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Washington Examiner
POLITICS

Some welcome signs of life from private sector
By: MICHAEL BARONE
Senior Political Analyst
July 25, 2010

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Grass somehow manages to grow up through small cracks in the sidewalk. Similarly, the American private sector somehow seems to be exerting itself despite the vast expansion of government by the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.

Case in point: The announcement last week by four oil companies -- Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell -- that they are setting up a $1 billion joint venture to design, build and operate a rapid-response system to contain offshore oil spills as deep as and deeper than BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster.



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Washington Examiner
OPINION

Toward a more honest discussion of race
Examiner Editorial
July 25, 2010

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Dismissing as racists Republicans, Tea Partiers and conservatives who disagree with the liberal agenda has become the default position for more than a few Democrats and their allies in the media, nonprofit activism communities, and the academic world. Such knee-jerk responses to honest criticism only magnify the ugliness that so quickly envelopes many of the racially tinged controversies that regularly erupt in American politics. These dark embroglios highlight the critical need for a more honest and -- dare we say it -- tolerant discussion of race in American politics.



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Washington Examiner
COLUMNS AND OPEDS

Michelle Malkin: Democrats waging war against the West
By: MICHELLE MALKIN
Examiner Columnist
July 25, 2010

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"Why do they hate us?" It's a burning question on the minds of border-dwelling taxpayers, small-business owners, farmers, and Rocky Mountain oil and gas industry workers suffering under punitive Democrat policies.

Eighteen months into the Obama administration, the war on the American West is in full swing.

The first battlefront: immigration. On Wednesday, Senate Democrats rejected a GOP amendment banning the use of federal funds to participate in any litigation against the new Arizona immigration enforcement law.

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Washington Examiner
COLUMNS AND OPEDS

Diana West: There are no secrets if everyone has a security clearance
By: DIANA WEST
Examiner Columnist
July 25, 2010

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A clarifying bomblet drops in the final paragraph of the opening installment of the big Washington Post series on what is best described as National Intelligence Sprawl:

"Soon, on the grounds of the former St. Elizabeths mental hospital in Anacostia, a $3.4 billion showcase of security will rise from the crumbling brick wards. The new headquarters will be the largest government complex built since the Pentagon. ..."

National security meets mental hospital: How tragically appropriate. And yes, these inmates will definitely be running the asylum -- some of the Post-estimated 854,000 Americans with top secret clearance now filling massive new government complexes all over the country -- another unwanted legacy of 9/11.



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Washington Examiner
COLUMNS AND OPEDS

Larry Kudlow: Fed can't solve every fiscal problem
By: LARRY KUDLOW
Examiner Columnist
July 25, 2010

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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke threw a curveball in his midterm report to Congress this week. The Fed view of the economy has been downgraded since it last reported in February. Although the official Fed forecast for 2010-11 is still 3 percent to 4 percent real growth, Bernanke sounded particularly gloomy when he characterized the economy as "unusually uncertain."

And he indicated that the majority view of the Fed Board of Governors and Reserve Bank presidents is that the risks to growth are "weighted to the downside."



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Boston Herald
Political shipwreck
Boat builders: John Kerry could have created jobs in U.S.


By Jessica Fargen
Sunday, July 25, 2010 - Updated 9 hours ago

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New England boat builders say shame on Sen. John Kerry for buying a $7 million New Zealand-built luxury yacht while local ship makers struggle to find work.

“Darn, that would have been a wonderful job for a Maine builder,” said Jane Wellehan, president of the trade group Maine Built Boats. “If someone comes to build a $7 million boat that would employ half the population of some towns for a year or two. Boat building is such a critical component of our coastal economy.”

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Boston Herald
Liveshot ‘swift-boated’ again!



By Howie Carr
Sunday, July 25, 2010 - Added 9 hours ago

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Forget “Isabel” - Liveshot Kerry should rename his $7 million sloop “The Botched Joke.”

