Month: February 2009
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"Stimulus" Bill Would Gut Welfare Reform
Buried deep in the so-called “stimulus” bill is an appalling sneak attack on one of the most important positive legacies of the previous Democratic president. As a National Review Online headline calls it, the provision amounts to “Ending Welfare Reform as We Knew It.” At the Heritage Foundation website, Robert E. Rector and Katherine Bradley […]
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Dr. Doom Is Still Prescribing, and Says Stimulus Is the Wrong Medicine
Remember Peter Schiff, who was subjected to ridicule for years for predicting that the housing prices and stocks were in a bubble that would eventually collapse? Well, I sure hope someone can convince me that he’s wrong this time. (Hat tip: Conservative Command) He’s ratcheting up the dire rhetoric even more than President Obama is. […]
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Obama, Geithner Try to Calibrate Our Anxiety Level
Above all else, one thing was crystal clear after President Obama’s prime-time news conference last night: The President doesn’t read this blog. (What, you thought I was gonna talk about the economy?) Despite my admonition yesterday to Stop Saying “Depression”, Obama used the D word twice, once in his opening remarks and once in response […]
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Slow Down on the Stimulus, and Stop Saying “Depression”
Not even close. My nomination for understated headline of the year goes to today’s Washington Post: “If Spending Is Swift, Oversight May Suffer.” Gee, ya think? The $827 billion stimulus legislation under debate in Congress includes provisions aimed at ensuring oversight of the massive infusion of contracts, state grants and other measures. At the urging […]
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Global Warming and the Anthropogenic Financial Crisis
When listening to President Obama’s dire predictions of “catastrophe” if a stimulus bill is not passed now now now now now, is anyone else reminded of the global warming debate? Even most skeptics about what Taranto calls “global warmism” would concede that there are valid reasons to want to reduce the use of fossil fuels […]
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Iraqis Vote to Stabilize Their Country
Incomplete election returns from Iraq are very heartening. In addition to being almost completely peaceful — with security provided solely by Iraqi forces, with Americans on standby — the results appear to have strengthened the secular government of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The various Sunni factions, which largely boycotted the 2005 elections, appear to […]
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Honeymoon-Over Watch: Daschle and the Post-Racial Presidency
Tom Daschle withdrew as nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services yesterday, reportedly to enable him to audition for a better-paying movie gig as Harry Potter’s dad. The Washington Post reports (emphasis added): Obama officials had sought a seamless transition, nominating most of his Cabinet at record pace and taking office ready to implement […]
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In Iraq, the People Have Spoken — Peacefully
What if they held an election and the terrorists stayed home? From MSNBC: BAGHDAD – Iraqis held their most peaceful election since the fall of Saddam Hussein on Saturday, and voting for provincial councils ended without a single major attack reported anywhere in the country. In the NBC Nightly News report of the elections, below, […]