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Sunday, March 15
Feds spending millions on Kennedy legacy in Mass.
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 15 Mar 2009 10:35 PM EDT
More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys. The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute. (Feeling 'stimulated' yet? - Roland) More>>>
VDH: Maxing out a crisis card
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 15 Mar 2009 10:11 PM EDT
Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have gone something like this — More>>>
A.I.G. to Pay $100 Million in Bonuses After Huge Bailout
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 15 Mar 2009 07:47 PM EDT
Despite being bailed out with more than $170 billion from the Treasury and Federal Reserve, the American International Group is preparing to pay about $100 million in bonuses to executives in the same business unit that brought the company to the brink of collapse last year. An official in the Obama administration said Saturday that Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner had called A.I.G.’s government-appointed chairman, Edward M. Liddy, on Wednesday and asked that the company renegotiate the bonuses (Mr and Mrs Taxpayer, don't forget to file April 15! The rogues at AIG...and in Congress...are depending on you! - Roland) More>>>
More than a bad day: Worries grow that Barack Obama & Co. have a competence problem
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 15 Mar 2009 07:35 PM EDT
Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on his face and asked, "Do you think they know what they're doing?" The question caught me off guard because the man is a well-known Obama supporter. As we talked, I quickly realized his asking suggested his own considerable doubts. More>>> RELATED: Obama administration to end use of term 'enemy combatant' More>>>
As relevent today as it was when he wrote it over half a century ago: WFB, Jr.'s National Review mission statement
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sun 15 Mar 2009 02:09 AM EDT
November 19, 1955 8:00 AM No superstition has more effectively bewitched America's Liberal elite than the fashionable concepts of world government, the United Nations, internationalism, international atomic pools, etc. Perhaps the most important and readily demonstrable lesson of history is that freedom goes hand in hand with a state of political decentralization, that remote government is irresponsible government. It would make greater sense to grant independence to each of our 50 states than to surrender U.S. sovereignty to a world organization. More>>> |
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