Opinion
The Life of Julia, or life without aspiration
The right-wing blogosphere has been having a fine time with the The Life of Julia, the Obama campaigns attempt to show, through a series of USA Today-style illustrations, how the policies of President Obama come to the aid of women at every important moment in their lives.
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Even on Wall Street, cluelessness isnt a crime
May 5, 5:23 PMMost Americans still carry the sour feeling that those responsible for the panic of 2008 are still walking free. Yet that feeling is a bit misplaced. It leaves out the much more significant government role.
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Romney has a chance, but he must make the sale
Apr 14, 6:24 PMMitt Romney wouldnt be the ideal presidential candidate in any Republican scenario. Yet this flawed candidate has a real chance, as a closer look at last week's ABC/Washington Post poll will illustrate. If Romney can keep the focus on Barack Obamas record and offer a clearly articulated economic and fiscal program, he has a very good chance of unseating this president.
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Supreme Court should give Congress a do-over on health care reform
Apr 7, 5:47 PMObamacare seems a dead end, entitlement liberalisms bridge too far a flawed attempt to impose central planning on an enormously complicated economic sector. If its not invalidated by the court or repealed by Congress, the law will collapse of its own weight, brought down by its exorbitant cost and persistent unpopularity. Heres hoping the Supreme Court lets Congress have a do-over.
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Let the wind-power tax credit expire
Mar 24, 5:51 PMLike a sick patient dependent on perpetual transfusions, wind power is never likely to become competitive especially in an era of falling natural gas prices. Gas is a much more cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to produce electricity.
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In Afghanistan, its time to cut our losses
Mar 17, 4:46 PMAfter so many years with so little progress, the point of diminishing returns is an apt description of where we stand today, especially after the disastrous events of recent weeks.
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If they can do this, what can they not do?
Mar 10, 5:40 PMThe White House has needlessly bought itself a great deal of trouble and a likely Supreme Court caseover insurance coverage for birth control. As with so much that this administration has done, the latest debate again prompts the question: If they can do this, what can they not do?
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This plan is a ‘reverse enterprise zone’
Mar 3, 12:02 AMOne of the ideas promoted by the late Jack Kemp was the enterprise zone: Draw a boundary around a declining part of a city and cut the taxes. Within the zone, you would improve your chances of drawing in more investment, people and jobs.
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Santorum takes his turn as the non-Romney
Feb 25, 8:52 PMLast week, The Stars Editorial Board was visited by economist Art Laffer yes, he of the famous Laffer curve. Most of the meeting dealt with topics other than national politics, but toward the end I asked him whether he thought President Barack Obama would be re-elected.
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Payroll tax break shows the need for real reform of Social Security
Feb 4, 6:14 PMGood politics what helps get you elected is frequently bad policy. The latest example is the payroll tax holiday, which will expire in about three weeks unless Congress acts.
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An absurd charade on corporate taxes
Jan 28, 5:43 PMThis president hasnt the slightest notion of what makes an economy go, how real wealth is created or what motivates people to risk scarce capital on an uncertain future, as the saying goes. And he may be the only person in the country who doesnt believe the U.S. tax code is already complicated enough.
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Independence breaks out of the ATA straitjacket
Jan 21, 7:06 PMFacing a sluggish economy and declining public resources, the the Kansas City Area Transportation Authoritys options are few. Voters and elected officials wont pay indefinitely for an uncompetitive public-sector monopoly with an ossified labor contract. Like Independence, they will seek another way.
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Unmoored Republicans, bashing capitalism
Jan 14, 7:13 PMThe symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant, and in popular lore, the elephant never forgets. But this year, some key GOP figures forgot things they were supposed to know.
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The political party that cant make up its mind
Jan 7, 6:01 PMIn the 2012 race for the Republican nomination, none of the GOP candidates for president has managed Ronald Reagans signature political feat: uniting social conservatives and economic conservatives.
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Why the mayors school plan is a non-starter
Dec 31, 7:34 PMThe more I think about Mayor Sly James plan to seek control of Kansas City schools, the less sense it makes.
