Don’t Fear the Debt

Obama’s new tax reform proposals should help accelerate spending but his pork-laden, slow-acting infrastructure fund plan will do little to spur growth.  more

NY-13 GOP candidate and veteran Michael Grimm spoke with FF to clear allegations by a rival that he wore medals he had not earned in a campaign photo.  more

In his quest for a moderate Islam, “Ground Zero” Imam Abdul Feisal Rauf has often excused radical Islam’s worst practices while pointing a finger at the West.  more

Petraeus’ remarks denouncing a church’s plan to burn a Qur’an are a rebuke to those who insist on recasting the war against radical Islam as a war against all Islam.  more

Today, Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty asked for $260 million in federal funds from a stimulus bill he had earlier derided as “reckless”.  more

Is Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden’s backtrack on the individual mandate the start of a Democratic retreat from one of the core features of Obamacare?  more

Longtime climate change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg’s call for more spending on low-carbon technology will help push forward a debate stuck in neutral since Copenhagen.  more

Americans and Canadians who rallied to support Haiti after the island was hit with an earthquake, have been slow to give to victims of Pakistan’s floods.  more

This year, Republicans have a chance to correct the party’s mistakes and push it back on the right track. And as a U.S. Senator, that’s what I will do.  more

Many economists are worried about a double dip recession. But as this scary chart from the St. Louis Fed shows, we might still be waiting to see the bottom of the first dip.  more

This weekend, world-famous novelist Margaret Atwood, found herself in a fight that would be unimaginable in the days before social media.  more

With Sen. Murkowski’s defeat and three other retirements, the Senate energy committee will soon have four Republican vacancies.  more

Is Obama’s popularity among young voters sliding? FrumForum spoke to students to see how their political views have changed since the ’08 election.  more

David Frum’s review of a new history of the 1970s raises an interesting question: what do readers look for in history books that they can’t find on the internet?  more

The communists of Eastern Europe did not win over the support of artists by terror alone. They also seduced them.  more