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DEHAVEN: Five decades of failure are enough
posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
With trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, policymakers need to scour the federal budget for departments to cut and eliminate. They should start with ones that are not just wasteful, but actively damaging to the economy. Top of the list would be the $60 billion Department of Housing and Urban Development.
CROWLEY: Obama's blizzard of confusion
posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
In the middle of the blizzard that buried Washington last weekend, President Obama left the White House to address the Democratic National Committee (DNC). His motorcade was delayed for a few minutes because one car lost control and slid into one of the press vehicles. On the way back to the White House after Mr. Obama's remarks, a tree branch snapped under the weight of the snow and fell on top of the vehicle that had been hit earlier. What happened in between each mishap wasn't much better.
BIRNBAUM: Obama should learn from 'Snowmageddon'
posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The massive snowstorm this week in Washington was a good reminder about the value of doing nothing.
EDITORIAL: Obama's perpetual campaign mode
posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
President Obama's promise to usher in a "new kind of politics" is nothing new, and it hasn't changed anything inside the Beltway. During his State of the Union address, Mr. Obama said, "We cannot wage a perpetual campaign," and he made the same point when he criticized House Republicans at their Jan. 28 meeting in Baltimore, but that's exactly what his White House team is doing. It's not working.
FORTENBERRY: Protesters are key to halting nuclear designs
posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Unless we improve our strategy, the world will awaken very soon to the headline, "Iran has the nuclear bomb."
BERES: Concluding the sanctions comedy
posted at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The comedy is finished!
EDITORIAL: Fudging jobless statistics
posted at 4:51 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Last week's new unemployment numbers were bittersweet. At the same time the Bureau of Labor Statistics was declaring that the unemployment rate had declined slightly, to 9.7 percent, the government also was announcing that the economy had lost about 824,000 more jobs during the recession from April 2008 to March 2009 than Americans previously had been told. If this sounds like bureaucratic doublespeak, it is.
BINLEY: Iran revolution needs support
posted at 4:21 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Iran's nuclear activities - this week ramped up with fresh plans to expand uranium enrichment - and its sponsorship of international terrorism pose an ever-growing threat that must be dealt with by the international community. A year after President Obama took office, his administration talks little of a policy of rapprochement toward Iran, and indeed, he has decided to strengthen the U.S. fleet in the Persian Gulf to counter what he clearly sees as a heightened threat. However, both the European Union and the Americans have wasted much time pursuing a policy of appeasement, which clearly has failed. If we had listened to the right people, we might not have wasted that time.
RAHN: Where is the inflation?
posted at 4:17 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Most economists, including yours truly, have been saying that the huge budget deficits the country is running will result in inflation. So, where's the inflation? Inflation normally lags changes in the growth of the money supply by one to two years. The big monetary expansion took place in the last half of 2008. So if the economy follows past trends, one would expect to see growing inflation by the latter part of this year.
EDITORIAL: Caged Panther investigation
posted at 11:59 a.m. on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
In their bid to protect President Obama's liberal political appointees at the Justice Department, congressional Democrats are surrendering their responsibility to keep a presidential administration honest.
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EDITORIAL: Fudging jobless statistics
Last week's new unemployment numbers were bittersweet. At the same time the Bureau of Labor Statistics was declaring that the unemployment rate had declined slightly, ...
EDITORIAL: Obama's perpetual campaign mode
President Obama's promise to usher in a "new kind of politics" is nothing new, and it hasn't changed anything inside the Beltway. During his State ...
EDITORIAL: Caged Panther investigation
In their bid to protect President Obama's liberal political appointees at the Justice Department, congressional Democrats are surrendering their responsibility to keep a presidential administration ...
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FORTENBERRY: Protesters are key to halting nuclear designs
Unless we improve our strategy, the world will awaken very soon to the headline, "Iran has the nuclear bomb."
BERES: Concluding the sanctions comedy
The comedy is finished!
BINLEY: Iran revolution needs support
Iran's nuclear activities - this week ramped up with fresh plans to expand uranium enrichment - and its sponsorship of international terrorism pose an ever-growing ...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Keep the drug czar
As a longtime drug-prevention activist, I see Timothy Lynch's proposal to get rid of the U.S. drug czar's office ("Drug czar should go," Commentary, Monday) as seriously irrational.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Set aside budget woes and lobby to end war
Americans are understandably upset about their money being squandered and their wishes ignored ("Obama's '11 budget knife takes smaller cuts," Page I, Feb. 2). But we only get one vote, so we have to make it count. If we want positive change, we should tell all politicians that to earn our votes they must do several things.
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