“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...
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“Modest” Education Proposal Revealed President Obama has been lauded by the press for almost fully funding federal education initiatives, even as he makes large spending cuts. But data show...
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“Modest” Education Proposal Revealed
Item:An Education Weekblog for February 14, in a piece entitled “Obama Proposes Modest Hike in Education Spending for FY 2012,” reported that “education is a bright spot in an...
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Accumulating More Debt Is Borrowing Trouble Barack Obama, State of the Union Address. (Photo credit: AP Images) Item: In his State of the Union Address, reported the Washington Post...
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Accumulating More Debt Is Borrowing Trouble
Item: In his State of the Union Address, reported the Washington Post for January 26, President Obama “for the first time” did not “hail a newly passed ‘recovery act’...
Hu Gets Red-carpet Treatment at White House
Item: “Chinese leader Hu Jintao,” reported the Associated Press on January 16, “is being feted in Washington this week with a lavish state banquet at the White House and...
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Misrule by the Unelected Item: The Los Angeles Times, in a December 24 article entitled “Pristine areas of the West are again preserved,” reported: “Restoring a policy abandoned by...
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Misrule by the Unelected
Item: The Los Angeles Times, in a December 24 article entitled “Pristine areas of the West are again preserved,” reported: “Restoring a policy abandoned by the George W. Bush...
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G-Men Go on Girth-control Mission Gluttonous control: Under a new law pushed by Michelle Obama to stem childhood obesity, the federal government is taking additional control over foods sold...
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G-Men Go on Girth-control Mission
Item: “Thousands more children would eat lunches and dinners at school and all school food would become more nutritious under a bill President Obama signed into law Monday,...
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Dangerous Rush for New START Giving away the house: Top Democrats have been pushing for passage of the new START Treaty with the Russians, even though the treaty demands...
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New EPA Regulations
Item: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, reported The Hill for September 23, “is adopting a populist stance as she pushes ahead with first-time greenhouse gas rules, charging that...
Incremental Amnesty
Item: The Wall Street Journal for October 8 reported that President Obama is likely to scale back his legislative plans next year, citing immigration reform as an example. White...
The Race to Centralize Education
Item: An article from the Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky), reprinted in the Miami Herald for September 21, asserts: “Students from poor families would feel the most pain if calls by...
China Embraces U.S. Debt and Technology
Item: A senior Chinese general, reported Xinhua, China’s state news agency, on September 1, just met in Beijing “with the head of a leading U.S. think tank and discussed...
Social Security in the Red
Item: In the early years of the Depression, write Robert Dreier and Donald Cohen in an article entitled “Ignore the fear-mongering on Social Security,” in the Los Angeles Times...
Killer Taxes on the Living and the Dead
Item: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, as reported by AP/CBS on August 3, said that “it would be ‘deeply irresponsible’ for the Obama administration to support a wholesale extension of...
Getting Jobbed by the Government
Item: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said not long ago that unemployment insurance is “one of the biggest stimuluses [sic] to our economy.” Fox News.com reported on July 1:...
“Stimulated” Out of Jobs
Item: Speaking in Canada where he was attending the Group of 20 summit, “President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through on a pledge to rein in...
The Goal Is Rationed Care
Item: “Only a few months after the heated battles on Capitol Hill,” said Time for June 14, “it must have been quite a relief for President Obama to turn...