12:00 AM, Jan 28, 2012 • By IRWIN M. STELZERIf you are one of the many who believes that uncertainty is stalling our recovery, you should be smiling.
Read more... 6:05 PM, Jan 27, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENCape Canaveral, Fla. At a rally in the warehouse of Astrotech Space Operations, Mitt Romney told an energized audience about the need to “define a mission” for the American space program. The Obama administration, he said, has failed to define such a mission.
“People are suffering because of that. We’ve lost technology because of that. People have lost jobs because of that. It’s time to have a mission for the space program for the United States of America,” Romney said, speaking just minutes away from the Kennedy Space Center.
Read more... It's not that our labor force isn't cheap enough. It's that government is too big. 5:12 PM, Jan 27, 2012 • By MARK HEMINGWAYBloomberg recently ran a great series on the challenges to expanding America's manufacturing sector that's worth reading in light of the president's State of the Union rhetoric on jobs. It opens with this distressing anecdote:
Read more... 1:23 PM, Jan 27, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONDuring last night’s debate, Mitt Romney responded to Newt Gingrich’s proposal that America establish a lunar colony by the end of the decade by saying that if someone presented him with that proposal, “I’d say, ‘You’re fired.’” While one might think Romney justified in firing someone who pitched Gingrich’s specific proposal, Romney gave the distinct impression that he also might have fired John F. Kennedy back in 1962.
Read more... 11:25 AM, Jan 27, 2012 • By VICTORINO MATUSThe question was, "We have many qualified, Hispanic leaders. Which of our Hispanic leaders would you consider to serve in your cabinet?" Santorum, by dint of his position on stage, got to speak first, picking the very obvious choice of up-and-coming Florida senator Marco Rubio. Gingrich came in second and it wouldn't have sufficed to say, "I agree." The former speaker hinted at Rubio as a future commander in chief and also mentioned New Mexico governor Susana Martinez and Florida congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. Poor Mitt Romney was third in line for questioning and knew he, too, had to top his rivals. His answer was lengthy but impressive:
Read more... 11:20 AM, Jan 27, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERJosh Rogin reports: “President Barack Obama is personally enamored with a recent essay written by neoconservative writer Bob Kagan, an advisor to Mitt Romney, in which Kagan argues that the idea the United States is in decline is false.”
We’re thrilled that the president is “enamored” by our long-time colleague and contributing editor, and trust it will spur sales of his fine new book, The World America Made.
Read more... 10:25 AM, Jan 27, 2012 • By THE SCRAPBOOKSeveral of our favorite journals showed up recently in The Scrapbook’s mailbox (no, The Scrapbook hasn’t fully converted to the digital era yet), and they seemed to be even more chock-a-block than usual with interesting articles.
Read more... 6:00 AM, Jan 27, 2012 • By JAY COSTIn his latest Bloomberg column, Ezra Klein pushes back on the GOP critique of the president. As far as he is concerned, the president is really a pragmatic center-leftist.
“President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial,” Mitt Romney says. But fear not, because the former governor of Massachusetts “will offer the American ideals of economic freedom a clear and unapologetic defense.”
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