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(John Hinderaker) I have never thought so. On the contrary, the Republican politicians I know well are far smarter and much more hard-working than the public gives them credit for. Still, there are times when you wonder: are Republican politicians–not voters, but politicians–
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(Paul Mirengoff) I agree with John’s analysis of Rand Pauls’ filibuster of John Brennan’s nomination. Paul purports to be filibustering in response to Eric Holder’s statements about the circumstances under which the U.S. might launch a drone attack against citizens here at home, and the constitutionality
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(Steven Hayward) Everyone supposes that supply-side economics was a purely American phenomenon, with its antecedents going back to Calvin Coolidge and his tax-cutting Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon and ending up with the Laffer Curve. And of course Ronald Reagan liked
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In the wake of last week’s horrific mass murders at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the debate over the proper scope of gun rights and gun control has focused largely on the evil deeds some individuals have done with the help of firearms. That focus is understandable
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This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at 02:00 PM EST, shows a frontal system moving into the Pacific Northwest and northern California bringing rain and heavy mountain snow. Snow will continue to fall over the Great Basin as the system moves eastward. A
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(Steven Hayward) If so, the Claremont Review of Books has got the answer for you! Just out today is the CRB’s “Claremont Christmas Reading” roundup of book suggestions from an all-star lineup including Harvey Mansfield, Larry Arnn, Hadley Arkes, Christopher Caldwell, Matthew
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(John Hinderaker) There is a certain irony in the fact that many liberals, purporting to be devastated by the Sandy Hook murders, are responding by calling for the murder of the National Rifle Association’s 4.3 million members. Well, to be fair,
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(Steven Hayward) While analysts will argue for a long time what effect Hurricane Sandy had on the outcome of the election (some people think it tipped the close race to Obama), a question not getting enough attention is whether Sandy was a hurricane
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The problem of mass violence in the U.S. is more a reflection of contempt for the sanctity of human life than of a love for gun ownership.In a society that reveres human life, gun ownership isn’t a chronic problem. People who genuinely believe in the sanctity of human
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I can feel that changes coming on! Obama made it very clear: “In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds…” Get ready, America! The fight for our freedom is truly about to begin! What we
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(John Hinderaker) Via InstaPundit, we learn that for the first time, the United States does not rank as one of the world’s ten most prosperous nations, as rated by London’s Legatum Institute. The authors of the report found that the U.S.’s slippage
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(Paul Mirengoff) Buried deep in the latest Washington Post report about fiscal cliff talks (or the lack thereof) is this item which helps explain, albeit misleadingly, the “impasse.” Two senior White House officials said that David Plouffe, Obama’s top political
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(Paul Mirengoff) Hillary Clinton will not testify before Congress about Benghazi this coming Thursday, as scheduled, because she is recovering from a concussion suffered due to a fall. Apparently, after suffereing from a stomach flu, she became de-hydrated, and this caused the fall. The heads
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(Scott Johnson) An editorial paragraph in the November 12 National Review caught my attention. It concisely relates a story that dates to early October: Last month Megan Ryan was elected homecoming queen by her classmates at Bishop Hartley High School in Columbus, Ohio. Ryan has Down Syndrome, a condition associated
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(Paul Mirengoff) I wasn’t going to comment about the remarks of the racist ESPN talking head who suggested that football star Robert Griffin III might be a “cornball brother” (i.e., an inauthentic black) because Griffin’s fiance is white
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — The president of Kazakhstan said Friday he plans to introduce direct elections for town and village mayors in an effort to foster democratic standards in the authoritarian Central Asian nation.In a wide-ranging address, President Nursultan Nazarbayev
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(Scott Johnson) A reader writes in response to John’s post “Don’t criticize the Taliban!” What is to be said about that mind-boggling Army manual that John discusses in the post? The reader comments: I am an active duty Army
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Senate Republicans, with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R., Ky.) blessing and led publicly by Senators Roy Blunt (R., Mo.) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), have launched a new-media initiative called “Stop the Nuclear Option,” complete with website, Facebook-share
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(Steven Hayward) So I had great fun as usual guest-hosting Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning, and especially when John called in during the second hour. When I saw his name was up on the caller board during a commercial break, I
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“We’ve been disappointed that [President] Obama has been a tepid regulator.”– Randy Rabinowitz, director of regulatory policy at liberal group OMB Watch, talking to the Associated Press about a slew of new regulations from the Obama administration.Republicans are finding some rays of sunshine this
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, damages after an explosion hit the main gate of the Syrian Interior Ministry in Damascus, Syria. Three bombs collapsed walls in the Syrian Interior Ministry building Wednesday in Damascus, killing several, as rebels fighting to
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Any of us who have come to Christ later in life know the factors that led us to Him. The Spirit was tugging at me for a while. C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity started it. Like me, he was
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By Judge Andrew P. Napolitano #1. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act President Obama signed into law a 2,700 page bill that gave the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The law as written comes into effect in stages, but
From Conservative News Source- foxnews.com
“Taxes are going to go up one way or another, and I think the key is that taxes go up on high-end individuals.”– President Obama in an interview with Barbara Walters.House Republicans have found themselves in a terrible bind: They are looking to trade a tax increase
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Protesters gather for a rally in the State Capitol rotunda in Lansing, Mich., Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. The crowd is protesting right-to-work legislation passed last week. Michigan could become the 24th state with a right-to-work law next week.
