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New economy: Banking is Us

Lending money,

By William Collins , November 20, 2009

Federal stimulus equals deception

It seems the president has a new trick up his sleeve to convince us his bloated “stimulus” packages are solving our economic woes: deception.

By Mike Reagan , November 20, 2009

No more tax money for new hog farms

The Campaign for Family Farms and the Environment delivered a petition with more than 25,000 signatures from individuals around the country to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Oct. 20. It demanded that the agency immediately suspend the practice of providing guaranteed and direct loans for new and expanded specialized hog and poultry facilities. More than three weeks have passed without a response.

By Frank Jones, Paul Sobocinskiand Ron Perry , November 19, 2009

Going hungry in America

The number of American households who couldn’t adequately sustain food for their family rose from 13 million in 2007 to 17 million households in 2008, according to a new report by the Food and Drug Admin-istration. The jump represents the highest number since the FDA started keeping track in 1995.

By Martha Carr , November 19, 2009

The problem with our health care debate

Everyone seems to have a different take on how to solve America’s health are problem. But notice that every solution offered involves some elaborate new system of government controls. Different proposals include a “public option,” mandatory insurance for individuals, government-supported health-care exchanges, government-sponsored “efficacy research,” government-supported co-ops, and as many other ways of dictating consumer and producer behavior as can fit in a 1,000-page bill.

By Alex Epstein , November 18, 2009

More troops in Afghanistan won’t do it

For the past two months, President Barack Obama has been weighing Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request to send an additional 40,000 troops to Afghanistan to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” al-Qaeda. That same effort, according to Obama, entails ensuring that the Taliban can’t regain control of the country.

By Chris Toensing , November 18, 2009

Berlin Wall: Lost message,lost opportunity

This past week I have been in Europe to help commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I went into this trip with a great deal of enthusiasm and an expectation that the heroes responsible for that momentous event be justly recognized. Sadly, I was instead reminded of how much we have willingly forgotten.

By Mike Reagan , November 15, 2009

The need to improve food safety

Shirley Almer’s family ex-pected her home for Christ-mas last year. The strong-spirited 72-year-old grandmother from Perham had survived two bouts of cancer and was recover---ing from an infection with a brief stay in a nursing home.

By Amy Klobuchar , November 15, 2009

Early on, television ruins kids

The war in Afghanistan isn’t going well. The economic recovery isn’t producing many new jobs. The banks that pushed the nation to the brink of a 1930s-style Depression with their reck-less ways — having sucked up billions of taxpayer dollars in rescue money — are resum-ing those reckless ways. There isn’t enough swine flu vaccine to go around.

By Donald Kaul , November 14, 2009

Will Reid work to reconcile to get health care bill passed?

Voters are shouting at Democrats to head back toward the political center, but they keep plunging on left — to the point where I wouldn’t put it past Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) to blow up the Senate in order to pass a health care reform bill.

By Morton Kondracke , November 14, 2009

Curbing a constitutional crisis

These are the times that try conservatives’ souls.

By Edwin Feulner , November 13, 2009

Retooling for a modern transportation infrastructure

In the 20th century the development of new infrastructure helped turn the United States into the greatest superpower the world has ever seen. Electrifying rural America, providing phone service, the Interstate Highway System, airports for the jet age, even opening the Great Lakes to the oceans of the globe with the St. Lawrence Seaway gave our society mobility for people and products, as well as the ability instantly communicate across vast distances.

By By Jim Oberstarand Rick King , November 13, 2009