Archive for the ‘spending’ Category
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Taxing the Rich Won’t Help
Posted on October 11, 2011
President Obama has made taxing the rich the centerpiece of his reelection campaign. He talks incessantly about it. It is a key part of his jobs package. So far, an...
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Dilatory Motions
Posted on October 7, 2011
The Senate majority leader moved last night to cut off republican amendments to a Chinese currency bill, calling the amendments dilatory. In doing so, he changed Senate rules and caused...
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Washington Ideas
Posted on October 6, 2011
I had a chance lunch with the founder of Crate and Barrel yesterday at the Washington Ideas Forum. Gordon Segal asked if the empty seat at my small table was...
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Protest
Posted on October 5, 2011
Apparently, Radiohead couldn’t get its schedule straight with the Occupy Wall Street protesters and they didn’t play for the grungy crowd last week. I am not hip enough to know...
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Obama’s Fatal Missteps
Posted on October 4, 2011
Originally posted on THE HILL – October 3, 2011 It might be too early to start analyzing what went wrong with the Obama administration in its first three years, but...
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