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The following is an excerpt from JAY COST | May 20, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 34 | TheWeeklyStandard.com |
At his press conference last month, President Barack Obama employed a trope he often uses—that of a sociologist studying his opposition. Explaining how his agenda has stalled in the Senate, he said:
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BYRON RAMBO, MBA, EA
Fellow, National Tax Practice Institute
Byron.Rambo@rsbpartners.com
April 30, 2013
“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.”
- John Adams, First Address to Congress, Nov. 23, 1797.
History has shown (and I have written ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JOSH BOAK | April 23, 2013 | Thefiscaltimes.com |
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) seems to be damned if it does, and damned if it doesn’t, judging by the tangled treatment it’s gotten from certain segments of Congress.
On Tuesday CFPB director Richard Cordray appeared ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from DANIEL HALPER | 1:23 PM, Apr 17, 2013 | TheWeeklyStandard.com |
White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked at today's press briefing, in the context of the Boston bombings, whether U.S. bombings in Afghanistan last month that killed civilians were "terrorism." Carney gave a long ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from FRED BARNES | April 15, 2013 | TheWeeklyStandard.com |
When Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to President Obama, spoke at a Politico event last week, he was asked what would constitute success in 2013 for the White House. One of his answers was making headway ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Matthew Yglesias | April 10, 2013 | Slate.com |
President Obama’s much delayed fiscal year 2014 budget is another salvo in D.C.’s endless war over taxes. Obama embraces both reductions in Medicare payments and a controversial cost-of-living formula to reduce Social Security benefits while demanding ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from FRED BARNES | April 1, 2013 | weeklystandard.com |
President Obama highlighted the need for strong economic growth in his State of the Union address in February, citing it 11 times. He mentioned it 5 times in a speech in Illinois in mid-March. Last week, ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Emily Rauhala | April 4, 2013 | Time.com |
There is not much that brings together Democrats and Republicans these days. But on Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, American politicos are uncharacteritically united. Though largely unknown to U.S. consumers, Huawei Techonlogies is an industry leader ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from YUVAL LEVIN | Apr 1, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 28 | Weeklystandard.com |
As they seek to revive their political fortunes in the wake of last year’s disastrous election, Republicans risk a dangerous misunderstanding: Since Democrats did well last November and Republicans generally didn’t, some ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from ELLIOTT ABRAMS | March 21, 2013 | TheWeeklyStandard.com |
President Obama spoke to the Israeli people today, at the Jerusalem Convention Center. His remarks moved his administration toward the pre-Obama consensus views of the Clinton and Bush administrations, indeed at several points echoing Bush’s 2008 ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from THOMAS JOSCELYN | Mar 11, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 25 | TheWeeklyStandard.com |
During a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center on April 30, 2012, John Brennan, President Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, discussed “The Ethics and Efficacy of the U.S. President’s Counterterrorism Strategy.” ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from MAUREEN MACKEY | March 4, 2013 | Thefiscaltimes.com |
Newt Gingrich says he knows exactly what the Republican Party needs to do to start fixing itself: “You need inclusion, not outreach. Outreach is when five white guys have a meeting and call you. Inclusion is ... Read More
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