Economic Amnesia—It is an article of faith among the Tea Party movement that the “socialist” policies of Barack Obama have had little effect other than adding to the deficit and federal debt. Studies by the Obama administration and the Congressional Budget Office have found that to the contrary, government intervention meant the difference between a […]

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Pucking Around With Science For a while, the hockey stick carried all before it, perhaps because it seemed to correlate well with the observed increase in carbon dioxide in the 20th century over its 10,000-year baseline. —From Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli’s brief in the Michael E. Mann investigation AUGUST WAS A GOOD MONTH FOR Virginia […]

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Yes and No—Yes. Last month J Street kicked off a national campaign promoting a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine deadlock. J Street is a non-profit advocacy group that describes itself as the “Political Home for Pro-Israel, Pro-peace Americans.” Far more progressive and eclectic than the entrenched American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC: “America’s Pro-Israel Lobby”), […]

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Prosecuting Obama? If they can do this to me, they can do it to President Obama and anyone who ever made a campaign contribution to him and then was appointed ambassador. —Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman ENRON STOCK WAS a prudent investment and Jack Abramoff was an A-List Washington lobbyist when criminal investigators set out […]

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Bang for Your Buck “Nothing has a quicker return on the dollar than unemployment insurance. Once you get to 70 or 80 weeks, and instead of earning $1,000 a week you earn $300 a week, you are in pretty rough shape and everything you get goes right back into the economy.” —Ross Eisenbrey Economic Policy […]

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