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Magazine
24... Unions
Spend $60
Million But Losing to Walker, by Eric Odom
Radical union operatives constantly spew the narrative that their
opponents are all about big, special interest money and they’re
standing up for the little guy. But behind closed doors union
operatives spend jaw-dropping amounts of campaign cash to silence their
political foes. Wisconsin is a perfect example, where more than $60
MILLION has now been spent in an attempt to defeat Scott Walker. Led by
the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME)... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Joe
Biden:
Blame Bush -- No, Wait! -- Blame the Tea Party
by Alex Knepper - Perhaps figuring that voters are tiring of the
administration blaming George W. Bush for their own failures, Vice
President Biden has stumbled onto a fun new scapegoat — the Tea Party:
Vice President Joe Biden admitted to a group of supporters in New
Hampshire this afternoon that the President would have been able help
the economy “much, more” if the Tea Party hadn’t taken the House.
“Imagine where... read
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Redstate…
Obama
Wants to
Redistribute Our Sovereignty with the Law of the Sea Treaty,
by Jake Walker
Monday, May 28th - One of the problems we find in politics these days
is the rash of bills with rather Orwellian titles. The best example in
recent years is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (you
know, Obamacare). But fortunately, some things have titles that are all
too appropriate. The Law of the Sea Treaty is one of them, which is
rather fittingly known as LOST. Michelle Malkin, writing for the
National Review, describes just what it is.... read
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CNS News...Our
Nation’s Future,
By Walter E. Williams
May 29, 2012 - Our nation is rapidly approaching a point from which
there’s little chance to avoid a financial collapse. The heart of our
problem can be seen as a tragedy of the commons. That’s a set of
circumstances when something is commonly owned and individuals acting
rationally in their own self-interest produce a set of results that’s
inimical to everyone’s long-term interest. Let’s look at an example of
the tragedy of the commons... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... 10
Facts
About the “Disappearing” Middle Class, by
Robert James
The “middle class” will earn a featured role in the upcoming election
season. You will hear rhetoric – almost certainly from both sides –
that the middle class is disappearing and “the other guy” is to blame
and/or will make it worse. They will present their own policies as the
solution to the middle class dilemma. But what do we really know about
the middle class? I realized that I had never actually seen or heard an
official definition of the middle class, and that got me thinking:
without a definition, any... read
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Townhall... Another
Obamacare
Debacle, by Bob Beauprez
The Affordable Care Act – aka: ObamaCare – contained an “incentive” for
Small Business Owners who did not provide health care insurance for
their employees to add the benefit. Like much of the rest of
the
legislation that the Democrats just had to pass so we could find out
what was in it, that provision appears to be yet another bust. With
their rose-colored glasses on the Obama Administration projected that
4... read
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Events... French
President
Hollande unlikely to be invited to address joint session of Congress,
by John Gizzi - 05/25/2012 - With all of the attention in the U.S.
given to the recent election of French President Francois Hollande and
his trip to the U.S. last week to attend the G-8 and NATO summits,
there has been some speculation in Washington about the next visit of
France’s first Socialist president in 17 years and if he will be
invited to address a joint session of Congress. The answer is that it
is highly unlikely and, in fact, almost out of the question. According
to the... read
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Old Sailors... Let
There Be No
Moaning at the Bar
Old sailors sit And chew the fat About things that used to be, Of the
things they’ve seen’ The places they’ve been, When they ventured out to
sea. They remembered friends From long ago, The times they had back
then, The money they spent, The beer they drank, In their days as
sailing men. Their lives are lived In the days gone by With the
thoughts that forever last. Of the bell bottom blues... read
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Townhall
Finance... Governments
are Never Cheap, by Jeff Carter
Two editorials today are interesting when you cross pollinate them. One
is David Malpass piece on the Greek government. Governments want
austerity for everyone but themselves. The Greek government has been
practicing a particularly aggressive form of antigrowth austerity.
