Washington Examiner Opinion: 'Durbin fees' are coming, thanks to progressives

'Durbin Fees' are coming, thanks to 'progressives'

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By: Examiner Editorial

If we had a "Dim Bulb of the Year" award, we would give it to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. How better to honor someone who so ostentatiously proposes a policy with obvious unintended consequences, then gets angry when they predictably come to pass?

Western leaders have history of blinders on duplicitous regimes

By: Diana West

Robert Conquest, pre-eminent historian of the genocides, purges and terrors of the Soviet Union, has long contemplated the blinders the West wears when looking at -- or, rather not looking at -- the millions of dead bodies the gigantically Evil Empire was responsible for.

Sunday Reflection: Changing the Constitution

By: Glenn Reynolds

Last weekend I participated in an unusual event -- a conference on the prospects for a federal constitutional convention at Harvard Law School, co-sponsored with the Tea Party Patriots and Fix Congress First. (See the agenda at www.conconcon.org). A wide variety of participants from both the left and the right mixed with surprising comfort and cordiality, and found numerous points of agreement.

One president, two days and seven fundraisers

By: Charlie Spiering

All last week, President Obama continued a cross-country tour to promote his jobs bill. But as the quarterly deadline for fundraising approached, he also found plenty of time to woo the West Coast's rich and famous in search of their campaign dollars. In fact, Obama attended seven fundraisers in the space of two days -- a crash-course cash crawl that may have grossed his campaign up to $10 million.

Living amid Hollywood hypocrisy

By: Janine Turner

I had to listen to it for years on sets, at dinners, in rehearsals, in the make-up chair, and at award ceremonies. The judgmental, hot, mostly uninformed rants of Hollywood liberals breathed down my neck and sucked all the air from the room. Usually, the rants were so hostile that I was afraid to speak up, or so ridiculous that I thought it futile to reply.

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