What I’m Reading — July 12th
Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from July 8th to July 12th.
Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from July 8th to July 12th.
Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from May 23rd to May 25th.
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Rich Lowry flags this as the “scariest passage” in President Obama’s address to the Congress (emphasis added):
As soon as I took office, I asked this Congress to send me a recovery plan by President’s Day that would put people back to work and put money in their pockets. Not because I believe in bigger government [...]
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In its editorial attacking Republican governors for not accepting certain strings-laden federal “stimulus” funds, the New York Times argues that rejecting these monies retards the march of progress: “But even if new taxes are required at some point, the new federal standards would protect more unemployed workers than ever before and bring states like Louisiana, [...]
It doesn’t much matter whether government actually delivers but rather whether it’s seen to deliver. The New Deal, for example, despite its repeated failures and cockamamie schemes, has nevertheless been judged a success by history.
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What happens when the House of Representatives and Senate pass slightly different versions of the same legislation? Any schoolkid can answer that: the House and the Senate send delegates to negotiate a compromise bill.
If only it actually worked that way. All too often, the negotiators don’t split the difference during the House-Senate conference, particularly when [...]