While the private sector shrank in 2011, Greece’s government grew to
49.7% of GDP from 49.6% in 2010. To accomplish this bad outcome,
Greece’s government increased its value-added tax to 23%—a hidden... read
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Redstate…
The
Growth
Deficit and
Spending Fairy Tales, Posted by Dan McLaughlin
It’s Our Income That Matters, Not The Government’s - Thursday, May 24th
- The United States faces a number of economic and fiscal challenges in
the short and long terms. But the single biggest is the Growth Deficit:
the problem of government spending and government debt growing faster
than the private sector. That deficit needs to be reversed; we are on
an unsustainable path unless we start producing a Growth Surplus. And
Republicans and conservatives need to put more effort... read
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Borowitz Report... U.S.
Sends
Emergency Shipment of Negative Ads to Egypt
Aid to Fledgling Democracy - CAIRO (The Borowitz Report) – In what it
is calling a mission to support a fledgling democracy in the Middle
East, the United States this week sent an emergency shipment of
negative ads to Cairo. Explaining the secret mission, a State
Department official said that with its first democratic elections
getting underway, “Egypt had no access to the mother’s... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Keystone
XL
Pipeline Delay Costs the United States $70,000,000 Daily,
by IER
The XL Pipeline will be essential to securing the future of oil
security in the United States. According to the US State Department,
the pipeline will deliver 700,000 barrels of oil daily to consumers.
This will generate enormous revenue in local communities and create
20,000 American jobs. With the current price of WTI crude hovering at
the $100 mark, the pipeline will deliver $70,000,000 worth of oil every
single day, helping the United States grow and prosper. However, the
Obama administration... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Top
10
reasons President Obama won’t be reelected
If you have any doubts that Obama will be sent packing from the White
House in November, then cast your eyes at this list of reasons Barack
Obama will be a one-term president. 1. Jobs, jobs, jobs - While the
official unemployment rate has inched down to close to 8 percent, that
number would be much higher if all the discouraged job hunters who
stopped looking for work were included. Obama’s record... read
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Redstate...
Like
His
Policies,
His Attacks Are Not Working Either, by Erick
Erickson
Wednesday, May 23 - Barack Obama’s economic policies have failed to do
anything except drive up the national debt. He has not created or saved
jobs. He has not gotten Americans back to work. About the only
significant industry he has expanded is the printing industry printing
all the extra food stamps Americans now depend on. His campaign attacks
do not seem to be working either. He is winning women, but not by the
overwhelming margins he needs to get elected. He is now losing... read
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Verities & Balderdash... Only
in America, Edited by Bob Robinson
This came from an unknown source, please be advised that the
information presented here has not been verified. Regardless, from my
humble perspective, there’s a grain of truth in each point. Read it and
weep... Only in America---Top Ten 1) Only in America could
politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate
campaign fund raising event. 2) Only in America could people
claim that the... read
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Business
& Media Institute... Networks
Target Romney’s Wealth 13 Times More Than Richer Sen. Kerry
The nomination is several weeks away, but the party has its
“inevitable” candidate. With hundreds of millions of dollars at his
disposal, opponents raise concerns about whether that vast wealth had
completely disconnected him from the reality that most Americans face
every day. The year was 2004 and the candidate Sen. John Kerry. But the
major networks gave Kerry’s great wealth nowhere near the attention
that they have given to Gov. Mitt Romney’s millions in 2012.... read
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Investors.com... The
Shameless
Lies Of Politics Are The Path To Election, By
Thomas Sowell
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars
is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When
the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them, and only
in the short run. The current outbreaks of riots in Europe show what
happens when the truth catches up with both the politicians and the
people in the long run. Among the biggest lies of the welfare states on
both sides... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Is
Austerity
Crushing Europe? by J.D. Foster, Ph.D.
