Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Unionsdämmerung Despite having its best friend forever in the White House, the American labor movement is in mortal crisis Mark Hemingway April 25 – May 2, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 31 One of the most widely circulated photographs during the Wisconsin union battle was of a protester in Madison […]
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A Great Quote. “The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America’s debt
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May 02, 2011 By Randall Hoven Everyone wants to end subsidies to oil companies, from President Obama to John Boehner and Paul Ryan. My question was “What subsidies?” Remarkably enough, CNN Money provided the answer. It turns out that they are all tax “breaks.” I even hesitate to call them “breaks” because some of them
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April 28, 2011 By Larry Kudlow Fed head Ben Bernanke, at his first-ever news conference on Wednesday, slammed the door shut on any new QE3 pump-priming. The $600 billion QE2 program to purchase bonds will end on target at the end of June, and that will be that. Bernanke also suggested that the Fed’s “extended
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR By David Catron on 4.26.11 @ 6:09AM The Supreme Court’s decision to deny Virginia’s request for expedited review of its Obamacare lawsuit was disappointing but not surprising. Even the Old Dominion’s Attorney General, Kenneth Cuccinelli, has admitted all along that his chances of convincing the high court to grant his “petition for
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Current Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 4.28.11 @ 6:09AM WASHINGTON — While inspecting the body politic, one encounters one clear sign that Liberalism is dead. It is the condition of our political discourse. Polite commentators note that the dialogue is “rancorous.” Some say toxic. Actually it is worse than
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APRIL 25, 2011 Notable & Quotable Journalist Charles Lane writing on China’s high-speed rail project in the Washington Post. Journalist Charles Lane writing April 22 in the Washington Post: For the past eight years, Liu Zhijun was one of the most influential people in China. As minister of railways, Liu ran China’s $300 billion high-speed
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APRIL 26, 2011, 10:30 A.M. ET Our auto industry took off because workers could choose whether or not to join a union. By LAMAR ALEXANDERMr. Alexander is a U.S. senator from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. He is also a former governor of Tennessee. The National Labor Relations Board has moved to
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APRIL 25, 2011 The subsidies to buyers of ‘qualifying’ insurance policies will induce sharp reductions in the supply of labor. By DANIEL P. KESSLER Mr. Kessler is professor of business and law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Supporters of ObamaCare acknowledge it will have some unintended consequences. Yet surprisingly
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