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THE FISCAL CLIFF: How To Call The Big Spenders’ Bluff – Forbes
By MB Snow at December 2, 2012 | 12:15 am
Matt Kibbe, OP/ED | 11/29/2012 -- The Fiscal Cliff: How To Call The Big Spenders' Bluff The fiscal cliff – and the hullabaloo surrounding it — is a curious phenomenon. It has been over 3 years since Harry Reid’s Senate passed a budget. The U.S. federal government is over $16 trillion in debt. And Uncle Sam is borrowing 1 out of every 3 dollars he spends. If ... Go To Article
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HILLARY CLINTON: Israel Lacks ‘Empathy,’ ‘Generosity’ Toward Palestinians
By MB Snow at December 2, 2012 | 12:05 am
by BEN SHAPIRO 1 Dec 2012, 6:34 PM -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has never been a friend to Israel. Today, speaking at the 2012 Saban Forum on US-Israel Relations, a liberal organization, she railed against Israel for supposed insensitivity, lack of empathy, and lack of generosity with regard to the Palestinians – even as the Palestinians unilaterally ... Go To Article
ELECTION 2012:: A Nation of Singles | The Weekly Standard
By MB Snow at December 2, 2012 | 12:00 am
BY JONATHAN V. LAST -- For a brief moment last month—roughly a 72-hour span beginning at 11:00 p.m. on November 6 and concluding late in the evening of November 9—everyone in America was interested in demographics. That’s because, in addition to rewarding the just, punishing the wicked, and certifying that America was (for the moment) not racist, ... Go To Article
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ANDREW MCCARTHY: Morsi’s Maneuver – NRO
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 4:43 am
By Andrew C. McCarthy, DECEMBER 1, 2012 He has used the West's democracy fetish to put a gun to his population’s head. Phase II of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s declaration of sweeping dictatorial powers was completed on Thursday night. That is when the “constituent assembly” hastily completed a draft constitution that would enshrine sharia principles ... Go To Article
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WEEKEND INTERVIEW with Harvey Mansfield: The Crisis of American Self-Government – WSJ
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:55 am
By SOHRAB AHMARI, November 30, 2012 -- Harvey Mansfield, Harvard's 'pet dissenter,' on the 2012 election, the real cost of entitlements, and why he sees reason for hope. Cambridge, Mass. 'We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's ... Go To Article
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GUY BENSON: Republicans’ Ace in the Hole: Simpson-Bowles? – Guy Benson
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:50 am
Guy Benson, Political Editor, Townhall.com-Nov 30, 2012 -- Democrats appear to have the upper hand on the politics of the fiscal cliff, which might explain theirbrash pronouncements and mind-blowing conceptualization of "compromise." This morning I outlined three possible contingencies for Republicans, none of which is especially attractive. But is there ... Go To Article
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MCCOTTER: The GOP’s New Foreign Policy: ‘The Same, Unless’
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:48 am
by THADDEUS G. MCCOTTER 30 Nov 2012, 1:34 PM PDT 13 POST A COMMENT In the classic noir novel The Big Sleep, the world-weary private eye Philip Marlowe muses on a man’s final resting place in a dirty sump: “You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.” Nothing better captures a somnambulant Republican Party’s new ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL: Colleges have free speech on the run – The Washington Post
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:45 am
By George F. Will, Friday, November 30, 2012 -- In 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his way through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a janitor, was declared guilty of racial harassment. Without granting Sampson a hearing, the university administration — acting as prosecutor, judge and jury — convicted him of “openly ... Go To Article
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SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL Outlines GOP’s Wish List to Avoid Fiscal Cliff – WSJ
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:40 am
By NAFTALI BENDAVID And JANET HOOK, POLITICS-November 30, 2012 -- WASHINGTON—Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he wanted changes to safety-net programs that focus on altering eligibility requirements, and suggested that if Democrats agreed both sides could move closer to a budget deal to avert the fiscal cliff. In an interview in his Capitol Hill ... Go To Article
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CHRIS CILLIZZA: A must-see 2012 election map
By MB Snow at December 1, 2012 | 12:35 am
By Chris Cillizza - November 30, 2012 at 2:12 pm -- Regular Fix readers know that we are BIG fans of the Patchwork Nation project — an attempt to go beyond the simplistic geographic or socioeconomic categories by which we slice and dice voters and instead develop a richer (and more accurate) way to view the various subsets of our American electorate. So, when we ... Go To Article
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