Numerous governments across Europe have embarked on strict austerity
programs. Europe is also sliding into a deep recession, with some
countries already essentially in deep depression. Are the two phenomena
related? Is the austerity exacerbating the economic downturn? Yes and
no, and the yes should be no surprise. For context, recall that the
Obama Administration was greeted by a global financial contagion and
the Great Global Recession. The budget deficit was already rising
rapidly... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Obama-Loving
Media Spin the Economy, by Larry Elder
National Public Radio’s Kai Ryssdal recently talked about the weak
economy. His guests, two reporters from The Washington Post and The New
York Times, acknowledged the obvious — that the economy is
underperforming. Yet, in the 20 minutes of my sitting and listening in
the car in bad Los Angeles traffic, I heard no one mention the words
“President Barack Obama.” Time magazine, in a cover story on... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... A
Glimmer of
Hope for the American Dream, by Mike Brownfield
On Wednesday in the Senate, America bore witness to the glaringly
obvious division in Washington, as stark as the contrast between high
noon in the desert and midnight in the mountains. On the one hand is
Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) failure to pass a budget over the
past three years. And on the other hand is leadership from conservative
senators and representatives who have put forward serious proposals to
rescue America from its debt and spending crises. That division was... read
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Real Clear Policy... The
Ultimate Women’s Issue, By Nan Hayworth
Today President Obama addresses the graduating class of Barnard, the
distinguished women’s college, at their commencement. I wonder if he
will be honest about the dire economic future they face. In this
election year, the president’s supporters have tried to use the
concerns of women as political wedge issues. This divisive and
inflammatory approach not only ill-serves... read
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Townhall...
Should
We Obey
All
Laws? by Walter E. Williams
May 16, 2012 - Let’s think about whether all acts of Congress deserve
our respect and obedience. Suppose Congress enacted a law -- and the
Supreme Court ruled it constitutional -- requiring American families to
attend church services at least three times a month. Should we obey
such a law? Suppose Congress, acting under the Constitution’s commerce
clause, enacted a law requiring motorists to get eight hours of sleep
before driving on interstate highways. Its justification might be
that... read
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Maxine... Hello
-- I have some
questions!
Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety-one? If 4 out of 5 people
SUFFER from diarrhea... does that mean that one out of five enjoys it?
Why do croutons come in airtight packages? Aren’t they just stale bread
to begin with? If people from Poland are called Poles, then why aren’t
people from Holland called Holes? If a pig loses its voice, is it
disgruntled? Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist... read
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Redstate...
Washington
Post
Promoting Misleading Filibuster Arguments,
Posted by Brian
Darling
Tuesday, May 15th - Today Ezra Klein at the Washington Post put out a
piece promoting Common Cause’s lawsuit to have the Senate filibuster
declared unconstitutional. Klein repeats myth after myth
about
the filibuster. This piece should commence an interesting
national debate finally putting the argument to bed that the filibuster
is somehow unconstitutional. Abolition of the filibuster will
lead to a Senate with less time for debate and limited transparency for
the American people... read
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Human Events... Making
life fair,
by John Stossel
05/16/2012 - When my wife was a liberal, she complained that
libertarian reasoning is coldhearted. Since markets produce winners and
losers -- and many losers did nothing wrong -- market competition is
cruel. It must seem so. President Obama used the word “fair” in his
last State of the Union address nine times. We are imprinted to prefer
a world that is “fair.” Our close relatives the chimpanzees freak
out... read
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Columbus
Dispatch... Public
support
Poll shows Ohioans favor governor’s plan to tax shale drillers - Sunday
May 13, 2012 6:47 AM - Lawmakers shouldn’t make important policy
decisions solely on the basis of polling results. But a new poll,
showing broad popular support for Gov. John Kasich’s proposal to raise
taxes on hydraulic fracturing — aka fracking — for oil and natural gas
and give Ohioans a tax break in the process, is another reason why the
Ohio legislature should move forward with the plan. Ohio voters in a
Quinnipiac... read
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Townhall... What
the Washington
Post Missed, by Ken Blackwell
May 15, 2012 - Last week, the Washington Post produced a front-page
story intended to shock readers with the news of Mitt Romney’s leading
fellow preppies in cutting the bleach-blond hair of a student at their
school. The incident in question took place in 1965, some 47 years ago.
