Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:54:13 +0000 – By Jon Kraushar Communications Consultant There is a troubling pattern of threes bedeviling the stimulus bill. First is the return of the unholy trinity that brought us the Depression: Smoot, Hawley and Keynes. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 was protectionist legislation that …
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Last October, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) discovered what at the time was considered the mother of all Hamas tunnels. It extended underground for more than a mile and a half from Gaza to Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, a farming community in Israel. People could stand upright when moving through the …
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The television show “Modern Family” is a huge hit. In fact, it was just named the most-watched TV comedy series in the world at the 54th Monte-Carlo TV Festival. Both Gov. Mitt Romney and President Obama in the 2012 campaign said they enjoyed watching it. So, recently, I took time …
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On Monday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dodged a political bullet, when the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the National Rifle Association’s challenge to his state’s highly restrictive gun law. The justices’ decision not to hear the case, Drake v. Jerejian, leaves Second Amendment law in disarray. Federal …
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As a record number of migrants invade the U.S., wreaking pain on New York City and other communities, one group is winning big time: the public advocacy lawyers. Their business is to constantly sue to win more so-called rights for migrants. Rights to shelter, rights to meals, rights to health …
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Hillary was right all along. President Obama wasn’t ready for the 3:00 a.m. phone call. As Bob Woodward’s new book, “Obama’s War,” demonstrates in page after page, President Obama doesn’t know how to be a good wartime president, and doesn’t really want to be one. He sees it as a …
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is giving Democrats fits. The son of former Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy recently declared himself an independent and is running for president. Why should that alarm his former Party? Three reasons: 1. Because they know that Joe …
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If you think offering migrants luxury hotel rooms, free meals, laundry service, transportation, health care and immigration lawyers is excessive, just wait until they can vote. Democrats are pushing to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections in New York City, Boston and other municipalities, as well as statewide in …
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Two airliners landed at Washington Reagan National early Tuesday morning after they couldn’t get any response from the airport tower. Allegedly, the controller was asleep on the job. But the real story goes a lot deeper. What the nation witnessed was yet another warning that the management of nation’s entire …
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The twenty-second anniversary of the start of the Beijing Spring protests arrived this month on April 16. Twenty-two years ago, in the Chinese capital, in Shanghai, and about 370 other cities, Chinese citizens poured into the streets to mourn the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang and plead with Chinese …
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