Category Archives: National Review

Mitt’s Attack on Crony Capitalism

Tough stuff. The right stuff. By Larry Kudlow Let me build on Charles Krauthammer’s great Friday column, “The GOP’s Suicide March.” Krauthammer argues that just as President Obama’s class-warfare, soak-the-rich mantra started lagging in the polls, some Republicans on the campaign trail started making the case that Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital was involved in nothing [...]

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The Trouble With Ron Paul’s Defense

By Jonah Goldberg The New York Times has an interesting front page piece on Ron Paul’s relationship with the racists, anti-Semites and neo-Nazis in his coalition (sorry, but whatever you think of Lew Rockwell, Stormfront and David Duke certainly deserve such labels). His three defenses are: 1) He didn’t have direct knowledge of the really [...]

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More Obama Spending Won’t Do It. And stocks know it

  Larry Kudlow, NRO’s economics editor, is host of CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and author of the daily web log, Kudlow’s Money Politic$. EXTRACT ONLY:  ”What the economy needs, Mr. President, is a strong dose of new incentives, with pro-growth tax reform that flattens marginal rates and broadens the base for individuals and businesses. This [...]

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Rep. Sensenbrenner on EPA E15 Ethanol Waiver

National Review article ‘The EPA’s Ethanol Boondoggle’ by Rep. James Sensenbrenner is a Solid Principles Recommended Read (click image to open article in new tab/window) Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

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Five Truths about Planned Parenthood

CHARMAINE YOEST Anyone who believes PP is primarily concerned with the health of women and girls needs to look at the record. As the 2012 budget battles began, Clare Coleman, CEO of the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, took to the pages of the Washington Post. In a piece called “Five Myths about [...]

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Obama & Co., Growing Up Fast

By:  Victor Davis Hanson National Review Obama and his EU counterparts are learning that high-minded adolescence makes for bad governance. But it’s an expensive lesson. Old laws predicated on human nature cannot so easily be discarded — even by utopians who think they have the power to cool the planet and stop the rising seas. [...]

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Pence for President?

By:  Katrina Trinko NRO No one has gone straight from the House to the White House since James Garfield. Mike Pence might be the one. He hasn’t held executive office. He isn’t a paid Fox News contributor. He hasn’t written a best-seller or starred in a reality show. So is there any reason Rep. Mike [...]

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There’s No Avoiding ‘Repeal and Replace’

It’s essential for limited government. By: James Capretta   NRO Scores of House and Senate candidates are campaigning on a platform of reestablishing limited government. There could hardly be a more encouraging development for our republic. After decades of legislators’ piling countless new programs on top of old ones, and two years of the most intense [...]

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The Fired Congress

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE In December, more than a dozen senators will come back to Washington and decide how much more tax money to take from Americans, without being accountable to any of them. Some companies have a policy that once someone is fired, they aren’t allowed back on the premises out of fear they might [...]

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A Monumental Contest

With the primary season complete, the terms of battle are set — for the general election and for the next era in American politics. Barack Obama’s election in 2008 was said to constitute the next great wave of progressivism after FDR and LBJ. But a massive electoral backlash is brewing against his policies, all his [...]

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