AUGUST 15, 2010 The Next Pension Bailout New momentum to dump union retirement burdens on taxpayers. Congress is gone for August—heaven be praised—but that hasn’t stopped unions from quietly mobilizing to push through a big new priority this fall: a pension bailout. Big Labor is going Code Red on the issue, in the face of […]
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AUGUST 16, 2010 The End of American Optimism By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN Our brief national encounter with optimism is now well and truly over. We have had the greatest fiscal and monetary stimulus in modern times. We have had a whole series of programs to pay people to buy cars, purchase homes, pay off their mortgages,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Mona Charen July 30, 2010 12:00 A.M. A Democrat Goes into a Psychiatrist’s Office Democrats can’t run on their records, so they accuse Republicans of extremism. Come in. Make yourself comfortable. What’s that? You’re a congressional Democrat? You voted to triple the national debt; destroy a health-care system that an overwhelming majority
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August 09, 2010 Obama shows Virginia Dems out the door the Chicago way Mark J. Fitzgibbons Virginia’s Democratic senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb campaigned as moderates, but have virtually guaranteed limiting themselves to single terms by supporting President Obama’s radical big-government, job-killing agenda. DNC chairman Tim Kaine was limited by law to one term
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AUGUST 11, 2010 Recusal Refusal NLRB appointee Craig Becker’s evolving definition of ethics. President Obama in March gave Craig Becker a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board, after even Senate Democrats proved unwilling to confirm the union lawyer to the agency charged with fairly settling labor disputes. It appears their misgivings were justified.
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AUGUST 11, 2010 Stimulus Pushers EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The unions themselves could have prevented some layoffs had they been willing to adjust their rich benefits. In Milwaukee, for example, nearly all of the 500 teacher layoffs announced earlier this year could have been avoided if the unions had agreed to change health plans that
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen July 23, 2010 The Washington Post Finds Waste — In Government! It’s not at all clear that the Post understands the larger lesson. EXCERPTS FROM THIS ARTICLE: Nor do federal departments and agencies even know where all of the money goes. In “National Suicide,” Gross recounts, “In one recent
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HEUBUSCH: Remembering ‘Morning in America’ Tax cuts unleashed America’s renewal at home and abroad By John Heubusch – Executive Director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library The Washington Times July 28, 2010 Illustration: Reagan’s morning by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Over the eight years of the Reagan
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Representative John Shadegg of Arizona speaks of a way of forcing congress to identify its specific constitutional authority before passing bills. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq7is_njFQ0&feature=player_embedded
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Neither Roosevelt nor Reagan How Obama blew his opportunity. BY Noemie Emery August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 When he signed the health care reform bill earlier this year, Barack Obama gave progressives the prize they had aimed at for seven-plus decades, an event they compared to the
