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HOW THE ‘SPECIAL INTEREST PORK’ GOT INTO THE FISCAL CLIFF BILL

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  WASHINGTON EXAMINER    January 2, 2013    by Tim Carney     http://washingtonexaminer.com/tim-carney-how-corporate-tax-credits-got-in-the-cliff-deal/article/2517397#.UOVlQuTO3De   The “fiscal cliff” legislation passed this week included $76 billion in special-interest tax credits for the likes of General Electric, Hollywood and even Captain Morgan. But these subsidies weren’t the fruit of eleventh-hour lobbying conducted on the cliff’s edge — […]

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MORE DEBT AND TAXES ARE CERTAIN

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  January 2, 2013, David Malpass: Nothing Is Certain Except More Debt and Taxes The Senate fiscal-cliff bill still means higher taxes on every working American. So much for just going after ‘the rich.’ By DAVID MALPASS EXCERPT FROM  THIS ARTICLE:  No wonder many House Republicans balked at what was presented. The New Year’s Day

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THE HISTORY OF OUR GROWING GOVERNMENT

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  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Real Cliff The staggering debt from decades of continuous government borrowing is about to come due Christopher DeMuth Christopher DeMuth is a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute. December 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 15 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp were authentic supply-siders,

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GUN CONTROL – TWO CAUTIONARY TALES

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  December 27, 2012 Joyce Lee Malcolm: Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control After a school massacre, the U.K. banned handguns in 1998. A decade later, handgun crime had doubled. By JOYCE LEE MALCOLM Americans are determined that massacres such as happened in Newtown, Conn., never happen again. But how? Many advocate more effective treatment

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LIBERALS AND LOOPHOLES

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   December 17, 2012 Of Liberals and Loopholes The current tax code favors high-tax states. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  when Californians voted to raise their top rate to 13.3% last month, they were voting to reduce revenue for the federal Treasury and thus increase the political pressure to raise tax rates on all Americans. The

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THE DIGITAL COLD WAR – CLOSING OF THE INTERNET

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  December 17, 2012 America’s First Big Digital Defeat A majority of the 193 U.N. member countries have approved a treaty giving governments new powers to close off access to the Internet in their countries. By L. GORDON CROVITZ EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  The U.S. delegation never understood this conference was fundamentally a battle in

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OBAMACARE’S FAUX FEDERALISM

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  December 18, 2012 ObamaCare’s Faux Federalism GOP Governors are smarter than some of their conservative critics. Having failed to persuade 26 states that participating in ObamaCare is a good deal, the liberals behind the law are denouncing these dissident Governors as federalist hypocrites. A few critics on the right are chiming in and arguing

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THE SEBELIUS COVERUP – OBAMACARE EXCHANGES

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  Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Sebelius Coverup Obamacare’s insurance exchanges need scrutiny. Jeffrey H. Anderson December 10, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 13 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Prior to the election, most reporters — or their editors — weren’t interested in looking into any of this too closely. But in the wake of

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