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Charlie Rangel's Peers Are His Accomplices
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2010 Comment (5)Much of Washington is engaged in another round of what it does best: huffing, puffing, and above all, strutting. "What penalty should the House of Representatives mete out to former Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY), now that the House Ethics Committee has found him guilty on 11 of the 13 counts filed against him?" many ask themselves. Options range from payment of a fine to reprimand to censure to expulsion.
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John Thune's Plan to Cut Spending Is a Good Start
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2010 Comment (5)The GOP is continuing to push back against the Obama-led spending spree from the last two years. It's difficult to do, given that Democrats still have the capacity to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government through the next few months—in lieu of the yearly appropriations bills—that would give them the authority to do much of what they want to do over the next two years even if the Republicans object.
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Democrats Are Drinking the Pelosi Kool-Aid
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Strong Federal Government Is Not the Root of All Evil
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2010 Comment (3)Over at the American Conservative, Paul Gottfried has a highly useful piece debunking the increasingly popular, Glenn Beck-driven narrative that posits Progressivism as the beginning of Big Government, if not indeed the monolithic source of all evil.
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California Illegal Immigrant Decision Shows Need for Dream Act
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2010 Comment (10)I get Google alerts daily. They alert me to things I’ve said or done or things people accuse me of saying. So today I see this Google alert that says: “Leslie Marshall said on Fox News today that she supports people coming to America illegally and using United States Of America Tax Dollars for educating ...” huh??? Wait a minute! I hear the needle being scratched on the record! I also would recommend hitting the replay button!
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Why the Republican Earmark Ban Matters
Tweet Share on Facebook November 16, 2010 Comment (3)Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell's surprising declaration Monday in support of an outright ban on earmarks is the first major post-election victory for the Tea Party movement.
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Earmark Ban Won't Get the Federal Deficit Under Control
Tweet Share on Facebook November 16, 2010 Comment (6)The Tea Party movement has scored an early success with the incoming 112th Congress, winning support from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and others to put a moratorium on earmarks, the reviled appropriations for projects targeted to a specific entity without competition for the funds. But the move could also mark the beginning of a painful and potentially politically damaging exercise for lawmakers determined to control federal spending.
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Will Sarah Palin's TARP Flip Flop Haunt Her in 2012?
Tweet Share on Facebook November 16, 2010 Comment (5)I just finished reading Too Big to Fail, the best-selling account by Andrew Ross Sorkin of the economic crisis of 2008.
Sorkin’s book confirmed what I thought I remembered from those turbulent days: that the Republican administration of George W. Bush, led by a Republican secretary of the treasury, Henry Paulson, and Ben Bernanke, a Republican chairman of the Federal Reserve, conspired (in a good way) to steer a group of greedy and foolish and mostly-Republican Wall Street bankers to something like a safe landing.
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John McCain's Angry 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Flip Flop
Tweet Share on Facebook November 16, 2010 Comment (18)What's happening here on shedding the shackles of "don't ask, don't tell" for our gay soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen?
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There's Not Enough Money in Political Campaigns
Tweet Share on Facebook November 16, 2010 Comment (2)Conservative columnist George Will famously observed that America spends more money each year on potato chips than it does on political campaigns.
