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PAUL RYAN – THE BUDGET DEBATE WE ALL DESERVE

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Paul Ryan (R-WI). (Tribune file photo) By Paul RyanMay 16, 2011 Despite Washington coming to grips with the fact that the debt threat is real, policymakers still are not having the debate Americans deserve. The talk is too often restricted to “shared sacrifice.” This sets up a debate where we are really

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NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE NEWS

s Republican Leadership Supports Suit to Allow Health Care Freedom Raleigh – The fight for health care freedom continues in North Carolina. Yesterday, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger (R-Rockingham), Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown (R-Onslow), House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and House Majority Leader Paul Stam (R-Wake) filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of

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CALIFORNIA’S TAX REVOLT – IN FAVOR OF HIGHER RATES

MAY 14, 2011 Education spending and student-teacher ratio are about where they were in 2004. The real problem is that tax dollars are being diverted for teacher benefits. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Fullerton, Calif. Thousands of California teachers turned out this week to protest potential budget cuts to education and to urge lawmakers to raise taxes.

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THE COMING POSTAL BAILOUT

MAY 14, 2011 Congress wants taxpayers to save mail worker pensions. One thing we’ll say about federal bailouts—if you pay attention, you can usually see them coming a mile away. It was true of Fannie Mae and General Motors, and it’s increasingly clear that the next candidate will be the U.S. Postal Service. The odds

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BOEING AND THE UNION BERLIN WALL

MAY 13, 2011 Between 2000 and 2008, 4.8 million Americans moved from forced union states to right-to-work states—that’s one person every minute of every day. By ARTHUR B. LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE The Obama administration’s National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint last month against Boeing to block production of the company’s 787 Dreamliner at

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ON SPENDING CUTS, DEMOCRATS GIVE VOTERS THE BRUSH OFF

MAY 9, 2011 Obama says he’ll ‘check under the cushions.’ But neither he nor his allies on Capitol Hill have initiated any net reductions in spending since last fall’s election. Not once. By Fred Barnes Do President Obama and Democrats want to cut spending? There’s not much evidence they do. They have acquiesced to some

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GEORGE WILL – LOCKED IN LIBERALISM

News & Observer Fri, May 13, 2011 BY GEORGE WILL – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Outside the venue where Rep. Paul Ryan recently spoke in Madison, Wis., a university town never lacking protesters, one product of America’s education system shouted that Ryan’s budget proposal would return America to the bad old days of the

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