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Miscellany
Q&A: Gary Johnson Embarks on “One of Humankind’s Great Adventures”
Concord, NH
Former two-term New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is running for president. He’s not testing the waters or forming an exploratory committee. Thursday, on the steps to the New Hampshire State Building, he announced …
Time to Cut the Budget? AARP Is Your Enemy
I have been 50 years old for about ten weeks now, and already I have received five identical invitations to join AARP, the group formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons. This wasteful barrage would be enough to make me hate AARP, except for the fact that I started hating AARP 30 years ago and never stopped. Let me …
Morning Must Reads: 100
- The 2011 TIME 100, our list of influentials written by their peers, is out. It’s worth clicking around, but here are a few from our neck of the woods: President Obama on Gabby Giffords, Scott Walker on Paul Ryan, Oprah on Cory Booker, Mitch Daniels on Chris Christie, Rahm Emanuel on Joe Biden, Rush Limbaugh on Michele Bachmann,
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Morning Must Reads: Parable
- Obama will bring his political balancing act to the Facebook campus today. The Journal reports talks between Robert Gibbs and the company have fallen apart.
- Stan Collender thinks the Congress needs to get an initial failed debt ceiling vote out of the way to give cover for inevitable passage.
- Democratic independent expenditure
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American Idol For Conservatives: You Decide
Okay, Swamplanders. Who will America choose? First up, Sharron Angle, late from her turn as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada. She will be performing Lee Greenwood’s God Bless The USA.
Morning Must Reads: Dissatisfied
- A Washington Post/ABC News poll finds President Obama’s disapproval rating back at 50%, seemingly driven by the highest economic pessimism — 44% say things are getting worse — since March, 2009. A likely culprit for that
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Poor Standards
The news that Standard & Poor’s has decided to issue a warning that the US government’s AAA bond rating might be in some jeopardy if a deficit-reduction agreement isn’t reached should elicit several responses from sophisticated readers. My own threshold response is: Hey, weren’t you the same guys who gave AAA ratings to the repackaged …
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Obama’s Obsession With Tax Rates Belies the Real Issue
The long-term fiscal picture of the U.S. government is all kinds of crazy—that seems to be the one thing everyone in Washington can agree to. A full examination of every budgetary delusion, fantasy and mania would require a tome the size of the Bible, so for now I want to look at just one madness: The Democratic obsession with the top …