The news that Mitt Romney did dumb things in high school was played as
if it was most revealing. But, unconnected to anything else, it
leaves... read
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Townhall
Finance... California
Is the Canary in the Class-Warfare Coal Mine,
by Daniel J.
Mitchell
President Obama’s fiscal policy is a dismal mixture. On spending, he
wants a European-style welfare state. On taxes, he is fixated on
class-warfare tax policy. If we want to know the consequences of that
approach, we can look at the ongoing collapse of Greece. Or, if we
don’t like overseas examples, we can look at California. If the
(formerly) Golden State is any example, it turns out that having high
tax rates doesn’t necessarily translate into high tax revenues. Here’s
a blurb from an editorial... read
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Human Events... As
the boomers
head for the barn, by Patrick J. Buchanan
05/15/2012 - When the April figures on unemployment were released May
4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing.
While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent,
342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out
of the labor market. Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age
population is now in the labor force, the lowest... read
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Townhall
Finance...Time
Magazine
vs Mothers on Mother’s Day, by Gina Loudon
TIME Magazine, in synchronized coordination with the rest of the
pathetic media, found some random mother and child to exploit to mock a
reverent holiday. The article is presumably about the conflicts
associated with “attachment parenting”—a parenting theory popular in
the 1970’s that has made a small comeback among mothers today. The
cover touts a mother posed with her 3-year-old boy (whom they made look
much older in the photo) with his mouth fixed on her breast for all to
see. Willing to.... read
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Human Events...Three
different
ways to look at the 2012 campaign, by Michael
Barone
Last week, I wrote about the standings in the presidential race and
said it looked like a long, hard slog through about a dozen clearly
identified target states, much like the contests in 2000 and 2004. Call
it the 2000/2004 long, hard slog scenario. But I said there were other
possible scenarios. I can think of three. The 1964/1972 scenario:
Challenger disqualifies himself. Barry Goldwater and George McGovern
were idealistic, intelligent.... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Another
Green Energy Boondoggle, by Lachlan Markay
When I grew up I always heard “you have to see it to believe it.”
Today, thanks to modern technology, you can’t even believe what you see
some of the time. Many media outlets have been accused of doctoring
photos to present a desired image rather than a true one. I teach
Photoshop at Edison Community College on occasion… it’s not that hard.
Many of my students – after a 16-week course – can do the same thing.
It’s a.... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... It’s
Stupid
Friday, by Michael Becker
Sigh. I’m more than pretty sure that the folks who write for, and edit,
Bloomberg are working for President Obama’s reelection campaign. Here’s
Thursday’s headline: Jobless Claims Allay Concern on U.S. Job Market:
Economy Good news upon good news, here’s the first three and a half
paragraphs: Claims for unemployment benefits declined last week to the
lowest level in a month, easing concern that the U.S. labor market is
faltering. First-time claims dropped by 1,000 to 367,000 in... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Another
Green Energy Boondoggle, by Lachlan Markay
Say you invested $11,500 in a company. Shortly thereafter, the federal
government opened an investigation into that company for alleged
financial crimes. Would you invest another $2,500? Thanks to President
Obama’s green energy handouts, you already did – only the amounts
“invested” are about 10,000 times larger, and there’s no prospect for
returns. Ecotality, a company that manufactures charging... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Has
Anyone
Seen Republican Leadership? By Mychal Massie
Obama is what he is, and, considering the stock that he was spawned
from, it was a fait accompli that he would grow up to be the morally
bankrupt narcissist he is. In circles not accessible to the public at
large, we are aware of the threats and intimidation tactics he employed
in his 2008 presidential campaign. And we continue to see him resort to
the same tactics whenever he feels threatened. Quoting Albert Einstein:
“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are... read
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Mail Magazine 24... The
lion in
the room… ENTITLEMENTS, by Michael Becker
…and it’s going to eat us. Let’s take a look at the essay in Forbes
that outlines ten reasons why we should be scared. The lion in the
room: ENTITLEMENTS. There are three problems with entitlements – and
those would be federal government programs like social security,
Medicare & Medicaid and ObamaCare. The first problem is one of
language: entitlements. The left has co-opted the language and... read
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Investors.com...
