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ROSS DOUTHAT: Liberalism’s $400,000 Problem – NYTimes
By MB Snow at January 2, 2013 | 12:45 am
Ross Douthat, January 1, 2013 -- If the tax debate could be simplified to a liberal desire to make sure the tax burden is borne by those who can most easily afford it and a conservative desire to keep taxes as low as possible on as many people as possible, the fiscal-cliff bargain that was struck between Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden over the last 48 hours — a ... Go To Article
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RAMESH PONNURU:: My Political Predictions for 2013 – Bloomberg
By MB Snow at January 2, 2013 | 12:40 am
By Ramesh Ponnuru Dec 31, 2012 3:30 PM PT -- It will also be a year of unexpected setbacks for President Barack Obama’s health-care law. (Unexpected, that is, except by readers of this column.) Its supporters may believe that with the Supreme Court having mostly upheld the plan, and Democrats having kept control of the White House and Senate, the law is no longer ... Go To Article
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JAMES TARANTO:: Long Walks, Short Piers – WSJ
By MB Snow at January 2, 2013 | 12:35 am
By JAMES TARANTO -- America once produced its own bumptious television hosts. Men like Phil Donahue, Wally George, Morton Downey Jr. and Geraldo Rivera did rough and degrading work, but at least they knew the dignity of having a job. Now, they say, it has become one of those jobs Americans won't do. American media companies are forced to import workers like Piers ... Go To Article
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NORQUIST: TAKE ‘FISCAL CLIFF’ DEAL – Human Events
By MB Snow at January 2, 2013 | 12:30 am
By: Neil W. McCabe, Jan. 1, 2012 -- The leader of the tax advocacy group that promotes the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” between candidates and the voters told Human Events Jan. 1 he supports the fiscal cliff compromise. “The smart D’s are angry and the smart R’s are happy—that should tell you something,” said Grover G. Norquist, the founding president ... Go To Article
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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM PNN
By MB Snow at January 1, 2013 | 12:55 am
Cheers from Jenn and ... Go To Article
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OBAMA, SENATE REPUBLICANS near agreement on ‘fiscal cliff’ – WaPo
By MB Snow at January 1, 2013 | 12:50 am
By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, Updated: Monday, December 31, 2012 President Obama and Senate leaders struck a bipartisan agreement late Monday to let income taxes rise sharply for the first time in two decades, fulfilling Obama’s promise to raise taxes on the rich and avoiding the worst effects of the “fiscal cliff.” The agreement, brokered by Vice ... Go To Article
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BOEHNER Can’t Get Majority of GOP to Back Deal
By MB Snow at January 1, 2013 | 12:45 am
by MATTHEW BOYLE 31 Dec 2012, 2012 American Majority Action, the conservative group that’s leading the charge against House Speaker John Boehner continuing in his current position, said Monday evening that Boehner doesn’t have at least 50 percent of his House GOP members’ support for the fiscal cliff deal that Senate leaders and the White House have reportedly ... Go To Article
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ECONOMY: Deal’s Likely Impact: More Slow Growth – WSJ
By MB Snow at January 1, 2013 | 12:45 am
By SUDEEP REDDY, POLITICSDecember 31, 2012, 9:27 p.m. ET WASHINGTON—Brace for painfully slow growth, but not necessarily a recession. The deal struck Monday between the White House and Senate Republicans would prevent the sudden across-the-board spending cuts and a jump in income-tax rates that had raised fears of a 2013 recession. But it would leave in place tax ... Go To Article
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JOHN FUND:: The Mega Scandal Everyone Has Forgotten – NRO
By MB Snow at January 1, 2013 | 12:35 am
By John Fund -- In Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi used an old Jedi mind trick on Stormtroopers to deflect them from their real quarry: “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” It worked. It looks as if another mind trick, well known in the Congress — delay and deflection — will now work to make Americans forget one of the biggest scandals of our time: ... Go To Article
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KEVIN WILLIAMSON:: Risk, Relativism, and Resources – NRO
By MB Snow at January 1, 2013 | 12:30 am
By Kevin D. Williamson -- Conservatives understand the intellectual roots of conservatism better than progressives do, for obvious reasons, but we also understand the intellectual roots of progressivism better than progressives do. That is the case in no small part because progressives prefer to think of themselves as non-ideological pragmatists and empiricists, and ... Go To Article
