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TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT AMERICAN OIL

MARCH 3, 2011 Why is Washington blocking oil exploration in states like Alaska and Louisiana when the Middle East is such a powder keg? By SEAN PARNELL,  governor of Alaska The revolution that began in Tunisia, spread to Egypt, and is now dramatically unfolding in Libya is far from over. The events in North Africa

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THE MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH-REFORM MESS

MARCH 1, 2011 The Massachusetts Health-Reform Mess The Bay State has shown the risks of ObamaCare. By JOHN E. CALFEE The biggest problem with ObamaCare is that it is bereft of proven ways to curtail increases in health-care costs. This has given rise to unending speculation about what will happen to these costs when the

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DEATH AND POLITICS – HOW THE GRIEF OVER KENNEDY’S DEATH WAS USED TO ENACT JOHNSON’S ‘GREAT SOCIETY’

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) On the use and abuse of grief as a partisan weapon. Noemie Emery February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 What’s in a political death? Whatever you want or need to see in it. Some deaths​—​those of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley​—​mean what they seem to, and are

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GREEN POWER, RED LIGHTS – ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Environmental activists have yet to meet an energy project they won’t try to stop. Adam J. White February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 “Sputnik” was not the only nostalgic moment in the State of the Union address. When President Obama called on Congress to “invest” in “clean energy

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THE DECLINE OF U.S. NAVAL POWER

MARCH 2, 2011 The Decline of U.S. Naval Power Sixty ships were commonly underway in America’s seaward approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on the oceans. By MARK HELPRIN Last week, pirates attacked and executed four Americans in the Indian Ocean. We and the Europeans have endured

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UNIONS VS. THE RIGHT TO WORK

FEBRUARY 28, 2011 Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty. By ROBERT BARRO How ironic that Wisconsin has become ground zero for the battle between taxpayers and public- employee labor unions. Wisconsin was the first state to allow collective bargaining for government workers (in

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UNION POWER FOR THEE, BUT NOT FOR ME

FEBRUARY 25, 2011 If the president is so upset with Wisconsin’s labor law reforms, why won’t he allow federal workers to bargain collectively? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The union horde is spreading, from Madison to Indianapolis to a state capital near you. And yet the Democratic and union bigwigs engineering the outrage haven’t directed their

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INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISTS ORGANIZATION ORGANIZED D.C. RALLY

THEBLAZE.COM Blaze Exclusive: International Socialists Orchestrate Unions‘ Rally to ’Save the American Dream’ Posted on February 25, 2011 at 5:18pm by Meredith Jessup Excerpt From This Article: Here in Washington, D.C., leftist activists at MoveOn.org are co-hosting a rally Saturday with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  But behind the scenes, The Blaze has exclusively learned

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