Leftism
Comes
First As Black Studies Critic Is Fired
Free Speech: A news source for college professors fires a noted writer
for racism after she exposes “left-wing victimization claptrap”
masquerading as scholarship. So much for free academic inquiry. What
was the offense that garnered 6,500 names on a Web petition calling for
Naomi Schaefer Riley to be silenced in a favorite news site of
America’s comfy, tenured, leftist-dominated academic elites? The former
Wall Street Journal editor specializing in higher education, religion
and culture... read
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Grumpy Old Seniors... Senior
gives granddaughter sound advice, Author
unknown
Editor: Some of our oldsters aren’t thrilled with becoming “working
retirees” (like I am). This has been floating around the Internet for a
couple of years... I thought you might like a Baby Boomer’s take on
today’s economy. Read it and weep… John G. is 63 years old and owns a
small business. He’s a life-long Republican and sees his dream of
retiring next year has all but evaporated. With the stock market
crashing... read
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Townhall Finance... Investor-Class
Dead Heat, by Larry Kudlow
While President Obama is out on the campaign trail talking about how
bad things were four years ago, and how we have to go “forward” to his
second term to see just how great things are going to be in the next
four years, the biggest problem he’s got is the here and now. Real GDP
in the second quarter stalled at 2.2 percent. There were a paltry
115,000 new jobs in April. The labor force shrank by 342,000 for the
month... read
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Investors.com…
Obama
Stalls
U.S.
Energy Independence, Enemies Smile
Energy Security: Do America’s enemies wish us well? It’s an important
question because they’ve made a big push to halt U.S. energy
production. So why does the Obama administration’s policies support
their aims? Energy is the lifeblood of the mighty U.S. economy, and it
ought to surprise no one that America’s enemies know this. One way to
neutralize the U.S. is to hurt its ability to produce its own energy...
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Mail Magazine 24... The
Economic
Paradox No One Wants to Talk About, by Arnold
Ahlert
There is an economic paradox that few people understand, much less wish
to acknowledge, because to do so would reveal the level of societal
deterioration that has caused it. In simple terms, there are two
schools of economic thought: one posits that massive amounts of
government spending, aka stimulus in all its odious forms, is the only
way to save an economy. The other posits that until massive over... read
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Townhall
Finance... Zero
Interest Rates Mean Zero Interest In Middle Class,
by Bill
Tatro
The financial markets have been a playground for a small select few.
Not because they’re smarter, more experienced, or even better at what
they do but because a group of bankers and politicians decided their
own interests should come first. Due to ZIRP (zero interest rate
policy), seniors, retirees, and pretty much any recipient of fixed
income were forced to take risks never before contemplated. However, if
they wanted to make a mortgage payment or a nursing home payment,
keep... read
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Investors.com... The
Crumbling
Of Our Moral Infrastructure Can Be Deadly, By
Thomas Sowell
The “Occupy” movement, which the Obama administration and much of the
media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing
sensation it has created. The unwillingness of authorities to put a
stop to their organized disruptions of other people’s lives, their
trespassing, vandalism and violence is a de facto suspension, if not
repeal, of the 14th Amendment’s requirement that the... read
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A
Terrible, No
Good, Awful Night for Barack Obama, Posted by
Erick
Erickson
Wednesday, May 9th - One initial point to ponder: if the No-H8 campaign
tries to fire up in North Carolina as the No-A1 campaign, people will
wonder why they are campaigning against steak sauce. Probably won’t
happen. North Carolina did not pass a ban on gay marriage as the media
reports. Rather they refused to allow their definition of marriage to
be changed. The marriage definition was put into law years ago, but
with an onslaught of judicial activists, the voters in North Carolina
decided to shut... read
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Mail Magazine 24... The
Human
Consequences of EPA’s War on Coal, by Lachlan
Markay
There are very real consequences to the Environmental Protection
Agency’s continued efforts to undermine America’s coal industry. Those
consequences were recently spotlighted in an industry-produced video
(watch the video below). Maria Tworek owns a sports bar in Omaha,
Nebraska. “Our energy bills are sky-high,” Tworek explains. The bar has
to keep its cooling facilities running 24/7 to... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Entitlement
Spending Will Nearly Double by 2050, by Alison
Meyer
May 6, 2012 - Spending on Medicare, Medicaid, Social
Security,
and the Obamacare subsidies will
soar as 78 million baby boomers retire and health care costs climb.
