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NEWLY APPOINTED CRAIG BECKER REFUSES TO RECUSE HIMSELF FROM S.E.I.U. CASE

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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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DEMOCRATS TO THE RESCUE!

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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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WHAT? POST FINDS WASTE IN GOVERNMENT?

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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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RONALD REAGAN – ‘MORNING IN AMERICA’

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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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OBAMA’S MISTAKES

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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

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GOVERNMENT NUMBERS RE MEDICARE ARE NOT TO BE TRUSTED

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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

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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!

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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

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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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