The budget is out of control. Government regulations continue to increase. More Americans are receiving food and financial aid from the State. High school graduates expect the government to loan them money for college. Politicians are promising free healthcare or at least making someone else pay for it. Government-backed mortgages are common and expected. Government [...]
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Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can’t, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. Take Austan Goolsbee, please. President Obama’s “fresh-faced” [...]
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The real winner of Monday night’s Republican presidential debate wasn’t any of the seven candidates on the stage, it was the TEA Party, analysts agree. While Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann garnered most of the plaudits for the New Hampshire debate it was the growing influence of the party-within-a-Party that set the tone and the [...]
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Telecom executive Donald H. Gips raised a big bundle of cash to help finance his friend Barack Obama’s run for the presidency. Gips, a vice president of Colorado-based Level 3 Communications, delivered more than $500,000 in contributions for the Obama war chest, while two other company executives collected at least $150,000 more. After the election, [...]
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On December 18, 1956, Clayton Heermance, a.k.a. Bud Collyer, who was the radio voice of Superman long ago, landed what would become his most successful game-show hosting job ever–Goodson-Todman’s To Tell The Truth. The show had three contestants who claimed to be the same person and a panel of four celebrity questioners who tried to determine [...]
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If I’d heard the following words, instead of reading them, I might have assumed they were being delivered by a President Obama impressionist on “Saturday Night Live.” But the words were from Obama himself in his latest weekly radio address. “I wish I could tell you there was a quick fix to our economic problems,” [...]
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Former Massachusetts’ governor Mitt Romney announced his official intention to run for the presidency. His candidacy has one potentially insurmountable problem: America has same-sex marriage because of Mitt Romney. This is just one of several huge vulnerabilities Mitt Romney has as he tries to convince the members of his own party that he is conservative [...]
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An open letter to Michele Bachmann. You are now a candidate for the President of the United States of America. You took the time announce your candidacy just last night. But what does this announcement mean for America? The announcement is the easy part and now it’s done. The road to getting elected begins. Now [...]
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Perhaps one of the most persistent and pervasive myths that have shaped the thinking of many people and, subsequently, public policy is the myth that the world’s population is spiraling out of control and that it will ultimately lead to catastrophic shortages of the essential resources necessary to sustain life. This whole concept of “overpopulation” [...]
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President Obama is holding $4 billion in Medicaid funding hostage in an effort to force Indiana taxpayers to underwrite the biggest threat to unborn life: abortion. On June 1, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) disapproved Indiana’s Medicaid State Plan over a new state law restricting taxpayer subsidies for abortion mills. On Thursday, 28 Senate Republicans fired off [...]
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The can cannot be kicked down the road again. The deadline cannot be delayed. It’s now or … well, no one wants to contemplate what happens if there’s no sign of a debt-reduction deal by July 4. The dollar or capital markets, or both, could explode. As Vice President Joe Biden’s group of negotiators returns [...]
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President Barack Obama embarks this week on a pilgrimage familiar to generations of New York politicians, making a rare presidential trip to Puerto Rico that accentuates his campaign’s emerging focus on Hispanics as central to his reelection bid. Obama’s attention to this subset of the country’s burgeoning Latino population is part of a broader strategy to boost [...]
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Disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner’s desperate attempts to save his congressional career in the wake of his sexting scandal all could be in vain, as his seat is now being targeted for extinction under redistricting. Observers see it as an easy way out for Democrats if Weiner continues to embarrass his party by refusing to step [...]
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In a Washington Times editorial titled “Obama’s Third World America,” this statement caught my eye: “On a campaign fundraising trip to Chicago, Mr. Obama quipped that under the proposed Republican budget plan, ‘we would be a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought — that we used to call [...]
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Representative Anthony D. Weiner planned to check himself into a treatment center on Saturday after House Democratic leaders, including Nancy Pelosi, called on him to resign and suggested he needed psychiatric counseling. A spokeswoman for Mr. Weiner said he would request a leave of absence from the House and seek treatment, but provided no further details. “Congressman [...]
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