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Daily Archives: September 18, 2012

Barack Obama in the Oval Office
Politics and Public Opinion, The Presidency

Former CIA director on the importance of in-person intelligence briefings

Marc Thiessen | September 18, 2012, 3:08 pm

Slate magazine claims to have shot down what it calls the “GOP myth” that “Obama makes the country more dangerous by ‘skipping’ more than half of his in-person daily intelligence briefings and reading them instead.” Their evidence? A brief comment from former … read more >

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Pethokoukis

Romney needs to keep talking about our fiscally and morally disastrous Entitlement Society

James Pethokoukis | September 18, 2012, 2:29 pm

Romney and Ryan are nuts if this latest kerfuffle stops them from talking about this (numbers courtesy of AEI’s Nick Eberstadt): 1. In 1960, U.S. government transfers to individuals totaled about $24 billion in current dollars, according to the Bureau … read more >

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Image Credit: Official U.S. Navy Imagery (Flickr) (CC BY 2.0)
Foreign and Defense Policy, Asia

Drifting toward war in Asia’s waters?

Michael Auslin | September 18, 2012, 1:55 pm

Even Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has implied the “w” word–war–in the context of rising Sino-Japanese tensions in the East China Sea. read more >

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White House Flickr stream
Foreign and Defense Policy

BREAKING: Obama attends his daily intelligence meeting 3 days in a row

Marc Thiessen | September 18, 2012, 11:56 am

After skipping his daily intelligence meeting for 8 days straight — both in the lead up to and immediately following the September 11 attacks on our diplomatic facilities in Egypt and Libya — it appears that last week’s criticism of … read more >

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Economics, Pethokoukis

From ‘You didn’t build that’ business to ‘You didn’t raise that’ child: Policy as pro-family as well as pro-entrepreneur

James Pethokoukis | September 18, 2012, 11:21 am

A Tax Policy Center paper from last year shed some light on which Americans don’t pay federal income tax — and why:  1. About half of people who don’t owe income tax are off the rolls not because they take … read more >

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Carpe Diem

New website archives every TV news program since 2009, and it’s now online and searchable for free

Mark J. Perry | September 18, 2012, 11:11 am

TVNewser is reporting today that: The Internet Archive wants to do to TV news what it did to the Web: make its history available free to everyone, and searchable to boot. The non-profit has launched a new service (check it … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Builder confidence index rises in September to a six-year high, with the largest 12-month gain in its history

Mark J. Perry | September 18, 2012, 10:45 am

From today’s report from the National Association of Home Builders: September 18, 2012 – Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose for a fifth consecutive month in September to a level of 40 on the National … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Quotation of the day: Fires are the environmentalist’s way of thinning U.S. forests

Mark J. Perry | September 18, 2012, 10:27 am

From Terry Anderson’s editorial in today’s WSJ “Environmental Protection Up in Smoke“: Environmental laws since the 1970s require public input into federal land-use decisions including logging on national forests. This has led to lawsuits challenging efforts by the U.S. Forest … read more >

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Carpe Diem

Housing affordability remains at historically high levels, providing support for the housing recovery

Mark J. Perry | September 18, 2012, 10:23 am

A recent analysis by Trulia concluded that buying a home today is 45% cheaper on average compared to renting a comparable home, see CD post here. That post generated a lively discussion and some questioned some of Trulia’s assumptions and … read more >

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Politics and Public Opinion, Elections

49 days: U.S. 2012 elections live

Tuesday, September 18
Henrik Temp | September 18, 2012, 9:17 am

News & analysis on Election 2012. Updated throughout the day. read more >

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