July 12, 2011 By Byron York 7/12/2011 “This is a disaster,” Mark Miller, the Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader, said in February after Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a budget bill that would curtail the collective-bargaining powers of some public employees. Miller predicted catastrophe if the bill were to become law — a charge repeated thousands […]
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Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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Sarah Palin’s Notes Notes About Sarah Palin The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders by Sarah Palin on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 6:22pm Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that
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NEWS & OBSERVER Sat, Jul 09, 2011 By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Here we go again. An approaching crisis. A looming deadline. Nervous markets. And then, from the miasma of gridlock, rises our president, calling upon those unruly congressional children to quit squabbling, stop kicking the can down the road
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JULY 9, 2011 Europeans pay tribute to a great American—and long for another. By PEGGY NOONAN What brilliant good it can do a country when the world respects, and will not forget, one of its leaders. What was vividly true 30 years ago is true today: The world looks to America. It doesn’t want to
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A Compass for Conservative Politics By JEREMY W. PETERS NY Times Published: July 10, 2011 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Without the soupy South Florida humidity and the fastidiously clipped lawn, the Newsmax headquarters here would be a lot like one of those diners in New Hampshire and Iowa where autographed pictures of politicians cover
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Isn’t that the morally decent thing to do? Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future. July 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 41 The problem with
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Queen of the Tea Party The presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann Matthew Continetti July 4 – July 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 40 If she’d fallen backward, she’d have been killed. It was September 2009, during her second term in Congress, and a magazine had sent a photographer to
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