MARCH 1, 2011 The Massachusetts Health-Reform Mess The Bay State has shown the risks of ObamaCare. By JOHN E. CALFEE The biggest problem with ObamaCare is that it is bereft of proven ways to curtail increases in health-care costs. This has given rise to unending speculation about what will happen to these costs when the […]
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Imagine the uproar if our tax dollars were used to help Christian churches! Mosque Makeovers With Your Tax Dollars – Video – WSB Atlanta
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) On the use and abuse of grief as a partisan weapon. Noemie Emery February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 What’s in a political death? Whatever you want or need to see in it. Some deaths—those of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley—mean what they seem to, and are
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Regulator in Chief The unchecked, unelected, unaccountable Elizabeth Warren. Fred Barnes February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is forgotten but not gone. It’s housed, quietly and temporarily, in the Treasury Department as it prepares to become an official, stand-alone federal agency on
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FEBRUARY 26, 2011 The Republican governor wants a new social contract. By JOHN FUND The state Capitol building in Madison has been occupied round-the-clock by protesters for nearly two weeks. Fourteen Democratic state senators are still on the lam, refusing to allow a vote on a budget-repair bill. And Gov. Scott Walker has been called
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FEBRUARY 26, 2011 By NEIL KING JR. Corrections & Amplifications Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels favors a dramatic reworking of Social Security benefits, but not for those who would enter the system in the next 10 or 15 years. This story doesn’t make clear that the changes wouldn’t apply to those receiving or about to receive
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FEBRUARY 25, 2011 How can fringe benefits cost nearly as much as a worker’s salary? Answer: collective bargaining. By ROBERT M. COSTRELL The showdown in Wisconsin over fringe benefits for public employees boils down to one number: 74.2. That’s how many cents the public pays Milwaukee public-school teachers and other employees for retirement and health
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FEBRUARY 25, 2011 If the president is so upset with Wisconsin’s labor law reforms, why won’t he allow federal workers to bargain collectively? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The union horde is spreading, from Madison to Indianapolis to a state capital near you. And yet the Democratic and union bigwigs engineering the outrage haven’t directed their
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REDSTATE.COM The Obama Administration’s energy policy is not evil, it’s just wrong, wrong, wrong. Posted by Steve Maley (Profile) Thursday, February 24th As “Vladimir”, I’ve written at length about the destructive energy policies of the Left and of the Obama Administration. Specifically, their hostility toward domestic producers and the producing states will inevitably lead to
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February 24, 2011 By Victor Davis Hanson President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission — and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. His first two budgets led to the largest deficits in U.S. history. The ensuing $3 trillion dollars in red ink prompted the tea party
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