Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
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Two Reminders of What Communism Looks Like
Posted on December 18, 2014
“I have seen the future and it is now,” the famous Soviet apologist Lincoln Steffens once wrote about the Russian revolution. He turned out to be wrong, but I betcha...
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The Spending Battle’s Winners and Losers
Posted on December 15, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) So, now that we have dispensed with the “cromnibus,” who won and who lost in the latest budget battle? Here are my picks:...
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How the GOP Gains From Focusing on Spending Now and Immigration Later
Posted on December 5, 2014
(This originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal’s Think Tank) Amid tension over funding the government past next week’s deadline, Congress has invented a term that brings back memories of the...
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Executive Orders: A Short History
Posted on November 21, 2014
The President’s power to issue an executive order is not spelled out in the Constitution. And for the first 75 years or so of our Republic, an...
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A Long Two Years
Posted on November 17, 2014
(This originally appeared in The Hill). It’s going to be a long two years. We all knew that the new Republican majority and the president had vastly different opinions on...
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