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RAILING AGAINST BIG GOVERNMENT – OHIO AND WISCONSIN

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Ohio’s John Kasich and Wisconsin’s Scott Walker said no to Obama. But the taxpayer didn’t win. Stephen F. Hayes December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 When Wisconsin voters elected Scott Walker governor in November, they did so in no small measure because of his pledge to kill a

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THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE ABOUT THE NATIONAL DEBT

By James A. Bacon – The Washington Times    December 8, 2010 BLOOMBERG Erskine Bowles (right) and Alan Simpson, co-chairmen of the president’s deficit commission, challenged the panel’s members to put aside partisan differences and agree to its tax and budget recommendations. America’s budget debate suffers from a failure of imagination. Deficit hawks warn that the

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NET NEUTRALITY – FCC

Hands off tomorrow’s Internet By Meredith Attwell Baker Tuesday, December 21, 2010; On Tuesday, in a party-line vote, the three Democratic commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will adopt “net neutrality” rules. The rules will give government, for the first time, a substantive role in how the Internet will be operated and managed, how

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SENATOR COBURN’S LIST OF WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com The Corner Taxpayer Dollars at Work By Katrina Trinko December 20, 2010 Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) released today his annual Wastebook, which details lavish government funding on obscure projects. “As you look at these examples, ask yourself: at a time when we are borrowing over $44,000 for every person in

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AMERICA – THE RULING CLASS VERSUS THE COUNTRY CLASS

THE AMERICAN SPECATOR The Largest Selection of Liberal-baiting Merchandise on the Net! Feature America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations,

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THE GOP’S CALIFORNIA BLUES

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What explains the ‘reverse tsunami?’ Fred Barnes December 13, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 13 Palo Alto The election in California didn’t turn out as poorly as you might think. An $18 car fee, the proceeds going to spruce up parks, was voted down. So was an attempt to repeal

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THE TRIAL OF GEERT WILDERS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Pretentiousness Kills Lessons from the corrupt prosecution of Geert Wilders Sam Schulman November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Since January, the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, Beach Boy-haired founder and leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), has been on trial in Amsterdam for inciting hatred against Muslims and Holland’s

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