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Desperation On Rise 8.22.11
Economy: In another sign of how lousy the president's so-called recovery's been, millions of desperately unemployed are now threatening to sink Social Security's disability lifeboat. This year, 3.3 million people are expected to apply to Social Security
Obama's Amnesty-Light Is A Bad Dream 8.19.11
Immigration: Unable to get "comprehensive immigration reform" past Congress, the White House announces it will halt deportations on a case-by-case basis for some illegal aliens. Don't enforce the law and they will come. Following a pattern of making law
Green Jobs, Red Faces 8.19.11
Industrial Policy: The fact that President Obama's "green jobs" campaign has been an enormously expensive failure is now so glaringly obvious even the New York Times can't ignore it any longer. In a surprisingly candid article headlined "Number of Green
Get Out Of The Way Of The Jobs 8.19.11
Government: What should President Obama do to get America working again when he returns from his Martha's Vineyard vacation? The real question is: What should he stop doing? The president goes through the motions of taking a bus tour (on a foreign-built
Editorial: Is A Weaker U.S. Part Of Debt Deal? 8.18.11
National Security: With his boss on vacation, Vice President Joe Biden has a very important job to do. He's in China, begging communist officials to please keep buying our bonds. If they do, what's he giving them in return? Sending Biden to China, pardon
Lack Of Transparency 8.18.11
Accountability: After a long legal battle, a federal judge has ruled that White House visitor logs are public and can be released under the Freedom of Information Act. So much for the White House's vaunted claim to openness. It took the lawyers of Judici
Press Works To Debunk Texas Miracle 8.18.11
Media: It didn't take long for journalists weary of defending President Obama's dismal economic record to start trashing Gov. Rick Perry's superior results in Texas. Now if they can just get their facts straight. Since Perry threw his hat into the presid
In Defense Of Ratings Agencies 8.18.11
Wall Street: Miffed that Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. credit on President Obama's watch, the left is doing its best to downgrade the rating agency's own credibility. But S&P's getting a bad rap. Attorney General Eric Holder is investigating whether
Sun Sets On The President's Policies 8.18.11
Power: As a White House-favored green-energy company files for bankruptcy, the Export-Import Bank announces $500 million in loans for solar energy projects — in India. America is being thrown under the president's bus. It's bad enough we lavish and oft
Perry Vs. Petty: A Fight That Republicans Can Do Without 8.18.11
Election '12: GOP consultant Karl Rove's provincial squabbles with Texas Gov. Rick Perry have no place in the national discourse. The Republican establishment had best set its eyes on the prize: defeating Obama. Perry's entry into the presidential sweeps