You remember that was how he tried to explain away his nasty little dig at the military, back in 2006, saying that if kids don’t study hard, they’ll end up in Iraq. He said it was a botched joke. So I wonder how Liveshot is trying to explain this latest botched joke to his ancient gold-digging bride in her $9.2 million mansion on Brant Point in Nantucket.

Lovey, they’re swift-boating me again!

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Boston Herald Editorial
A new study in laziness

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Sunday, July 25, 2010 - Added 11 hours ago

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In closing the celebration of Harvard’s 300th anniversary in 1936, former Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell observed, “Institutions have rarely been killed while they were alive. They commit suicide, or die from lack of vigor, and the adversary comes and buries them.” Lowell thought Harvard would survive.

Harvard is starting to drink the hemlock. The heart of the university, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, no longer requires instructors to seek permission not to give a final examination. Instead it assumes they will not, and instructors must file notice in the first week of the term if they will set an examination.

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Boston Herald Editorial
Bloated intelligence

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Sunday, July 25, 2010 - Added 12 hours ago

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President Obama’s nominee to be director of national intelligence, retired Air Force Lt. Gen James R. Clapper Jr., airily dismissed The Washington Post’s detailed and revealing account of problems besetting the intelligence community at a Senate hearing on his nomination. For the nation’s sake we hope he’s a fast learner and knows how to change his mind, because the agencies he’s supposed to supervise, without real authority over them, seem crippled.

They are crippled by the explosion in size they have undergone since the 9/11 attacks, a growth that threatens to produce an endless spinning of wheels.

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NY POST
Lying nun begs on behalf of unholy rape clan
By BRAD HAMILTON, FRANK ROSARIO and AMBER SUTHERLAND
Last Updated: 6:58 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: 4:01 AM, July 25, 2010


EXCLUSIVE

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She's no angel!

For a decade, Sister Milindia has tugged on heartstrings in Little Italy. Wearing a cross, veil and nun's black habit, she approaches strangers and asks for donations, saying she's an Episcopal sister raising money for an orphanage and the homeless.

Saturday, July 17, was typical for her. She spent the day hustling along Mulberry Street's busy pedestrian plaza, ducking into Italian restaurants and thrusting her metal cup at shoppers, diners and passers-by.


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NY POST
Staten Island fire-slay 'sorry' in ma's hand
By JOHN DOYLE, MATTHEW NESTEL and JENNIFER FERMINO
Last Updated: 7:04 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: 2:13 AM, July 25, 2010

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The handwriting on the "am sorry" note found in the charred remains of a Staten Island murder-suicide appears to match that of the dead mother -- not the teen pyromaniac believed to be responsible for the fire and slaughter of his entire family, sources close to the investigation said.

Investigators compared the badly burned note to writings in Leisa Jones' journal, which was found at the scene, and believed they found a match, according to two sources.

But a high-level police source said authorities still could not say who wrote the note or killed the family, only that all signs were still pointing to the oldest son, C.J. Romoy, 14.


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NY POST EDITORIAL
Party for sale
Last Updated: 5:08 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: July 25, 2010

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If results counted for anything, lawmakers in Albany would be rushing to renew a 2002 law, which expires in June, that lets City Hall run the schools.

Last Monday, Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein presented yet another compelling result: This year, the number of schools deemed so bad they’re in danger of closing is the lowest . . . ever.

Just 20 city schools — of some 1,300 — are on the state’s list of “schools under registration review.”


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NY POST EDITORIAL
Conn. strikes back
Last Updated: 5:08 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: July 25, 2010

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Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell is going to war, it seems, in an effort to lure New York hedge funds to her state.
Who can blame her?

Albany, after all, attacked first — by moving to wrest millions in tax revenue from her state and New Jersey.
In the end, alas, New York might turn out to be the big loser.