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Obama is denigrating what he should encourage
Dec 17, 5:53 PMSo President Barack Obama will rest his re-election hopes on class warfare. After his speech last week in Osawatomie, Kan., no other conclusion is possible. The astonishing message: Achieving success and wealth in the United States is vaguely disreputable.
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Will Republicans roll the dice on Gingrich?
Dec 10, 12:34 AMNewt Gingrich’s presidential bid seemed improbable from the beginning, and in the early weeks he did his best to make it more so. One of his first decisions was to take some time off for a vacation cruise. Then he popped up on “Meet the Press” to bash the House GOP’s Medicare reform as “right-wing social engineering.”
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How long will the bond market play nice?
Dec 3, 6:04 PMWashington has laid down a bet that the market will continue to gobble up Treasuries at low rates for an entire year. If we lose the gamble, our slow-motion fiscal train wreck will start feeding on itself as interest rates rise. Mix high yields into the pile of debt we already have and the governments credit card payments will truly balloon.
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Bright spots aside, uncertainty still reigns over U.S. economy
Nov 26, 7:15 PMBusinesses adopt a cautious stance when they are uncertain about taxes, health care costs and regulatory initiatives. That may seem obvious, but the message hasnt gotten through to the Obama administration. Unfortunately for the economy, the uncertainty fog isnt likely to lift until after next years election.
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The conservative anguish over Mitt Romney
Nov 11, 11:56 PMAfter last week’s debate, some are calling Mitt Romney the “presumptive nominee.” Indeed, despite momentary uneasiness when a questioner brought up the personal mandate in his Massachusetts health plan, he held his own — as he has in earlier debates.
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The sorry record of environmental alarmists
Nov 5, 9:42 PMAt any given moment, were teetering on the edge of doom. Yet in spite of one catastrophe after another, here we are the planets most adaptable species, the only one capable of raising its standard of living.
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The Keystone pipeline: A wedge splitting Obamas base
Oct 29, 9:30 PMA huge fissure is opening between two critical groups at the core of President Barack Obamas base organized labor and environmentalists. The wedge dividing them is the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that would carry up to 900,000 barrels of oil a day from Canadian tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
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Occupiers are here in KC, but theyre not sure why
Oct 15, 10:54 PMSpontaneous movements can reshape themselves in unexpected ways, but from what I saw in Kansas Citys Penn Valley Park, its unlikely that the the Occupy Wall Street movement can morph into the tea party of the left.
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Medicares rigid rules stifle innovation
Oct 8, 10:32 PMPeople who cry, Keep your hands off my Medicare, may well succeed in blocking real reform. But that will only increase the risk that when their time comes to access the program, they cant get access to a doctor.
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Is President Obama to the left of Deng Xiaoping?
Sep 24, 10:02 PMYoull never unlock that capital by waging war on the wealthy. Deng Xiaoping was right. The way to build up the wealth of the nation is to encourage more people to get rich. Instead, we have a president eager to bash those who happen to succeed.
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Defense cuts and the Achilles heel of U.S. power
Aug 27, 9:03 PMThe aggressive behavior of China and Iran is especially worrisome given the prospect of severe U.S. defense cuts. In this summers debt-ceiling deal, Congress agreed to initial spending trims, then gave a 12-member, bipartisan supercommittee the job of finding $1.5 trillion more.
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We are better off when risk is richly rewarded
Aug 20, 10:30 PMThis notion keeps coming back lower the tax rate and broaden the base of taxpayers and encourage more growth. Everyone understands the logic and the need. Everyone, apparently, except the man in the White House.
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Obamas underlying problem may be insoluble
Aug 14, 12:51 AMWithin the last two weeks, the country seems to have reached a tipping point a moment when the doubts about President Obama crystallized in the minds of many more voters than those inclined to root for Republicans. This president has begun to lose his base.
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The Satan sandwich we all face if we do nothing
Aug 6, 10:29 PMThe argument today isnt about whether to maintain a safety net; that was settled long ago. At issue is what to do about the reality that the government is promising grossly more than we can afford to deliver.
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Obama has blown another chance to seize the center
Jul 30, 10:13 PMOne of the most striking aspects of the debt-ceiling debate has been the lengths to which Democrats have gone to deny the need for change in our entitlement programs. Many refuse to accept that without reform of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, our fiscal situation cannot be stabilized.
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