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Housing Hot, Again?

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BY FROMA HARROP Another housing boom? N-o-o-o! Housing starts are now inching up. Mortgages are easier to obtain. Even the “piggyback loan” has returned. That lets you take two mortgages at the same time and get around having to buy mortgage insurance when borrowing more than 80% of a home’s value. “Housing Is Back!” hollers […]

The Right To Lie

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BY SHARON MARTIN The headline read, “Virginia man gets seven years in prison for stealing Obama’s teleprompter.” What the man had actually stolen was a...

Guns, God And Background Checks

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH I happened to be sitting in the Fox News bureau between “hits” on Tuesday morning, when the news broke about the stabbing at Lone Star College in Houston. Watching it unfold in real time, I couldn’t help but think [as I’m sure all of us did] about the Newtown, CT, massacre and […]

Thatcher’s Tea Party

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BY JOE CONASON Amid all the suffocating claptrap celebrating Margaret Thatcher in the media, only the British themselves seem able to provide a refreshing hit of brisk reality. Over here, she is the paragon of principle known as the “Iron Lady,” devoted to freedom, democracy and traditional values who bolstered the West against encroaching darkness. […]

An Immigration Fix For Real

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BY FROMA HARROP Not only is a Senate plan for reforming the immigration program smart, it may actually become law. Those two things don’t necessarily go together. That it is bipartisan would seem a near miracle. The “Group of Eight” reformers – led by Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democrat Chuck Schumer of […]