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Armstrong Williams
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Bureaucratic Incompetence Mon Apr 1Susan Stamper BrownSadly, bureaucracy is a time-honored tradition in the United States government, but perhaps no greater bureaucratic juggernaut exists today than the Veteran’s Administration (VA) run by the Obama Administration. ... more
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Guy Benson
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Political CalculationsThe data is so volatile right now that we're not able to accurately determine what the real trend in new jobless claims might be. ... more
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Washington, DCHe has sharp criticisms for the White House's handling of the Benghazi attacks. ... more
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Bob BarrDespite repeated, self-serving claims by Obama officials that the Administration did everything it could to head off and then respond appropriately to the violence against American facilities in Libya and Egypt last week, their blunders in policy, intelligence and security illustrates an incompetence every bit as profound as exhibited by the administration of Jimmy Carter in Iran 33 years ago. It appears nothing has been learned in more than three decades; despite significant gains in technology available to the U.S. government during those intervening years. ... more
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Crystal WrightMitt Romney is finally coming into his own as the indefatigable Republican nominee. After enduring endless rounds of verbal fist fights with his opponents, Romney proved organization, message and money matter when you run for President of the United States. ... more
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Wanted: A Competent Commander-In-Chief Tue May 1Frank GaffneySo, it turns out, Team Obama suddenly wants the 2012 presidential campaign to be about foreign policy, rather than the economy. Such a pivot might not be surprising given that, by President Obama's own test, he has not cut unemployment to the point where he deserves to be reelected. ... more
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And They Want To Run Health Care Mon Apr 30Bruce BialoskyMany people are ever suspicious of the private sector and fervently believe that government should control certain segments of our economy. This wishful (and delusional) thinking is most prevalent in the health care industry, where the left regrets not having passed a single-payer (government-controlled) system instead of ObamaCare. ... more
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John HawkinsWhether you've had some form of head trauma that has caused you to like Barack Obama or like all good hearted people, you can't stand him, his performance has objectively been terrible. Of course, we can debate WHY his performance has been so bad. His supporters would probably blame Bush, Republicans in Congress, ATM machines, fairy dust shortages and people forgetting to click their heels together three times before saying, "There's no place like home." ... more
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Townhall.com Staff
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Daniel J. MitchellWhy should we ever agree to more taxes when politicians and bureaucrats do such a rotten job with the money we’re already giving them? ... more
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Great Moments in Government Incompetence Sat Dec 3Daniel J. MitchellThere are several levels of jaw-dropping incompetence in this story, including the fact that the job at the Agriculture Ministry was offered to the wrong person and the supposed right person was recommended for a different job at the Infrastructure Ministry. ... more
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AP News
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AP News
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Occupy Wall Street Is Bitter, Unwieldy Brew Mon Oct 17Crystal WrightOccupy Wall Street is NO Tea Party! The masses of people collecting in New York City, across the country and world in the name of OWS look more like riots (reminiscent of the 1960s free love variety) than a movement. Participants in this “inchoate” movement as liberal and conservative media have described it, have trashed parks, attacked police, set cars ablaze and paraded around topless in the name of what? ... more
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AP News
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Professor Warren's Ire Wed Sep 28Jeff JacobyMEETING WITH VOTERS in an Andover living room last month, US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren vigorously challenged the idea that Obama Democrats are engaging in "class warfare" when they clamor for higher taxes on the wealthy. ... more
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Reuters News
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Cutting Through the Lone-Wolf Hype Fri Sep 23Stewart ScottThe lone-wolf threat is nothing new, but it has received a great deal of press coverage in recent months, and with that press coverage has come a certain degree of hype based on the threat’s mystique. However, when one looks closely at the history of solitary terrorists, it becomes apparent that there is a significant gap between lone-wolf theory and lone-wolf practice. An examination of this gap is very helpful in placing the lone-wolf threat in the proper context. ... more
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Donald LambroWhat if Barack Obama had begun his presidency by enacting a permanent tax cut that further lowered income tax rates, cut the capital gains rate in half and reduced business taxes across the board? ... more
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Derek HunterTone-deaf is one thing; incompetent is another. There’s a fine line between the two and they are often confused. If there was any doubt about which camp President Obama belongs to, it has been removed this month. ... more
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Email, Hate Mail and Comments from Readers Sun Sep 18John RansomLiberal strategist James Carville has suggested that Obama find someone to indict. Never mind whether the person is actually guilty of a crime. So the Mighty One has fallen a bit, but hasn’t fallen enough yet to take his place with the rest of us mere mortals bound by laws. ... more
