Student loan defaults are growing, and the worst is still to come. Sep 30, 2011 WSJ When critics warned about rising defaults on government-backed student loans two years ago, the question was how quickly taxpayers would feel the pain. The U.S. Department of Education provided part of the answer this month when it reported that [...]

How to raise costs on U.S. construction. Sep 30, 2011 WSJ President Obama has gone out of his way to avoid calling his American Jobs Act a second stimulus. But you won’t notice any difference in the “Buy American” provision of his new proposal. It reads the same, word for word, as the Buy American [...]

Look for liberals to start citing Bush v. Gore. Sap 30, 3011 WSJ The Justice Department requested Wednesday that the Supreme Court hear the historic constitutional challenges to President Obama’s health-care plan, making a final ruling prior to the 2012 election all but inevitable. Justice has its reasons, but let’s underscore what a remarkable moment [...]

Is President Obama paving the way for GOP tax reform? Sep 30, 2011 WSJ By STEPHEN MOORE ‘Suddenly, liberal Democrats are making the same argument about the tax code that I’ve been making for 20 years,” laughs former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey. “Welcome to the party.” Mr. Armey, who along with Steve Forbes [...]

Obama’s latest economic proposals are just like the earlier ones, only worse. Sep 30, 2011 WSJ By PETE DU PONT In the last few years, as promised, the Obama administration has fundamentally transformed America. Our country is now in serious decline. Income is lower, unemployment is higher, jobs are fewer, government is much larger. Federal [...]

If Obama can’t part them, maybe Erica Payne will. Sep 29, 2011 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO The latest email from the Obama campaign carries the subject line “Why we’ve been sending you emails.” Here’s the answer, which appears over the signature of Rufus Gifford, national finance director of Obama for America: I know we’ve been [...]

When Admiral Mike Mullen hands over the most senior military job Friday, the changing of the guard at the Pentagon will be complete. Sep 29, 2011 WSJ By MATTHEW KAMINSKI When Admiral Mike Mullen hands over the most senior military job Friday, the changing of the guard at the Pentagon will be complete. Robert Gates [...]

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SEP 30, 2011 JOHN RANSOM Right now the administration is running the political equivalent of the two minute offense in order to push $6 to $10 billion in new loan guarantees to companies that will create a few hundred jobs before the clock expires. Economics won’t be a consideration in these decisions. Instead, the money [...]

By Oliver North (Archive) · Friday, September 30, 2011 WASHINGTON — When the U.S. State Department announced this week that it finally is going to designate the Haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization, it was a nonevent for most of our countrymen. That’s because few Americans know how deadly the organization is. For that [...]