Sacrosanct tax breaks, including deductions on mortgage interest, remain on the table just weeks before the deficit commission issues recommendations on policies to pare back with the aim of balancing the budget by 2015. The tax benefits are hugely popular with the public but they have drawn the panel’s focus, in part because the White […]
As the once-heralded Summer of Recovery yields to a Fall of Failure, there is a tide in the affairs of America which, if taken at the flood, could lead to a reversal of misfortune brought to us by a socialist-ideologue president, a tragic-comedian vice president, and a majority leadership team in Congress who are master […]
The federal bailout for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could nearly double in size during the next three years, according to projections from the companies’ federal regulator. Fannie and Freddie, the federally controlled mortgage finance giants, will need as much as $215 billion more from taxpayers in the next three years to meet their financial […]
Media Matters, the liberal activist group that wages a rhetorical war against Fox News Channel and others in the conservative press, will announce on Wednesday the receipt of a $1 million donation from the philanthropist George Soros. For years, conservatives have accused Media Matters of being a front organization for Mr. Soros. In May, Mr. […]
For those who thought the Democrats couldn’t fare worse — you might want to sit down.Republicans have a 50% to 43% advantage among likely voters — widening the lead for the GOP from three to seven percentage points from just a month ago, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. via GOP widens […]
After a series of ineffective public messages — leaving the political landscape dotted with dry rhetorical wells — President Obama has hit upon a closing argument. “Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now,” he recently told a group of Democratic donors in Massachusetts, “and facts and science and argument [do] […]
Emily Rooney moderated a debate between Barney Frank and Sean Bielat on October 14th. Rooney starts by noting that Bielat has come from outside of politics to be a surprisingly strong challenge to Frank. As usual, Frank does most of the talking. Bielat has been learning how to get Frank to hang himself, and at […]
Have you noticed how, both here and in Western Europe, Canada and elsewhere in the Anglosphere, liberals, progressives and the Far Left no longer want to debate? They just want conservatives to shut up. And so do the Islamists.Mere silence will do. What an odd alliance. If the Islamists ever took power in the West, […]
Obama said Americans’ “fear and frustration” is to blame for an intense midterm election cycle that threatens to derail the Democratic agenda. “Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired […]
For the second year in a row the Obama Administration pushed the national deficit above the Trillion dollar mark, further proof that Obamanomics are a complete failure. Preliminary figures from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show that Washington ran a $1.291 trillion deficit in 2010, just slightly less than last year’s $1.416 trillion. To put […]
The Conservatives' Journal 
October 25, 2010
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