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Michigan — the cradle of the American labor movement — is about to become a “right to work” state. And it’s something of a return to America’s economic roots. Before the New Deal, nearly every state was a “right to work” state. They assumed that
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FILE — In this file photo taken at Chigi Palace government’s office in Rome, on Dec. 6, 2012, Italian Premier Mario Monti gestures arrives for a news conference at the end of a cabinet meeting. Premier Mario Monti told the Italian president Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, he plans to resign following the
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FILE — In this file photo taken at Chigi Palace government’s office in Rome, on Dec. 6, 2012, Italian Premier Mario Monti gestures arrives for a news conference at the end of a cabinet meeting. Premier Mario Monti told the Italian president Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, he plans to resign following the sudden loss
From Conservative News Source- powerlineblog.com
(Paul Mirengoff) President Obama has led from behind on nearly every major foreign policy issue except Israel-Palestine. But now, according to Peter Beinart, Obama plans to lead from behind in that area too. Specifically, says Beinart, Obama will be little involved
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A Syrian general who defected talks to PJM: If opposition gets weapons it needs, “We’ll give you the last weapon after we take over the power.”
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RAHN: Penalized for success Regulatory growth means business death By Richard Rahn Last week, Christine Jacobs, the CEO of Theragenics Corp., a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange that makes medical devices and is involved in cutting-edge cancer cures, wrote a letter to
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The promise of clean and cheap solar energy is getting a second look in California, where utilities are required to get a third of their power from renewable power by 2020. But after millions in tax breaks and handouts, the industry’s honeymoon is over with some counties
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(Paul Mirengoff) Yesterday, in a post about the Washington Redskins thrilling 31-28 overtime win over the Baltimore Ravens, I wrote: Baltimore, in a sense, was a victim of its own success running the ball. Washington’s pass defense is among the worst in the NFL. Any team that passes the ball
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CEO of Maserati Harald Wester poses for photographers next to a new Maserati Quattroporte in Nice, southern France, during a presentation to the media, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The new sixth-generation Maserati Quattroporte is a luxury four-door saloon made by Maserati in
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“The work you’re doing will help power the American economy for years to come.”– President Obama in a Sept. 13, 2010 phone call to battery maker A123 Systems, congratulating the firm on using the bulk of a $249 million government grant to open new facilities
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Nearly two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2030, with most people middle class, connected by technology, protected by advanced health care and the United States and China perhaps cooperating to lead the way. ;That’s the best-case scenario in
From Conservative News Source- nationalreview.com
On Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear arguments in two cases that are at the center of the same-sex-marriage controversy. One concerns the power of people in the states to govern themselves on the question, the other the complementary power of
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President Obama told Bloomberg TV last week that he still hasn’t made up his mind who should replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. That means the effort — conducted both in public and behind closed doors — to persuade him
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Synonymous with the USMC since 1998, the Benelli M4 has been a true workhorse for close-quarter and short range combat. Its reputation has been built on its durability, accuracy, and how well it cycles a variety of rounds, from low-power non-lethal
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — African Union and Somali troops have taken a rebel stronghold north of the Somali capital, another setback for the al-Shabab extremists who once controlled Mogadishu.Witnesses in Jowhar, 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Mogadishu, said Sunday that troops encircled the town before engaging
From Conservative News Source- reason.com
In the debate over avoiding the “fiscal cliff”—especially over whose taxes should and shouldn’t be raised—I detect an annoying attempt to romanticize taxation. I read this as an act of desperation on the part of those who want higher taxes
From Conservative News Source- powerlineblog.com
(Steven Hayward) I’ve been meaning to bring up the following New York Times graphic since it was published last month, as it shows that Republicans are at their highest level of control of state governments in 60 years. Not bad for
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(Steven Hayward) Liberals typically argue that marginal tax rates really don’t make that much difference to economic behavior. So then why are so many companies rushing to pay special dividends before the first of the year, when taxes on dividends will triple
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(Scott Johnson) When this site was redesigned, we added the Picks feature above so that we could note news as it was breaking, bring items of interest to the attention of readers about which we didn’t necessarily have anything to say, or take
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On Thursday, Jonathan Alter took to the pages of Bloomberg to bear solemn witness to the “cruelty, fear, cowardice, xenophobia and disrespect” that have “invaded the inner sanctum of the U.S. government . . . bringing embarrassment and dishonor to what was once
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(John Hinderaker) Promised Land is making a serious run at that title. It is an anti-fracking film that stars Matt Damon, and was written by Damon and John Krasinski of The Office, who unfortunately appears to be a bonehead. In the original script, heroic
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(Steven Hayward) To take you into the weekend, here’s a few of the better photos, cartoons, and other visual mockery that has come my way: Indeed it does.
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(Scott Johnson) Over at NRO, Stanley Kurtz deduces the emerging Democratic agenda from a New York Times op-ed column by Kenneth Baer and Jeffrey Liebman. Kurtz summarizes the column and comments on it: With Obama safely re-elected…we’re now beginning to hear the Democratic
From Conservative News Source- reason.com
Advocates for bigger government believe that government is the most efficient ;and humane provider of goods and services. The presidential election and ongoing debates in California illustrate this frightening phenomenon. Voters chose a ;candidate who has an undying faith in the power of government and, as Steven Greenhut observes, even
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(Steven Hayward) Tom Cotton, that’s who. Newly elected to the House of Representatives from the 4th district in Arkansas, he was one of the Power Line “pick six” we tracked in this last election. He hasn’t received his committee assignments yet. But stay tuned