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Why the Government Shutdown Is a Welcome Development

thenewamerican.com

by Charles Scaliger

October 5, 2013

The very fact that the government shutdown has forced Washington to admit that much of what it does is "non-essential" is an important wake-up call.

With the partial government shutdown now in its fifth day, the rhetoric among Democrats and among the pro-Beltway mainstream media has reached a fever pitch, with the leaders of the Republican opposition being likened to jihadists and terrorists, and pilloried for their alleged callous and irresponsible behavior. The federal government, as a Reuters story observed on October 1 - without a trace of irony - has had to divide its functions and employees between "essential" and "non-essential," and furlough or idle the latter. Thus, we now have the federal government reduced to discharging only "essential" functions - which, it turns out, is still roughly 85 percent of what it was doing prior to October 1.

Why The Obama Recovery Has Been Much More Impressive Than Reagan's

businessinsider.com

by Joe Weisenthal

January 28, 2012

The 2012 election will revolve around the economy, and somehow Obama will have to make the case that he should be re-elected with GDP growing below historical trend, and unemployment above 8 percent.

James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute has been doing a lot of work comparing the Obama recovery to the Reagan recovery, pointing out how much more robust the latter was. In a new post, he takes aim at the suggestion that comparing the two recoveries is somehow unfair because Obama had to deal with the aftermath of the housing bust, whereas Reagan didn't.

Why the Paul Ryan budget was a farce...

ronpaulforums.com

August 11, 2012

It led to 10 more years of deficit spending; It added between $5-11 TRILLION dollars to the national debt; It spent a total of $40 TRILLION over the next 10 years; His plan REQUIRED the debt ceiling to be raised; It was an obviously unbalanced budget (in fact it doesn't fully balance until the year 2040); It increased spending over the next few years (it merely slows the rate of spending, not actually cutting spending anytime soon); It was was bigger than what we had under Bill Clinton...

Why were roadblocks in St. Clair and Bibb counties asking for blood and DNA samples this weekend?

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by William Thornton

June 10, 2013

St. Clair and Bibb county authorities are confirming there were roadblocks at several locations in their counties Friday and Saturday asking for blood and DNA samples.

However, the samples were "voluntary" and motorists were paid for them as part of a study, they said. According to Lt. Freddie Turrentine of the St. Clair County Sheriff's Department, it isn't the first time such roadblocks have occurred in the area.

Why yes, income inequality is a problem

Hot Air

by Jazz Shaw

October 29, 2011

One of the hot terms occupying the center ring of the political circus these days is "income inequality." (See what I did there?)

It's become so popular, in fact, that the Congressional Budget Office has jumped on the bandwagon and produced a study on it. Right off the bat, I would note that there is something inherently stirring for Americans about the term inequality. We don't like it and we never have. The long term trend of our nation's admittedly flawed past has been to eliminate, not reinforce, instances of inequality.

WI Recall: Union Boss Pushes New Media Camera Away

breitbart.com

by John Nolte

June 4, 2012

The Wisconsin-based MacIver Institute has been one of the New Media heroes on the ground during this entire Wisconsin recall mess, and in the video below, you'll see that the frustration anti-Walker forces feel towards New Media is at first amusing, as SEIU executive Bruce Colburn whines to the crowd specifically about New Media. But in the video's second half, things turn a little frightening as Colburn physically manhandles a camera held by a MacIver reporter...

WI Senate orders fleebaggers to return or face contempt charges

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

March 3, 2011

Patience has worn thin in Madison with the fleebaggers.

After Wisconsin's Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald attempted to negotiate an end to the impasse over the budget-repair bill and got rebuffed, Republicans took a much tougher stance this afternoon. Accusing Democrats of holding democracy "hostage," the Senate passed a measure giving absent Democrats until 4 pm today to appear - or face charges of contempt that could result in their detention by law enforcement...

WI unions not terribly keen on high school's "Stand With Walker" chant

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

March 21, 2012

This just seems so unsporting.

After all, these high-school students didn't make threatening calls to the unions that were singing their silly "Solidarity Song" in the capitol rotunda in Madison, to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic...

Wikileaks cable hints that Obama wanted to issue apology for Hiroshima

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

October 12, 2011

Don't worry too much about this story. I'm sure Barack Obama would have waited for Japan's apology for Pearl Harbor, the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the treatment of American POWs...

The most fascinating part of this was the discouragement given by the Japanese Vice Foreign Minister. Presumably, a Japanese government that got an American President to bow to their national sense of victimhood from the consequences of launching a brutal war of conquest in the 1930s - bowing in the rhetorical sense, of course - would have acquired a huge amount of political goodwill. The government in Tokyo at that time certainly needed a political boost.

WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord

guardian.co.uk

by Fabien Cousteau

December 7, 2010

Embassy dispatches show America used spying, threats and promises of aid to get support for Copenhagen accord.

Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.

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