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From the Center for Strategic and International Studies: A moment has arrived when a great power with global responsibilities is having a crisis of confidence. Its economy has grown sluggish and it is being…
Read MoreA piece in the Wall Street Journal at the end of last week with the above title and subtitle reported more about what we already know—but they got an important fact wrong. The precarious…
Read MoreFrom George Will: The election-eve mood is tinged with sadness stemming from well-founded fear that America’s new government is subverting America’s old character. Barack Obama’s agenda is a menu of temptations intended to change…
Read MoreWhen I write about the incompetence of the Republican Party in Illinois, this, from Mike Shedlock, is one of the things I’m referring to: I just finished slogging through a 69 page PDF by…
Read MoreWhen I write about the incompetence of the Republican Party in America, this, from Daniel Mitchell, is one of the things I’m referring to: I’ve shared BIS and OECD data showing that the United…
Read MoreFrom Amity Shlaes: ‘When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies…
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Illinois is mentioned yet again…don’t it just make ya proud of the Illinois Republican Party? The State Budget Crisis Commission has released a new report on Illinois in which it chronicles the long descent…
Read MoreWanna bet not one in ten Republican candidates know how to address this issue? Another good one from Heritage: But one that didn’t get corrected by either candidate Tuesday night when Katherine Fenton asked…
Read MoreA good one from Steve Deace: After wasting a generation growing government at nearly the same rate as Democrats and failing to defend free market capitalism in the arena of ideas, Republicans can no…
Read MoreFrom Nicole Gelinas at City Journal: In [Tuesday’s] presidential debate, GOP nominee Mitt Romney returned again and again to a theme: that the last four years have been grim ones for the American people….
Read MoreFrom the Cato Institute: Sometimes it’s no fun to be an economist. Or, to be more specific, it’s rather frustrating to understand Bastiat’s insight about the “seen” and the “unseen” and to always be…
Read MoreHere is how a failed Administration pretends that unemployment is dropping: 1. Ignore this fact… [S]ince January 2009, for every person added to the labor force, 10 have been added to those not in…
Read MoreIt’s not complicated now and it never has been. From Speaker John Boehner: Did you know that, on President Obama’s watch, 10 people have dropped out of the workforce for every one new job…
Read MoreAnd the Republican Party has aided and abetted this every step of the way. From the Heritage Foundation: Nicholas Eberstadt details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. Today, entitlement…
Read MoreFrom the NCPA: The recovery from the recent recession has been very sluggish, and the nation’s governors have struggled with the resulting budget deficits, unemployment and other economic problems in their states. Many reform-minded…
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