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"We will continue to keep you up-to-date as best as we can on what goes on, knowing quite honestly that some things in foreign policy have to be done away from TV cameras."
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain: move along folks, nothing to see here.
Richard Norton Smith and former Reagan Political Director, Bill Lacy, as they reminisce about Ronald Reagan, our 40th president as his 100th birthday approaches.
Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian and first permanent director of the Dole Institute, will discuss during the series his four presidential picks from the last century to place on Mt. Rushmore.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota has an interesting interactive web page that allows readers to compare economic downturns and recoveries, both on the basis of output and employment.
The results are remarkable. Reagan focused on reducing the burden of government and the economy responded. "BushObama" tried the opposite approach, but spending, bailouts, and intervention have not worked.
The first chart shows economic output.
The employment chart provides an equally stark comparison. If anything, this second chart is even more revealing since employment has not bounced back from the trough. But that shouldn’t be too surprising. The federal government is subsidizing unemployment and penalizing production. And we already know the so-called stimulus has been a flop.
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In Obama's view, the United States is a neo-colonial power occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, D'Souza says. "He sees the Muslims fighting against America as freedom fighters. This gives him a somewhat romanticized view of Islamic radicals."
As a result, Obama may not view the Muslim Brotherhood as a problem.
In his eyes, they may be "good guys trying to liberate Egypt from this horrible dictator Mubarak, supported by us, the rogue nation," D'Souza says.
"So Obama might encourage the democracy movement, not because he's an idealist about democracy, but because he might approve of the overthrow of a pro-American dictator and a reduced footprint for America in that region."�
Obama's Muslim Brotherhood Links Deserve Second Look 11 Jun 2009
Of course, those moderate voices who would hope for democratic reform will be disappointed; they are now on record as opposing the Muslim Brotherhood.
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A tax on toilet paper; I kid you not. According to the sponsor, "the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act will be financed broadly by small fees on such things as . . . products disposed of in waste water." Congress wants to tax what you do in the privacy of your bathroom.