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June 30, 2010 A tale of two Obama loan guarantees. The manager of a Milwaukee custard stand on Friday asked Joe Biden for lower taxes in return for dessert, and the Vice President told him not to be “a smartass.” Perhaps on his own visit to Wisconsin today, President Obama will have a better answer [...]

June 30, 2010 Stealing American secrets is standard Putin procedure. The scenes are out of John Le Carré—or, more precisely, Rocky and Bullwinkle. The alleged Russian spies include suburban couples, a “flame-haired” divorcée (New York Post), and a columnist for a Spanish-language newspaper. Messages were passed in identical bags dropped at train stations or with [...]

June 30, 2010 The latest reason to oppose Dodd-Frank. A new tax on financial companies seemed like a good idea to Chris Dodd and Barney Frank at 3 a.m. last Friday, but now their $19 billion levy is threatening to blow up their 2,319-page financial bill. So they’re scrambling to replace that cash, but the [...]

June 30, 2010 By Holman W Jenkins Jr. Right now, the U.S. path leads from debt to deflation to stagflation. There’s got to be a better way. A debt crisis starts to mend itself when lenders admit their mistakes and take their losses. A government “bailout”—that incendiary word—can be helpful if taxpayers don’t assume the [...]

June 30, 2010 Uncertainty about future taxes and regulations is enemy No. 1 of economic growth. By ALLAN H. MELTZER The administration’s stimulus program has failed. Growth is slow and unemployment remains high. The president, his friends and advisers talk endlessly about the circumstances they inherited as a way of avoiding responsibility for the 18 [...]

June 29, 2010 The “Journolist” scandal and the case against shield laws. By JAMES TARANTO   David Weigel, a former Washington Post reporter, is sorry–so sorry he apologized twice. Last Thursday Weigel issued his first apology on the Post’s website: I’m a member of an off-the-record list-serv called “Journolist,” founded by my colleague Ezra Klein. [...]

June 30, 2010 By SHAYNDI RAICE And COREY BOLES WASHINGTON—The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has still not explained what kind of justice she would be if confirmed. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), opened the third day of Kagan’s confirmation hearings by saying that while [...]

Jillian Bandes The Truth Behind Kagan’s Political Record June 30, 2010  Anyone watching the SCOTUS hearing is familiar with Elena Kagan denying recruiters on Havard’s campus because the military’s policy towards homosexuality was in conflict with Harvard’s (and Kagan’s) “non-discrimination” policy. So far, it has proven to be the most divisive issue during the proceedings. [...]

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann How Obama Bungled the Oil Spill: An Inside Story June 30, 2010 It’s one thing to say that President Obama’s administration showed its ineptitude and mismanagement in its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is quite another to grasp the situation up close, as I did during [...]