One Euro, One Europe, One Mounting Mess
Item: “European Union foreign ministers are debating a tax on financial institutions that could raise money for the EU as well as make banks share the burden of bailout,”...
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Playing Down the PLA
Item: The New York Times for August 26 reported that Chinese defense officials had “denounced” a Pentagon “report that called China’s military buildup ‘potentially destabilizing.’” The paper cited a...
The Real School Scandal
Item: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for July 13, in an account on the city’s recent school cheating scandal, reported: “Pressure to meet testing targets was a major reason cheating took...
The All-embracing United Nations
Item: The Associated Press reported on July 15 on the UN’s proposed Arms Trade Treaty to regulate weapons worldwide: The French Ambassador, Eric Danon, “said the treaty aims to...
Regulating Jobs to Death
Item: In the Wall Street Journal for May 26, Cass Sunstein (photo at left), the President’s top regulator, wrote: “A 21st-century regulatory system must promote economic growth, innovation and...
Border Claims and Other Fables
Item: In a speech in El Paso, Texas, on May 10, President Obama mocked those who have resisted his policies on illegal immigration and border security. “They wanted a...
Promoting Pain at the Pump
Item: A letter from President Obama to congressional leaders, dated April 26 and posted on the White House website, urged that they “take immediate action to eliminate unwarranted tax...
Running Amok With “Entitlements”
Item:In The Hill for April 6, Representative Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.), the second-ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, wrote an op-ed entitled “Seniors, Say Goodbye to Your Healthcare,” charging...
Correction, Please!
ObamaCare’s Annual Check-up: Ailing, to Get Worse Item: “More than 100 health care reform advocates rallied Wednesday near the site of the new Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center to...
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ObamaCare’s Annual Check-up: Ailing; to Get Worse
Item: “More than 100 health care reform advocates rallied Wednesday near the site of the new Samuel U. Rodgers Health Center to celebrate the anniversary of the Affordable Care...
Correction, Please!
Gun Controllers Don’t Want to Waste Tucson Tragedy Item: President Obama wrote in the Arizona Daily Star for March 13 about the mass shooting that had taken place in...
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Gun Controllers Don’t Want to Waste Tucson Tragedy
Item: President Obama wrote in the Arizona Daily Star for March 13 about the mass shooting that had taken place in Tucson two months previously in a piece headlined,...
Correction, Please!
“Clean Energy” Used for Dirty Work Item: Bloomberg News reported on March 1, 2011: “Cutting ozone pollution using the Clean Air Act will have saved $2 trillion by 2020...
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Correction, Please!
Running Amok With “Entitlements” Telling tales? Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.), while defending entitlement spending, claimed that Social Security didn’t add to the U.S. debt, but since there isn’t any...
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“Clean Energy” Used for Dirty Work
Item: Bloomberg News reported on March 1, 2011: “Cutting ozone pollution using the Clean Air Act will have saved $2 trillion by 2020 and prevented at least 230,000 deaths...