hnn.us - 12/17/2008
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Liberty & Power: Group Blog Paul Moreno Obama and the "Second Bill of Rights" Have we given up not just the Constitution, but the Declaration of Independence as well? An Obama presidency, with an overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, could go a long way toward the completion of a European-style ...
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/23/2008
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Via Mark Thoma, Bob Hall and Susan Woodward
argue against the multiplier effect of infrastructure spending by...
pointing out that GDP and military spending rose by about the same amount during World War II. Um, rationing? With the onset of World War II, ...
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newsbusters.org - 12/24/2008
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The Tuesday morning shows of NBC, ABC, and
CBS all promoted Barack Obama’s celebrity status as hosts...
and reporters ogled the latest paparazzi photo of Obama in swim trunks while on vacation in Hawaii, as NBC’s Matt Lauer declared on Today: "And ...
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Network Morning Shows Fawn Over Obama Vacation Photos
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Stones Cry Out —
... The cure is going to be far worse than the disease ever would have been. On our behalf our government has promised to repay debts which seem to exceed our worth and their printing (virtual) money fast enough give it away, 0% interest rates indeed. Our President is promoting a “2nd Bill of Rights” which, calling them rights, is insanity. Entitlements aren’t rights. The “right to recreation?” I’m speechless. ...
"The right to marry does not entitle me to a spouse"
Hit & Run —
... Whole thing here. For more on the problems with the New Deal, don't miss reason.tv's Obama's New New Deal: As bad as the old New Deal? ...
A Sycophant in Wolffe’s Clothing
Pajamas Media —
... care to the stimulus plan to cap and trade . The truth is that Wolffe confuses Obama for a renegade because that’s what his subject told him he was: “I’m not running for president to conform to Washington’s conventional thinking. I’m running to challenge it.” A non-toady would question this assumption as big-spending statism has been all the rage since 19 8 9 . Hagiography notwithstanding, Obama appears to be more ret r ograde than anything else. Yet to leftists the term “renegade” is deemed a ...
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President-elect Barack Obama is within days of completing his cabinet appointments. Although criticism persists about the appropriate number of women, southerners, Latinos, Ivy Leaguers and Clintonites, Obama is on course to finish his cabinet ...
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