’s Not That Complicated, Posted by Erick
Erickson
Wednesday, February 1st - Political analysts have a need to sound
expertly and important when it comes to elections. They have to go in
depth and explain artfully and deeply why someone won and someone lost.
It was the debates. It was the ground game. It was the strategies. It
was the likability versus dislikability of the candidates. On and on
they go. What gets danced around is the money. Money is usually why
candidates win or lose. Candidates with the highest favorable name ID
usually... read
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Daily Events... Thursdays
with
John Hayward: New Outlook a Horror Story
The Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic
Outlook this week. Last year’s was a tragedy, but the new one is a
horror story. The crushing burden of government debt and persistent
unemployment — which, contrary to the carefully massaged statistics
released for public consumption, has really been in double digits for
years, when the collapsing work force is taken into account — will
conspire with... read
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American
Thinker... Media
Blackout in Obama Georgia Ballot Eligibility Case,
By
Cindy Simpson
January 30, 2012 - Last week, I noted that Obama turned his back not
just on Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer, but also on the laws of the
State of Georgia. I closed my column, “Georgia Ballot Challenge: Obama
Walks on By,” with the observation: “And most of the media has followed
along right behind him.” At the time, I had just witnessed an historic
hearing that actually discussed the eligibility of the sitting
president of the United States to run for a second term. The president
had been... read
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Daily Events... Fridays
with
Erick Erickson: Unemployment has fallen? By
Erick Erickson
The household survey says unemployment has fallen. Jobs are being
created. A few days after American Airlines announced it would lay off
15,000 employees and other companies are laying off as well, the
unemployment rate fell with new hires. It is good news for Barack
Obama, except not really. The unemployment rate fell, but so did the
number of people participating in the workforce. If those people
were... read
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| Redstate...
NLRB
To Force
Companies To Turn Over Employee Telephone Numbers & E-Mail
Addresses To Unions?
Union-backed NLRB Chairman: “We keep our eye on the prize.” Posted by
LaborUnionReport - Thursday, January 26th - Undaunted by the
constitutionally-questionable appointment of three members to Barack
Obama’s National Labor Relations Board, union attorney and current NLRB
chairman Mark Pearce declared in an Associated Press interview that he
and his union comrades are continuing their assault on the 93% of
private-sector employees who are... read
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Townhall... Do
Government
Programs Ever ‘Fail’ by Austin Hill
Jan 29, 2012 - “Too big to fail.” Americans have come to loath the idea
that some business enterprises are so important and so “big,” that they
can’t be allowed to fail - especially as it regards large corporations
that “need” government bailouts. But have we developed a
similar
disdain for government programs that are treated as though they can’t
possibly be failures? After last week’s State of the Union Address... read
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Wall
Street Journal... No
Need
to Panic About Global Warming
There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to
‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy. WSJ Editor’s Note: The following has
been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article: A
candidate for public office in any contemporary democracy may have to
consider what, if anything, to do about “global warming.” Candidates
should understand that the oft-repeated claim that nearly all
scientists demand that something dramatic be done to stop global
warming is not true. In fact... read
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What
I like
about
Blogs, By Bob Robinson
Want to know what I like about blogs? Nothing. We have two “real blogs”
on local web sites where people can comment anonymously… in other
words, they can say whatever they want without taking responsibility
for their comments. I don’t read them. I always recommend to people who
are in the news don’t read them. Nine times out of ten, they are being
hammered unfairly; they get upset, hurt and end up feeling... read
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Townhall
Finance... Should
Everyone Be Required to Have Health Insurance?
by Michael
F. Cannon
When Washington begins penalizing people for not purchasing health
insurance in 2014, it will mark the first time in history the federal
government has required nearly all Americans to buy a private product
as a condition of lawful residence in the U.S. No part of the
health-care law is less popular, or more essential to preventing it
from crumbling like a house of cards, than this individual mandate.
Even if the mandate were popular and constitutional, it would still be
a bad idea. It will increase... read
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Mail Magazine 24... You
Owe
$52.5K to Uncle Sam, by Ken Marrero for
Liberty News
$52.5K Now Owed by Every American - Debt Ceiling Increase Votes a Sham
by Irresponsible Congress - I have 5 children and 1 grandchild. At the
moment, I will be leaving them a bill for almost $315,000. Actually, I
won’t be. Barack Obama and Congress will be. The Senate just voted to
increase the debt ceiling by another $1.2 TRILLION on the heels of last
August’s $2.1 TRILLION increase... read
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Investors.com...
Who’s
Vetting
Muslim Chaplains On College Campuses?
Homeland Security: To please Muslim-rights groups, more and more
colleges are hiring Muslim chaplains, only to watch them radicalize
students. Campuses need tougher background checks. Alarmingly, some
chaplains have actively supported al-Qaida and called for violent jihad
against “kaffirs,” or infidels. And yet they still have access to
students, and remain on the university payroll. Take Imam Abdullah
Faaruuq, Muslim chaplain at Northeastern University in Boston. He has
urged.... read
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