Total spending on federal health care programs will more than double.
Future generations will be left with an untenable debt burden.
President Obama has called Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget “an attempt to
impose a
radical vision on our country,” but as this week’s chart illustrates,
if something radical
doesn’t happen, entitlement spending will.... read
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Redstate...
Jill
Biden:
Government Oversight for Thee, Free Markets for Me,
Posted
by Ben Howe
Thursday, May 3rd - Barack Obama didn’t believe in government
healthcare mandates…until he did. He didn’t think we should spike the
football on Bin Laden…until it was time for reelection. Joe Biden
thought Obama was ill-equipped for the job of President…until he took
the job as his right hand man. Yes, the ability for this administration
to say one thing and do another is nothing short of astounding.
Apparently this sphere protecting the executive branch from any lasting
accusation of hypocrisy... read
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Townhall Finance... Why
Businesses Aren’t Investing in the U.S., by
Larry Kudlow
Businesses aren’t investing in the United States because of a lack of
consumer demand, International Paper CEO John Faraci said Friday. “I
think this was all about consumer spending and demand. You know, the
problem we have is there’s inadequate demand to create jobs. We know
how to respond when there is demand,” he said on CNBC’s “The Kudlow
Report.” The U.S. Commerce Department estimated that... read
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| Townhall
Finance... 2.2
Million
Go On Disability Since Mid-2010; Fraud Explains Falling Unemployment
Rate,
by Mike Shedlock - Since mid-2010, precisely at the time millions of US
citizens used up all of their 99 week of unemployment insurance,
disability claims have risen by 2.2 million. Those on disability are
not counted in the workforce and are not considered unemployed. The
number of workers receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
jumped 22 percent to 8.7 million in April from 7.1 million in December
2007, Social Security data show. That helps explain as much... read
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Eric
Holder’s
contempt of Congress citation takes shape, by
John Hayward
It’s go time - 05/03/2012 - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the
House Oversight Committee, is preparing contempt of Congress charges
against Attorney General Eric Holder for his failure to cooperate fully
with the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama
Administration’s deadly gun-running program. Warnings were
issued, deadlines have passed, and it’s just about “go time.” To this
end... read
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Townhall
Finance... Bang
the
Socialism Drum Loudly, by Charles Payne
This is the way the world ends - Not with a bang but with a whimper -
T.S. Eliot, 1925 - I’m not sure how the world will end, but more and
more, it looks like the America I was born in could indeed end in a
self-induced whimper. The last breath of greatness was forced out of
our lifeless body after heading down a path that was always ridiculous
but for some reason gathered the adulation of people too young to know
better and too old to care anymore... read
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Christian
Science Monitor... Blame
China, not Obama or US, for the plight of activist Chen Guangcheng
By Nicholas Burns - May 3, 2012 - Beijing, not US mishandling, is
responsible for activist Chen’s predicament. The US often needs to
balance its concern for human rights in favor of Beijing’s cooperation
on pressing global issues. This is not one of those times. Obama must
stand up to China to defend Chen’s rights. The dramatic events in
Beijing surrounding the brave Chinese activist, Chen Guangcheng, are
confounding and hard to fathom at such a great distance and without all
the facts... read
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Human Events... Frozen
cows to
be removed by hand-saw, fire and explosives don’t meet green rules,
by Audrey Hudson - 05/02/2012 - CNO: For those of you who read the
original column, here’s the “resolution”... Hand-saws will be used to
cut up six frozen cows discovered in an abandoned Colorado mountain
cabin as opposed to fire or explosives the Forest Service was
considering to remove the carcasses before the spring thaw. Federal
officials are being forced to adhere to strict environmental
regulations... read
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Akron
