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Catnip from the progressive egotists

By: Emmett Tyrrell 01/05/12 9:05 PM
An underlying theme of our times that has gone unperceived by the high and mighty in media, government and other locales where the politically alive come to roost is the thumping failure of an increasing number of counter-productive, old progressive reforms. Read More

The choice in 2012 in pictures

By: Conn Carroll 08/03/11 7:43 AM
The Washington Post reported yesterday: “In 2012, the contrast between the two parties seems certain to be drawn in sharp relief. The Republican vision is of a dramatically smaller government and of a budget that is balanced without raising taxes. Read More

How many of President Obama's Twitter followers are fake?

By: Charlie Spiering 08/03/11 4:29 AM
It's complicated, but after an ex-staffer suggested to Gawker that many of Newt Gingrich's Twitter followers were fake, PeekYou, a New York search company has run their complicated algorithm to determine that only 8% of Newt Gingrich 1.3 million followers are "verifiable humans." Read More

Top 10 horrible consequences if they hadn't reached a debt-ceiling deal

By: Mark Tapscott 08/02/11 3:34 PM
With everybody in Washington breathing deep signs of relief that earlier today the Senate passed the debt-ceiling deal approved yesterday by the House, and President Obama quickly signed the measure into law, it behooves us all to contemplate what would have been had this happpy day not come around. Read More

“Conservatives have just flat out won this debate”

By: Conn Carroll 08/02/11 6:59 AM
This astonishing admission from Mother Jones’ Kevin Drum has not gotten nearly enough attention. Defending Obama’s negotiation performance in the debt limit debate Drum writes: Read More

On policy, Obama wins big by doing nothing

By: Conn Carroll 08/01/11 6:30 AM
My colleague Tim Carney tweets out this morning: "Ross Douthat's column http://nyti.ms/ofYXAD supports my view: Obama's more about getting the right poltical frame than the right policies." Indeed, Tim's column this morning argues: "Democrats put politics ahead of poli Read More

Does the deal raise taxes or not?

By: Mark Tapscott 08/01/11 4:32 AM
It's still too early to reach definitive conclusions about the debt-ceiling compromise yet because nobody has seen the actual legislative text that will be voted on by the Senate and House today. But it seems clear that tax reform is about to become a key issue on the national public policy agenda and it is not at all clear what the compromise does on that front. Read More

Obama dismisses Boehner bill, says "almost out of time" to raise debt ceiling

By: Brian Hughes 07/29/11 8:04 AM
President Obama urged lawmakers Friday to compromise on a solution to raise the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline, seeking to ratchet up pressure on Republicans reeling from their failure to unite behind a debt deal. “There are plenty of ways out of this mess, but we are almost out of time,” Obama said at the White House in a brief statement to the press. Read More

Are CAFE regs the ultimate expression of bureaucratic elitist thinking?

By: Mark Tapscott 07/29/11 3:48 AM
President Obama will announce dramatically higher Corporate Average Fuel Economic (CAFE) standards for cars and trucks today. The new fleet average requirement is expected to be 54.5 mpg, which will require massive downsizing of automakers' products and huge price increases, all for barely measurable gains in clean air. Read More

From Russia with love?

By: James Jay Carafano 07/28/11 2:49 PM
How’s that U.S.-Russia “reset” working out? “U.S. intelligence agencies concluded in a classified report late last year that Russia’s military intelligence was responsible for a bomb blast that occurred at an exterior wall of the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, in September,” the Associated Press reported yesterday. Read More
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