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Harry Reid Pulls the Spending Bill: Was the 111th Congress the WORST Congress Ever?

Posted in Current Events, Economy, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , , on December 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »

ATLANTA—  I’m no Congressional historian, but I have to imagine the 111th Congress will ultimately be rated among the worst in our nation’s history.  And what a way to finish!  Hustling to shove through another highly controversial, 1,900 page bill just ahead of the holidays.  Barely able to pull together enough votes to pass it.  Same story- different year. [...]

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The Conservative Argument AGAINST Barack Obama’s Social Security Payroll Tax Holiday

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »

This one piece of the compromise plan also explains why growth after next year is likely to be weaker, not higher, than the current optimistic predictions. The problem is the nature of that growth. In the past century both parties and the economists behind them have focused on the business cycle, their theory being that [...]

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Hillary Clinton to Resign due to WikiLeaks Scandal!?

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, tagged , , , on November 30, 2010 | 32 Comments »

ATLANTA–  I am finding the fallout from the WikiLeaks document release to be utterly fascinating.  While most of the revelations have not been all that surprising, the increasing indications that Hillary Clinton may have skirted the edges of international law truly are.  Not three weeks ago, the media was openly discussing whether Hillary Clinton should challenge Barack [...]

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How a Former Reagan Advisor Proposes that Barack Obama Could Balance the U.S. Budget

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, tagged , , , , on November 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »

  ATLANTA— Martin Feldstein wrote a great column that was published over the weekend in the Washington Post about how Barack Obama and Congress could reduce the budget deficit without technically raising taxes.  To do so would require that Mr. Obama go after one of the holy grails of the U.S tax code: federal tax expenditures.  Tax expenditures cost the federal [...]

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The Democrats’ Number One Mistake in Passing ObamaCare

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , on November 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »

ATLANTA— Megan McArdle writing in the Atlantic has been making some very perceptive criticisms of ObamaCare over the past few months.  In her latest piece, she notes that Democrats

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8 Good Reasons NOT to Call General Motor’s IPO a Success

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, tagged , , , , , , on November 19, 2010 | 15 Comments »

ATLANTA— The General Motors initial public offering was completed yesterday to much fanfare, with GM raising $15.8 billion, the second highest IPO in history (second only to VISA in 2008).  Barack Obama called the IPO part of GM’s success story and declared: “we are finally beginning to see some of these tough decisions that we [...]

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Some Things I Hope Republicans Don’t Do in 2011

Posted in Current Events, Domestic Affairs, Economy, Health Care Reform, Politics, tagged , , , , , , on November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »

ATLANTA— I really couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome of last week’s elections, but I view 2011 with some trepidation as well.  Republicans were restored to power, not because they fully convinced voters to reembrace them and their policies, but because the Democrats moved so far to the left, Republicans looked moderately acceptable by [...]

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