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GOVERNMENT NUMBERS RE MEDICARE ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED

AUGUST 8, 2010 Richard Foster for President Medicare’s chief actuary vs. President Obama on the ObamaCare facts. There probably isn’t a worse job in Washington than Medicare trustee, unpaid Capitol Hill interns included. Every year the trustees issue the gravest warnings about entitlement spending and at best prompt a moment of brow-furrowing before the political […]

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THE TRUE COSTS OF HIRING NEW EMPLOYEES

AUGUST 9, 2010 Why I’m Not Hiring When you add it all up, it costs $74,000 to put $44,000 in Sally’s pocket and to give her $12,000 in benefits. By MICHAEL P. FLEISCHER With unemployment just under 10% and companies sitting on their cash, you would think that sooner or later job growth would take

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CANADA – LAND OF CONSERVATISM!

AUGUST 9, 2010 Canada, Land of Smaller Government Its corporate income tax rate is 18% and falling. America’s is 35%. By JASON CLEMENS When Americans look to Canada, they generally think of an ally, though one dominated by socialist economic policies. But the Canada of the 1970s and early 1980s—the era of left-wing Prime Minister

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OBAMA’S MOTIVES FOR CLOSING CAR DEALERSHIPS

AMERICAN THINKER July 22, 2010 Race Played Role in Obama Car Dealer Closures By William Tate The Obama administration, already under fire for unprecedented allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias claim from a most unlikely source: one of the administration’s own inspectors general. Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of

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MCCOLLUM FIGHTS TO PROTECT STATES FROM BIG GOVERNMENT

AUGUST 6, 2010 McCollum v. ObamaCare Florida attorney general and GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum is leading the charge to protect states from an intrusive federal government. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL ‘The brazen nature of this administration is undermining the basic rule of law, the confidence of the public, and taking away states’ authority—creating an

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR – THE ROOSEVELT MYTH

THE NEWS & OBSERVER Letter to the Editor Aug 06, 2010 Roosevelt realities A July 25 letter-writer said that President Roosevelt used the government to get this nation back on track during the Great Depression. He’s wrong. A whole alphabet of federal agencies was established to dictate to private businesses how they could operate. Virtually

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LAWS BY THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED

THE NEWS & OBSERVER Aug 06, 2010 Legislating outside the legislature by Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON Last week, a draft memo surfaced from the Homeland Security Department suggesting ways to administratively circumvent existing law to allow several categories of illegal immigrants to avoid deportation and, indeed, for some to be granted permanent residency. Most disturbing was the

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THE RULES OF THE GAME—THE DODD/FRANK BILL

AUGUST 5, 2010 Geithner’s Hollow ‘Speed’ Pledge to Business To reduce uncertainty, the Treasury secretary says Dodd-Frank regulations will be implemented quickly. That can’t and won’t happen. By GLENN HUBBARD AND HAL S. SCOTT Businesses must know the rules of the game before risking their capital. And so, in his speech at New York University’s

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