Drilldown: Opinions

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• $646,214 Per Government Job
• $825B, keep the change

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• 'Historic' Stimulus Is Egregious Waste
• 'Stimulus' Follies: Pelosi's Poison
• 'We wrote the bill'

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• 5 Points on the Critical State of the Economy

A

• A 40-Year Wish List
• A Conflict Hamas Caused
• A dangerous gamble in Gaza
• A Fiscal Gamble
• A large stimulus bill for large problems
• A looming fiasco?
• A Passing Victory
• A rotten 'reform'
• About That Financial Reform 'Victory'
• Amid the horror and doom of Gaza, the IRA precedent offers hope
• An $800 Billion Mistake
• An Endgame for Israel
• An overoptimistic stimulus plan
• An Unnecessary War

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• ‘Breaking the Will of the Palestinians’

B

• Bad medicine: Stimulus bill is sickening
• Bad politics and urgent remedies
• Bang for the Bucks
• Broker a Gaza cease-fire now

C

• Change for the worse
• Chris Dodd's carve-outs for cronies
• Cleaner and Faster
• Congress Passes Financial Reform

D

• Damned if they do
• Defining Victory for Israel
• Democratic Stealth Care
• Diplomacy must include Hamas
• Disappearing Jobs
• Divided on Gaza
• Dodd's financial-salvage mission
• Don't Believe the Stimulus Scaremongers
• Don't Stop Until Hamas is Destroyed

E

• Eliminate Hamas
• Empty 'stimulus'
• Endgame in Gaza
• Escalation in Gaza
• Exactly How Does Stimulus Work?

F

• Facing Reality
• Financial 'Reform' or Revenge?
• For real stimulus, fix infrastructure
• From her lips to God's ear: The fury of a bereaved Palestinian mother captures evil of Hamas in Gaza

G

• Gaza after a Hamas rout will be an even greater threat to Israel
• Gaza is more than a simplistic morality play
• Gazans need to choose peace over extremism
• Getting Tough in Washington
• GOP greets stimulus bill with ‘audacity of nope’
• Government spending can create jobs

H

• Hamas Fantasy Rules
• Hamas is a Taliban State
• Hamas is the obstacle to Middle East peace
• Hamas Knows One Big Thing
• Hamas rockets block the birth of a Palestinian state
• Hamas speaks
• Hamas' dead baby strategy
• Hamas' war crimes
• Hamas' zero-sum game
• Hard Lesson for Israel
• Hard Truths About the Conflict
• Has Israel learned its lesson?

• Has Israel Revived Hamas?
• Has Israel's response exceeded its right to defend itself?
• Herbert Hoover Lives
• How About a Payroll Tax Stimulus?
• How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe
• How the U.N. Perpetuates the 'Refugee' Problem
• How to Avoid a 'Bailout Bill'
• How to save Wall Street

I

• Imperfect stimulus plan is still the best answer
• In Defense of Waste
• Incursion Into Gaza
• Israel acts because the world won't defend it
• Israel and the west will pay a price for Gaza's bloodbath
• Israel can't bomb its way to peace
• Israel has plenty of tactics for war, but none for peace
• Israel in Gaza: Three Wrong Arguments
• Israel Is Committing War Crimes
• Israel must fight Hamas to open a path to peace
• Israel must withdraw from Gaza
• Israel's friends cannot justify this slaughter
• Israel's Gaza Defense
• Israel's Gaza Surge
• Israel's inalienable right
• Israel's just goal: reasonable cease-fire
• Israel's Mistake
• Israel's Obligation
• Israel's onslaught on Gaza is a crime that cannot succeed
• Israel's Policy Is Perfectly 'Proportionate'
• Israel, Stop! Just. Stop.
• Israel’s self-defeating Gaza offensive
• Israel’s tactics in Gaza invite Palestinian backlash
• It breaks my heart to see Israel's stupidity
• It's a War Process
• It's time once more to blame the Jews

J

• Jobs, now

K

• Keynes can't help us now

L

• Look at the Time

M

• Making Financial Reform Fool-Resistant
• Militant Islam Threatens Us All
• Money for nothing won't grow the economy
• Moral Clarity in Gaza

N

• Neoconservatism dies in Gaza
• No way forward while the Hamas hydra lives
• No, we are not all Hamas now
• Not all stimulus ideas are created equal

O

• Obama Fiddles While Gaza Burns
• Obama mythology could use some stimulus
• Obama’s new deal is the same old blunder
• Olmert's Final Failure
• On the dole again
• On the Edge
• Once the Stimulus Kicks In, the Real Fight Begins
• Only the end of Hamas can bring peace to Gaza

P

• Palestinians Need Israel to Win
• Pass the stimulus: Republicans oppose needed aid at their peril
• Politics of payoff
• Pressure for cease-fire must intensify

R

• Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
• Real Stimulus Wouldn't Empty Wallets
• Rockets from Gaza have exhausted Israel's patience
• Roll Over the Republicans

S

• Shift the blame to Hamas
• Silence the guns in Gaza
• Slice the pork from stimulus program
• Sorry, O: 'I Won' Won't Cover This

• Stimulated right into being another Europe
• Stimulating Times
• Stimulus bill: On the whole, it makes sense
• Stimulus? Yes, some
• Stop the spending sprees
• Stopping the rockets a necessity

T

• Take Charge
• Tax-Cut Stimulus
• The Action Americans Need
• The assault on Gaza offers the best hope of peace
• The Bailout Tax
• The Battle of Gaza
• The Case against the Dodd Bill
• The Demons of Gaza
• The Dodd Bill: Bailouts Forever
• The Dodd-Frank Financial Fiasco
• The End of Community Banking
• The Entitlement Stimulus
• The Fierce Urgency of Pork
• The financial services 'reform' mess
• The Fiscal Stimulus Will Pay For Itself
• The Gaza calamities
• The Gaza rules
• The illusion of victory
• The Israel rules
• The Jews Face a Double Standard
• The Lies of Gaza
• The nation needs jobs, not a political agenda
• The New Era of Irresponsibility
• The No-State Solution
• The peace has been lost to Israel’s military victories
• The Republicans' Fatal Misreading of FDR -- and How It Would Worsen The Depression
• The Right Stimulus
• The Same Old Song
• The Stimulus Advances
• The Stimulus Package Is More Debt We Don't Need
• The Stimulus Tragedy
• The suffering that Hamas causes
• The true story behind this war is not the one Israel is telling
• The US needs its stimulus now
• There wouldn't have been Gaza rockets without the blockade
• Thirty Years Later, a Return to Stagflation
• Too Big Not to Get Right
• Too Little Bang for The Bucks
• Too little in return for stimulus plan
• Triumph of the Regulators

U

• U.S. role in Mideast turmoil: Neglect
• Unreal Stimulus

W

• Wake up and smell the trillions in pork
• Wanted: Personal Economic Trainers. Apply at Capitol.
• War Over Gaza
• We have no words left
• We must adjust our distorted image of Hamas
• We must stop arming Israel
• What Good Can Come of This?
• What Is Congress Stimulating?
• What Makes Ahmadinejad Smile?
• What You Don’t Know About Gaza
• When Maynard Met Nancy
• Why do so few speak up for Gaza?
• Why I Support the Stimulus
• Why Israel Fights

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• Yes, Israel Can Win in Gaza