Adam Smith Institute
by Nikhil Arora
04/08/10
Barack Obama (the ‘Change We Can Believe In’ President) looks more like his disastrous predecessor every passing day. I am not talking about the bailouts to politically-connected cronies, ‘stimulus’ spending that doesn’t stimulate anything, or the futile throwing of money at an inefficient healthcare system. Rather, I am referring to something that Democrats and ‘proper liberals’ are supposed to agree on — the rule of law and the rejection of unconstitutional anti-terrorism policies. Specifically, I am talking about the use of targeted assassination as a policy priority...
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Handouts for lobbyists
Fox Business News
by John Stossel
04/08/10
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to get tough with lobbyists; ‘They will not work in my White House,’ he declared. ‘We’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs.’ But Obama’s stimulus plan has created jobs for those evil lobbyists. Tom Schatz of Citizens Against Government Waste writes that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is dishing out grants for lobbying groups that want to change how Americans live. States can’t wait to get their hands on the cash. … Well, Obama did say his stimulus plan would create jobs. To the carpenters, waitresses, plumbers and secretaries who thought he was talking about jobs for you, not lobbyists … welcome to Washington...
https://tinyurl.com/y8zmhlx
The real intern scandal: Privileges for the privileged
Christian Science Monitor
by Danielle Connor
04/08/10)
During this great recession, more and more students and young people are accepting unpaid internships because there simply aren’t paying gigs available. Some employers are taking advantage of this, deceiving young people and offering shallow experiences that won’t actually help them develop professional skills. Now the Obama administration wants to crack down on these abusive practices. … Such accountability is welcome, but there’s a deeper issue at stake: the way internships today privilege the privileged. In an environment where getting a good job requires a long stint as an unpaid intern, only those with substantial savings can get ahead. So rather than act as a leveler, this great recession may end up providing a further boost to the prep-school crowd...
https://tinyurl.com/y5vhgyg
Let’s get our own foreign policy house in order before criticizing others
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
04/07/10
On March 31, 2010, the New York Times wrote an editorial that briefly expressed horror in response to the Moscow subway terror bombings, then warned that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin might yet again use terrorist attacks to further consolidate his power, and finally lectured Russia that the only way to defeat such extremism was to deal with the underlying causes. Such a sermonizing editorial by any Russian publication after the 9/11 attacks would have engendered outrage in America. Yet the same conclusions and advice that the Times gave to Russia in the wake of its tragedy could equally be applied to post-9/11 U.S. policy...
https://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2764
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Drawing Back the Veil on the 'Death State'
By Chris Floyd
The Nobel Peace Laureate who is temporarily managing the Death State is now pushing hard for even more sanctions on the Iranians for the crime of ... developing a nuclear energy program as allowed by international treaty and inspected to a fare-thee-well by international observers.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25297.htm
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