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Oversight & Government Reform

OP-EDs


June 22, 2009
IG Firing Undermines Obama Promise, Warrants Investigation

President Obama’s dismissal of Gerald Walpin, former Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), has caused…

June 20, 2009
Alternative Energy Should Include Nuclear

Congress has pursued a strategy of taxing fossil fuels in order to discourage their consumption and has heavily subsidized alternative…

Ronald Reagan Reconsidered

Political irony has experienced a profound illustration in the early days of the Obama administration. Seldom has a president rendered…

June 18, 2009
CIA’s Panetta, DNI Blair Must End Turf War and Switch Jobs

When Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, it did so to better protect the American…

June 16, 2009
Reform is Needed, but Don’t Use Medicare Model

Somewhere between the health care extremes — no government involvement and total government control — real reform is possible. And…

June 10, 2009
More Spending, Less Transparency Means Deep Trouble for U.S. Taxpayers

In those last moments before the R.M.S. Titanic gutted its hull on a jagged iceberg 400 miles south of the…

June 8, 2009
A Tale of Two Treasuries

In his debut as the nation’s 75th treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner has been a smashing success — if success is…

June 5, 2009
Climate Bill a Pain in the Gas

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi engineered the ouster of the House dean, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), from his chairmanship of the…

Town Hall: Remembering Reagan and D-Day

Five years ago today, Ronald Reagan’s long goodbye came to an end.  The former president who lifted the disheartened American…

June 3, 2009
Boost to Federal Workforce in Weak Economy: Bad Bill

Added to the growing list of bird-brained schemes to increase the size of the federal government in the midst of…