Bob McCarty Writes

Is there really much difference between what the Taliban is doing in Pakistan and what President Barack Obama and leaders of the Democrat-controlled Congress are doing in the United States?  Perhaps not.
During an almost-two-year campaign to bring Pakistan’s Swat Valley under Islamic law, Taliban militants have beheaded local officials, burned schools and banned education for [...]

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Though 30 newspapers around the globe today published President Barack Obama’s op-ed, “A time for global action,” no one should be surprised by the fact that newspapers in China and Russia did not.

The decision by Chinese and Russian leaders to opt out of publishing President Obama’s call — dubbed a “rare simultaneous op-ed” in a [...]

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As recently as two years ago, the prospect of being involved in what was expected to be the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the United States had financial planners, philanthropists, development officers and others licking their chops. Today, thanks to President Barack Obama, that excitement has waned as involuntary wealth transfer appears [...]

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Tragically, writes Betsy McCaughey in an opinion piece published by Bloomberg yesterday, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped into the so-called “economic stimulus package” without discussion.
And that opinion piece by McCaughey, former New York lieutenant governor and current adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, has the nation buzzing [...]

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UPDATE 2/10/09 at 11:55 a.m. Central: The U.S. Senate just passed the now-$838 billion “economic stimulus plan by a vote of 61-37. It now moves to a conference committee where members of both the House and Senate will iron out their differences over the bill before voting on it again and, presumably, forwarding it to [...]

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