In an interview with controversial Florida Pastor Terry Jones on Wednesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith doubted whether or not Muslim extremism was really a threat: “Would you regard radical Islam, then, as the enemy?” While Jones’ plan to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 has been rightfully condemned as offensive and an unnecessary provocation, Smith’s response of questioning the danger of Islamic radicalism all …
According to CNN , two American soldiers apparently fell on some bullets today in Iraq. I say “fell on some bullets” because it’s not possible that the bullets which killed them were shot out of a gun at them on purpose, because that would indicate they died in combat. And as we all know, combat in Iraq is over because Obama said so. As CNN clearly indicates in their story, …
The chief of NATO agrees with the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan: A radical Florida church really shouldn’t burn copies of the Koran. “I strongly condemn that. I think it’s a disrespectful action and in general I really urge people to respect other people’s faith and behave respectfully. I think such actions are in strong contradiction with all the values we stand for and fight for,” said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, according to The Cable . …
Many readers responded to my Sept. 3 “Magnification Effect” post . The argument I proposed was: George W. Bush’s second-tier (i.e. below cabinet rank) administrative appointments tended to favor people who were to the right of W himself. There were exceptions of course, but that was the tendency … Obama’s corresponding appointments have been to the left of Obama. Thus a lot of federal agencies have undergone a huge leftward swing, to the great delight of left-activist bureaucrats. I offered Byron York’s piece on Thomas Perez , the Ministry of Love’s…
RedState Morning Briefing For September 7, 2010 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. The Victim in Chief Makes a Pitch for Greater Socialism 2. Save the Light Bulb 3. Ovide Lamontagne Rising in New Hampshire 4. Congress Needs Reforms, but Committees Don’t Need More Power 5. Robert Reich: Economic Illiterate 6. “[F]ew observers believe the violence was due to racial hatred.” 7. Democrats argue it is fine to ban book promotion ———————————————————————- 1. The Victim in Chief Makes a Pitch for Greater Socialism Barack Obama went to Milwaukee, WI yesterday to speak to one of the…
There’s no better day than Labor Day to examine the nonsense that passes for high-minded economic policy proposals among the cognoscenti on the Left. To assist our examination is the erstwhile Secretary of Labor himself, the diminutive Robert Reich , who happens to be flogging a new book, “AFTERSHOCK: The Next Economy and America’s Future”, to be published in a couple of weeks. I can’t wait. The Real Lesson of Labor Day Face it: The national economy isn’t escaping the gravitational pull of the Great Recession. None of the standard booster rockets are working. …
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is defending President Barack Obama’s efforts to combat the recession and unemployment, saying his focus has been on helping the jobless and underemployed.
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Can you imagine what would happen to the economy if top wage earners were taxed at 70 to 90 percent? Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich can, and he thinks it’s a great idea. To be sure, many Americans were concerned that giving Democrats control of the executive and legislative branches of our government during an economic crisis could usher back in socialist tendencies first seen in this nation during the Depression. Fears of such a leftward shift sparked a new powerful movement called the Tea Party. With this in mind, Reich’s op-ed…
Can you imagine what would happen to the economy if top wage earners were taxed at 70 to 90 percent? Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich can, and he thinks it’s a great idea. To be sure, many Americans were concerned that giving Democrats control of the executive and legislative branches of our government during an economic crisis could usher back in socialist tendencies first seen in this nation during the Depression. Fears of such a leftward shift sparked a new powerful movement called the Tea Party. With this in mind, Reich’s op-ed “How to End the Great Recession” published in Friday’s New York Times validates these concerns: The rich spend a much smaller proportion of…
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Can you imagine what would happen to the economy if top wage earners were taxed at 70 to 90 percent? Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich can, and he thinks it’s a great idea. To be sure, many Americans were concerned that giving Democrats control of the executive and legislative branches of our government during an economic crisis could usher back in socialist tendencies first seen in this nation during the Depression. Fears …
