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  • U.S. consumer spending retreats after clunkers
    U.S. consumer spending fell sharply in September after the government’s cash-for-clunkers program ended.
    Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know this was going to happen. None of the “economic stimulus” programs Obama has pushed will do any long-term good.
  • Health bill: 42 studies, 214 mentions of taxes
    House Democrats‘ health care bill runs to 1,990 pages, costs $1.06 trillion, covers 96 percent of eligible Americans and demands the production of 42 studies on everything from whether post-partum screening should be required to using student loan programs to help recruit doctors.
  • Denying physics won’t save the video stars
    Peter Mandelson’s proposal to disconnect the families of internet users who have been accused of file sharing will do great violence to British justice without delivering any reduction in copyright infringement. We’ve had 15 years of dotty entertainment industry proposals designed to make computers worse at copying. It’s time that we stopped listening to big content and started listening to reason.

  • Can Republicans Pander Their Way Into Leadership?
    The 2010 mid-term congressional races could easily become a rout of the left, with heartland America energized and active as it has not been in nearly two decades. According to current trends and polling data, next year’s races are nearly guaranteed to go decidedly to the right. Unfortunately, the Republican Party has opted to soften its stances and pursue a strategy of “inclusiveness,” which in reality represents a shift to the left.
  • Funds for D.C. wildfires rebuked, then restored
    Congressional lawmakers Wednesday rebuked the Forest Service for spending stimulus forest firefighting money on D.C. green-jobs programs, but gave the city the money anyway. The decision reverses a vote of the full Senate, which last month stripped the $2.8 million in wildland fire-management funds for the District, calling it a waste of critical firefighting funds.
    How dumb is this, there are not forests in Washington D.C.!
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