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CONNECTING THE DOTS IN THE IRS SCANDAL

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL CONNECTING THE DOTS IN THE IRS SCANDAL By Bradley A. Smith Mr. Smith, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, is chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics Feb. 27, 2014 The mainstream press has justified its lack of coverage over the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups […]

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NC SENATOR KAY HAGAN – WORST PRESS CONFERENCE EVER ?

  NORTH CAROLINA SENATOR KAY HAGAN – WORST PRESS CONFERENCE EVER ?     http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/02/26/dem-senator-has-worst-press-conference-ever  

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AN OBAMACARE REPORT CARD

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) An Obamacare Report Card The grades are bad so far—and likely to get worse Christopher J. Conover February 17, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 22 Perhaps the most unpleasant aspect of my otherwise quite enjoyable job as a college professor has been the requirement to assign grades to students.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF OBAMA’S BIGGEST CONSTITUTIONAL FLOPS

  reason.com A Brief History of Obama’s Biggest Constitutional Flops Damon Root|Feb. 15, 2014 2:00 pm Last month’s Supreme Court oral argument in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning brought new attention to a recurring problem with the Obama administration. Despite his training as a former constitutional law lecturer, President Barack Obama continues to

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HOW THE WAR ON POVERTY WAS LOST

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL HOW THE WAR ON POVERTY WAS LOST By Robert Rector Mr. Rector is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation Jan. 8, 2014 On Jan. 8, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson used his State of the Union address to announce an ambitious government undertaking. “This administration today, here and

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WELFARE IN AMERICA: $1 TRILLION AND RISING

    IBD Editorials Welfare In America: A $1 Trillion Tab And Rising By STEPHEN MOORE Posted 02/13/2014 Republicans in Congress are being accused of fighting a “war on the war on poverty,” in part because of a tiny cut in the food stamps program last week. Democrats charge that these “cuts” will take food

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THE END OF GOVERNMENT

  The end of government By Robert J. Samuelson, Published: February 9, 2014 Something strange is happening in Washington. We are slowly dismantling the federal government, even as its spending is growing larger. The paradox is that governmental competence is being systematically degraded while the government’s size, as measured by its budget, is increasing. We are

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OBAMA’S ATTEMPT TO LICENSE TAX PREPARERS

  COMMENTARY No Wonder Obama Was so Desperate to Pack the D.C. Circuit John Steele Gordon | @steelegordon 02.12.2014   EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Why did the Obama IRS try to get away with this? Simple: to help out the big guys at the expense of the small guys, which is to say crony capitalism. Obeying the

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THE REAL EQUALITY AGENDA

  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Real Equality Agenda Let’s redistribute power, not income. Jay Cost Jay Cost is a staff writer at The Weekly Standard. February 10, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 21 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  By expanding government to deal with economic imbalances, Obama threatens to exacerbate the nation’s already deeply unequal

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COBURN, THE DOCTOR WHO IS SICK OF WASHINGTON

  THE WALL STREET JOURNAL THE DOCTOR WHO IS SICK OF WASHINGTON  By Joseph Rago  Mr. Rago is a member of the Journal’s editorial board  February 1, 2014 Washington Tom Coburn stood for Congress in 1994 as a political tenderfoot for two main reasons: As an obstetrician he thought government was impinging too much on

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