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Thursday, May 23, 2013

The polls this week: Obamacare, the sequester, and immigration

Karlyn Bowman and Andrew Rugg | May 3, 2013, 8:46 am

Support for Obamacare reaches a new low, a majority of Americans are confused by the sequester, and support for a path to citizenship declines. read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Defense

Fiddling while the Pentagon burns

Gary Schmitt | March 29, 2013, 10:14 am

Much has been made of the fact that the new spending bill passed by Congress this past month has given the Defense Department both $10 billion additional dollars to help alleviate the shortfalls in its operations and maintenance accounts and … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Defense

Why these Pentagon cuts must be different

Charles Morrison | March 19, 2013, 2:31 pm

Editor’s Note: To attend AEI’s event on the defense drawdown on Thursday (3/21), please RSVP here. Despite over 18 months of assurances that sequestration was too devastating to go into effect, the Pentagon is now implementing nearly $500 billion in … read more >

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Economics, Taxes and Spending

The president who cried ‘Sequester!’

Marc Thiessen | March 4, 2013, 2:27 pm

The sequester is only four days old and it has already done untold damage — not to teachers, air traffic controllers, or the military, mind you, but to President Obama’s credibility. Obama has been caught in one misstatement after another … read more >

Pethokoukis

9 reasons why fears about sequestration are overblown

James Pethokoukis | March 4, 2013, 11:45 am

Will sequestration really take a roughly 0.6 percentage point bite out of the US economy this year? That’s what the models of the Congressional Budget Office and many private forecasters are saying. But JPMorgan economist Jim Glassman says those models … read more >

Pethokoukis, Economics, Taxes and Spending

Here’s how the private sector deals with sequestration

James Pethokoukis | March 1, 2013, 9:07 am

David Blom is the CEO of OhioHealth, a Columbus, Ohio, based not-for-profit health care system that includes 18 hospitals. Because the 2% sequestration cuts to Medicare providers, OhioHealth will lose $12 million in revenue this year from Uncle Sam. In an … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Defense

Lipstick on the pig

Tom Donnelly | February 27, 2013, 2:51 pm

Let’s face it: President Obama has performed a masterful jiu-jitsu move on the Republican Party, turning the Tea Party’s smaller-government energy of 2010 into a force that’s served to both expand and more deeply entrench entitlement programs while achieving a … read more >

Foreign and Defense Policy, Defense

The State of the Union, Obama style

Danielle Pletka | February 12, 2013, 3:19 pm

The press is reporting that tonight’s State of the Union will be light on defense and national security. Shocking. Indeed, the president is likely to spare little breath for previous commitments to extend free trade, prioritize victory in Afghanistan, roll … read more >

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Foreign and Defense Policy, Defense

What just happened?

Tom Donnelly | February 11, 2013, 12:41 pm

The announcement from the Defense Department that “budgetary uncertainty” would delay the deployment of the carrier USS Truman and the destroyer USS Gettysburg to the Middle East seems to have woken Washington (if not Wall Street) at last to the realization … read more >