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NY POST
The fix was in
JournoList e-mails reveal how the liberal media shaped the 2008 election
By JONATHAN STRONG
Last Updated: 5:08 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: 12:33 AM, July 25, 2010

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In 2007, when Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein founded JournoList, an online gathering place for several hundred liberal journalists, academics and political activists, he imagined a discussion group that would connect young writers to top sources.

But in the heat of a bitter presidential campaign in 2008, the list’s discussions veered into collusion and coordination at key political moments, documents revealed this week by The Daily Caller show.

In a key episode, JournoList members openly plotted to bury attention on then-candidate Barack Obama’s controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman, for instance, suggested an effective tactic to distract from the issue would be to pick one of Obama’s critics, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”


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NY POST
A legacy of budget trickery
Peter Orszag's sleight of hand
By PETER SUDERMAN
Last Updated: 5:08 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: 12:31 AM, July 25, 2010

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No more budget gimmicks? That’s what outgoing White House budget director Peter Orszag promised as the Obama team prepared to take control of the White House. “The president prefers to tell the truth, rather than make the numbers look better by pretending,” he told The New York Times.

But numbers games turned out to be Orszag’s specialty. He’s set to step down at the end of July, but for the last 18 months, he’s presided over a wave of fiscal trickery.

This year’s White House budget, which Orszag played a key role in preparing, is a prime example.


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NY POST
Who can capture the Tea Party vote?
Carl Paladino wants it for the governor's race, but the movement is divided
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
Last Updated: 5:08 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: 12:27 AM, July 25, 2010

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It’s called a party though it’s not a party, though even that depends whom you ask. It’s not in the business of endorsing candidates except when it is, and has no interest in the establishment even though one member is running for governor.

Welcome to New York’s Tea Party movement. What began in early 2009 as a series of protests against the Obama administration’s stimulus plan and health-care legislation has grown into a bona fide political force that has asserted itself into state and local politics. (There are over 100 groups in New York state alone, although membership ranges from the thousands to, literally, parties of one.)


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NY POST
Why more Jedi don't rob banks
Despite Darth Vader, heists are declining in New York
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
Last Updated: 5:08 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: 7:48 PM, July 24, 2010

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First there was the bouquet bandit, who walked into the Bank of Smithtown in Chelsea clutching some fresh flowers and a note, “Give me your fifties, hundreds.” He was nipped in the bud on Wednesday. A day later, Darth Vader strolled into a Long Island branch of Chase with the Force of a semiautomatic gun. The Sith Lord is a still at large.

Bank robberies haven’t been this hot since Bonnie and Clyde.

Or so it would seem. But law-enforcement experts say that, these flamboyant two aside, there are few John Dillingers or Willie Suttons to be found in New York.


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NY POST
Few takers for city job tests
By REUVEN BLAU
Last Updated: 5:08 AM, July 25, 2010
Posted: 12:30 AM, July 25, 2010

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Maybe some people just don’t want to work.

The number of people taking tests that could lead to city jobs is plummeting like the Dow Jones index.

The number has decreased by 52%, to 73,712 in the fiscal year that ended June 30, from 141,407 takers the year before.

The city maintains the drop-off last year was due to the fact that fewer entry-level tests that usually draw thousands of applicants and more technical exams that attract fewer applicants were given, while the year before it was the opposite case. “Its not the volume but the mix,” said Mark Daly, spokesman for the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. The city offered two of its most popular clerical entry-level hiring tests that have minimal job requirements the previous year.


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Pajamas Media
It’s the Uncertainty, Stupid
Big Ben Bernanke publicly acknowledges what so many of us have known for over two years.
July 25, 2010 - by Tom Blumer

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In testimony before Congress last Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sounded as downbeat as someone in his position is probably allowed to be. That’s not surprising. The economy is not performing at as it should at this stage of a “recovery.”

The most visible reason why Ben is a borderline bear is because the Obama administration attempted to turn things around with an FDR-like “stimulus” instead of what has historically worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations when tried: tax cuts, tax simplification, and regulatory reform.