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By Roy Exum (Archive) · Friday, April 23, 2010 When the man arrived at the Election Commission office last week to vote for his man, it was easy to see why he became quickly confused. He knew who was going to get his vote alright but when the clerk asked if he wanted the Republican [...]

By Michael Gerson (Archive) · Friday, April 23, 2010 WASHINGTON — Following the passage of Democratic health care reform legislation, President Obama assured the country that it was a “middle-of-the-road, centrist approach” instead of an intrusive, government power grab. But the government seems incapable of resisting the nannying impulse that undermines this claim. So health [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Friday, April 23, 2010 Five years ago this week, my former boss William F. Buckley started a column thusly: “Every ten years I quote the same adage from the late Austrian analyst Willi Schlamm, and I hope that ten years from now someone will remember to quote it in my [...]

Apr 23, 2010 By Ann Kane Two articles which deal directly with the financial reform legislation coming up for a vote next week in the Senate hit on the deceitful practices of non-profit, self help organizations.  The excerpts give a synopsis of what’s going on behind the scenes.  According to one of the articles, the [...]

Apr 22, 2010 Regulation: President Obama went to New York City Thursday to make clear his displeasure with what he called Wall Street’s “failure of responsibility.” But that’s the very thing government is guilty of. Most Americans, we believe, support the president’s goal of “updated, common-sense regulation” that will prevent future crises like the one [...]

Apr 23, 2010 AFGHANISTAN STORIES:   Blackanthem Military News   Parwan PRT visits Kohe Safi By Bagram Media Center   Army Spc. Richard Cusack, Parwan PRT security element, provides security during a key leader engagement in Dandar, Kohe Safi, April 15. The PRT conducted the mission to meet the sub-gov., and assess the district’s needs.  [...]

Apr 22, 2010 State and local governments face looming pension crisis By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Usually it takes a national government to spend itself into a debt measured in the trillions. Yet it comes as little surprise that the same profligacy that pervades the corridors of federal power infects this country’s 87,000 state, county and [...]

Apr 23, 2010 Democrats aren’t pro-choice about most things By THE WASHINGTON TIMES Government mandates what types of cars we’re permitted to drive, what types of light bulbs we can use and even what toi- lets we have. Top state and federal income tax rates will soon total more than 50 percent of income in [...]

Apr 23, 2010 Anger is a legitimate expression of political discontent By THE WASHINGTON TIMES The rising wave of popular activism in the United States is ritually derided by liberal commentators, politicians and academics as fringe-movement politics. But recent polling reveals that skepticism about government is broad and deep. Discontent with Washington has become the [...]