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Signs of Bizarro World: Using terms like “perverse” and “disingenuous,” Uber-liberal journalist Robert Scheer defends — yes defends — the economic record of Ronald Reagan against accusations from NYT’s uber-liberal Paul Krugman that the former president is most to blame for the credit crisis and mortgage meltdown: It is disingenuous to ignore the fact that [...]

Michael Franc finds that the so-called fiscally moderate “Blue Dog” Democrats aren’t so fiscally conservative: To determine whether each Blue Dog had voted in a fiscally conservative manner, I looked at whether they voted against Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.), the poster child for the views and policy instincts of today’s House Left. Frank missed [...]

Sure it’s sickening that AIG officials such as AIG CEO Charles Liddy are getting bonus money, but perhaps not for the reason you’d think. First thing to note: these weren’t performance bonuses, but retention bonuses. That’s a whole different ball game, based on promises made long before anyone knew the terms TARP or bailout, and [...]

51 days in office and President Obama has already broken his promise on earmarks, under the guise of “but this time it’s an emergency.” Mind you, earmarks were all the rage while Mr. Obama was running for president. It appears the one wearing the presidential pants is Nancy Pelosi. WASHINGTON – Calling it an “imperfect” [...]

A few days ago I titled a post Obama’s War on Small Business. It just is what it is, bad economics. Here’s input from CNBC’s Larry Kudlow: He [President Obama] is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds. That is the meaning of his anti-growth tax-hike proposals, which [...]