Beacon Journal... Wild
and
still dangerous
May 1, 2012 - The state having exhausted what little power it has to
police exotic animals, the Ohio Department of Agriculture is expected
to soon release the five surviving creatures from a tragic incident
last fall near Zanesville. Owner Terry Thompson released 56 animals,
then committed suicide. His wife will gain control of two leopards, two
primates and a bear. The other animals were shot quickly by law
enforcement officers. The surviving animals have been quarantined at
the... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Obama
Campaign Attacks Citizens By Name, by Jessica
Cybulski
The Obama campaign has hit a new, all time low. Following in the steps
of Richard Nixon, Obama has begun attacking citizens by name that chose
to donate to his opponent, Mitt Romney. From the Wall Street Journal:
This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled
“Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post,
the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private... read
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Akron
Beacon Journal... After
bin Laden
Would Mitt Romney have ordered the commando raid that resulted in the
killing of Osama bin Laden? The Obama White House has suggested that
the former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential candidate
would not have given his assent. The speculation has been part of the
campaign jockeying as today approached, one year since special forces
descended on Abbottabad, Pakistan, and left with the body of the
deceased al-Qaida mastermind aboard one of their helicopters... read
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Mail Magazine 24... Inflation:
Hell to Pay, by Michael Sall
I have a problem with the methodology used by our government to measure
inflation. Let me explain. In business we segregate operating expenses
(those costs that recur on a regular basis), and capital expenses
(costs that are non-recurring and are better understood as a longer
term “investment”), such as equipment purchases, real estate purchases
and so forth. In our personal lives, rent... read
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Redstate...
Death
of the
Moderate . . . Democrat, Posted by Erick
Erickson
Friday, April 27th - It is worth noting that on Tuesday several
moderate Democrats went down in flames in Pennsylvania, continuing a
trend that has escalated since 2008. Liberals do not want moderate
Democrats in their caucus. What is most interesting about it from a
conservative perspective, however, is how there has not been a ton of
coverage about the death of the blue dogs — more dogs dead in Barack
Obama and the left’s war on dogs. Had moderate Republicans been
defeated, we would have.... read
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Human Events... Removal
of cows
is an explosive situation, by Audrey Hudson
04/30/2012 - The Forest Service is trying to figure out how to get rid
of a half-dozen frozen cows crowded inside a small cabin in the
Colorado high country before the carcasses thaw and become bear bait in
the popular hiking area near Aspen. The cattle apparently sought refuge
in the structure during a sudden snowstorm and subsequently froze to
death, forest officials say. The gruesome scene was discovered by a
couple of snowshoeing Air Force... read
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Cincinnati
Enquirer... Editorial:
Untangle the job-training mess
Apr. 26, 2012 - According to Rich Frederick, Office of Workforce
Transformation director, Ohio’s job-training system encompasses 77
state programs, 56 career technical schools, more than 100 Adult Basic
Literacy and Education programs, 23 community colleges, 13 public
four-year universities and more than 1,000 private work-force
development initiatives. That translates into 1,300 possible points of
entry into the system and 12,000 different “processes” to get job
training. His initiative would... read
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Human Events... Shrinking
problem: Illegal immigration from Mexico, by
Michael Barone
04/26/2012 - The illegal immigration problem is going away. That’s the
conclusion I draw from the latest report of the Pew Hispanic Center on
Mexican immigration to the United States. Pew’s demographers have
carefully combed through statistics compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau,
the Department of Homeland Security and the Mexican government, and
have come up with estimates of the flow of migrants from and... read
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