Dear MoveOn member, “Look, I know MoveOn usually works on national issues, but the Republicans have taken over, and we really need your help.” That was the message I got last week from a leading progressive in the state legislature in my home state of Maine. I could hear the urgency in her voice—and we’re […]
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NEWS & OBSERVER Jan 05, 2011 Raleigh, North Carolina by William H. Pruden III, head of the Upper School at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh A new Congress convenes today, and recent news reports indicate that there are plans to put the Constitution front and center as the nation’s lawmakers prepare to address the country’s mounting
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JANUARY 4, 2011 The House GOP is making it harder to tax and spend. House Republicans are pledging to cut spending, and one early sign they’re serious is the rules package they are bringing to the House floor tomorrow. More than the last time it held power, the GOP is changing the rules to make
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JANUARY 4, 2011 The House Republican majority has said it will require members to cite the specific authority for any bill they introduce. By ROGER PILON If the new Congress to be sworn in on Wednesday is the tea party’s cardinal achievement so far, its most symbolic achievement will come on Thursday, when the first
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Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped
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JANUARY 3, 2011 The Liberal Reckoning of 2010 The year voters saw the left’s unvarnished agenda and said no. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a press release last week headlined “111th Congress Accomplishments.” It quoted a couple of Democratic Party cheerleaders calling this the greatest Congress since 1965-66 (Norm Ornstein) or even the
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January 01, 2011By K.E. Campbell The biggest challenge facing Republicans in the 112th Congress is not Barack Obama. It is not Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate. It isn’t high unemployment, repealing ObamaCare, the threat of Islamism and sharia in America, the deficit, or the looming insolvency of several (mostly blue) states. These, broadly speaking,
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Government by regulation. Shhh. By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 31, 2010; Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health-care law. Well,
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