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First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Why Be Like Sweden?

Our Europhile President and many Congressional Democrats aspire to make the United States more like Sweden. More like our outdated image of Sweden, anyway; the real Sweden is undergoing something of a free market renaissance. In this video from the ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Power Line]
Entities: Sweden, United States
First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Obama's self-defeating crusade against Israel

President Obama is attempting to use a mis-timed announcement by Israel of its intention to build housing units in East Jerusulem as a means of pressuring Israel into making major concessions to the Palestinian Authority. Israel has apologized for the ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

Is That A Threat Or A Promise?

Barack Obama says he won't campaign for any Democrats who vote against the government medicine bill. Somehow, I don't think that's going to have the intended effect. ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
Entities: Barack Obama
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Throw the Bums Out

Voters seem to be paying attention to the corrupt processes the Democrats are using to try to take control of the health care industries, and they don't like them. I'm pretty sure that's the explanation for Scott Rasmussen finding Republicans with ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 Documents

Obamacare through the prism of Romneycare

Tim Cahill is the state treasurer of Massachusetts. He recently bolted the Democratic Party to run for governor. The Boston Globe reports Cahill's pointed comments on Obamacare as with a local twist: State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

3,000 percent!

Stumping for Obamacare yesterday in Ohio, Obama touted its manifold virtues like the patent remedy salesmen of old. For whatever ails us, this legislation is the cure. Here Obama touts the legislation's magical reduction of expenses for employers ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

An unconstitutional solution

Michael McConnell , a law professor at Stanford and a former judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, argues that the "Slaughter solution" for enacting Obamacare is unconstitutional. The argument, which appears in the Wall Street ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

When Obamacare met Obama-ed, part 2

Professor Peter Wood is the anthropologist and president of the National Association of Scholars . He is also the author of the invaluable Diversity: The Invention of a Concept . Professor Wood notes that congressional Democrats have added President ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Support Dartmouth United

In addition to Dartmouth's trustee elections, which I wrote about here and here , alumni are also electing the executive committee of the Association of Alumni. My friend Mike Murphy has assembled a fine slate which, this time around, is unencumbered ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

All about Natoma: A case study

Have more lies ever been told about a worse public policy than the Democrats' impending nationalization of health care? If so, I can't think of it offhand this morning. Obamacare won't improve the health care system. It isn't fiscally responsible ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

A perfect tournament for our times

The NCAA men's college basketball tournaments begins this week, the field of 65 teams having been selected and seeded yesterday. This year, the conventional wisdom holds that the quality of the at-large teams selected to make up the numbers is poor, ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]
First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

The soft bigotry of low expectations, blackboard jungle edition

As I noted here, the Obama administration's Department of Education has announced that it will crack down on "civil-rights infractions" in public schools, including alleged disparities in the disciplining of white and black students. The notion behind ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by Power Line]

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...John Culberson in which Holder testifed that Osama bin Laden and Charles Manson are comparable people, at least to the extent that they both have "the right to go before a jury [and] get the acts that [they are] charged with proven beyond a reasonable doubt." Holder went on to downplay the practical consequences of his position, telling Culberson: Let's deal with reality...
...was asked whether that means Usama bin Laden, if captured, would be tried in a civilian court and afforded the same rights as Charles Manson. "In some ways I think they're comparable people, in some ways" Holder said. More coverage of Holders' testimony is accessible here , but I haven't found a transcript of it...
...William Ruhlmann tells the rest of the story here . Earl Hines was Cole's original inspiration: "Everything I am I owe to that man, because I copied him." Like Louis Armstrong, Cole must have been a man of incredible inner strength to withstand the racial indignities of the era and convey nothing but ease...
..."The trouble comes," Professor Wood explains, "from the specter of federal control of American higher education." From Obama's perspective, that is a feature, not a glitch. To the rest of us, it should be an omen...

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These are the good old days, Part Two [Power Line - 1 hour ago]
A friend and occasional Power Line contributor writes: If [Obamacare] passes, the Dems will own every doctor complaint out there. Moreover, the complaints will ...
We're Gonna Win, Twins [Power Line - 2 hours ago]
Spring can't come too soon to the Upper Midwest. That's always true, of course, but especially this year, as the Minnesota Twins open their 2010 pennant drive in ...
Are our allies guilty by association? [Power Line - 2 hours ago]
We've written before about President Obama's willingness to follow only the second half of the Godfather's adage, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer." ...
Reality takes an unreal shape [Power Line - 3 hours ago]
In a post called But, as John noted in an update to the post, General McChrystal says it's the military's goal to capture bin Laden alive. And with good ...
The Current Tally [Power Line - 7 hours ago]
Byron York's sources say their best estimate is that there are now 204 votes for the government health care takeover bill, 209 votes against it, and 18 undecided. ...
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