DECEMBER 19, 2010 The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom ‘Net neutrality’ sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented […]
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NEW YORK TIMES December 16, 2010 Can Congress Force You to Be Healthy? By JASON MAZZONE HENRY E. HUDSON, the federal judge in Virginia who ruled this week that the individual mandate provision of the new health care law is unconstitutional, has become the object of widespread derision. Judge Hudson explained that whatever else Congress
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December 16, 2010 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive Public Employee Pension Debt Explodes By Karen McMahan RALEIGH — If government officials were forced to apply the same uniform accounting methods that private pension plan administrators must use to calculate liabilities, experts say the funding shortfall would be five times greater than the amount being reported
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Published on National Legal and Policy Center (http://www.nlpc.org) Corporations Push President on Global Climate Fund By Paul Chesser Created 12/15/2010 – 11:44 After the failure in Copenhagen last year for countries who hoped for a successor agreement to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, lower expectations surrounded this year’s version of the UN Framework
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Republicans and their leadership better find a way to kill this bill. Call them and tell them to stop all lame duck legislation! Throwing Us Under the Omnibus By Chris Horner on 12.15.10 @ 10:20AMAC http://spectator.org/blog/2010/12/15/throwing-us-under-the-omnibus From an indefatigable source on the Hill: As many have been alerting you, there are several FUNDAMENTAL problems with
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The Omnibus Arrives 1:11 am December 15, 2010, by Jamie Dupree I have been talking about it for weeks, and yesterday it was finally released. A 1,924 page behemoth known in the lexicon of Capitol Hill as the “Omnibus” budget bill, chock full of thousands of home state budget earmarks. Even though it was championed
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Newsmax Romney: Tax Cut Deal No Jobs Fix Tuesday, December 14, 2010 The temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts that President Barack Obama and Republican members of Congress agreed to will not translate into large job growth or investment, and Congress should come up with a better deal, says former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Lots of untruths are being spread by the president. William R. Maurer November 29, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 11 Since the Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. FEC last January, politicians have vied to see who could speak of the decision with the most vitriol. President Obama said
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. No Bailout For California by Joseph Farah Nov 2010 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: California actually sent more Democrats to Washington in 2010 than they did in 2008. How bad was it? One state Senate race in particular kind of illustrates California’s political myopia — the one in which Democratic candidate Jenny Oropeza defeated Republican
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Rites of Initiation Will the freshman Republicans earn ‘strange new respect’? Fred Barnes November 29, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 11 The newly elected House Republicans, that hardy band of conservatives, are in for a rude surprise. But not yet. The press and other branches of the Washington establishment will
