FEBRUARY 19, 2011 The GOP’s fiscal leader explains why House Republicans will vote to reform Medicare and why the public is ready to listen. By PAUL A. GIGOT Washington Paul Ryan doesn’t look like the menacing sort. He’s amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 A seminal showdown between public unions and taxpayers. For Americans who don’t think the welfare state riots of France or Greece can happen here, we recommend a look at the union and Democratic Party spectacle now unfolding in Wisconsin. Over the past few days, thousands have swarmed the state capital and airwaves
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Unlike years past, the budget debates in the House were vigorous and democratic, not stage-managed by the leadership of the majority party. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Washington and Lincoln—those birthday boys—ought to be smiling. The 112th House of Representatives spent the week debating how to fund the rest of fiscal 2011. In
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JOURNAL SENTINEL.COM Unions want to overturn election result Feb. 16, 2011 Say you generally liked Gov. Scott Walker’s move to rein in government labor costs but had a few doubts on his method. The last few days should have cleared that up nicely. The public-sector union tantrums, meant to make lawmakers wobble, have an inadvertent
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PAJAMASMEDIA.COM By Victor Davis Hanson February 13, 2011 In times to come, the period between the failed campaign of John Kerry and the Democratic control of the Congress, coupled with the beginning of the successful surge, should be known as “The Insane Years.” This was the era in which Guantanamo was a gulag, renditions were
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) To Live and Die in Philadelphia The abortionist’s house of horrors. Joseph Bottum February 7, 2011, Dr. Gosnell was a little befuddled at his arraignment on January 20. Indicted for eight murders, the Philadelphia abortionist told the court that he understood the first count, a charge of third-degree murder
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Holder Justice Department declares open season on big city police departments Heather Mac Donald January 31, 2011, In 2000, a deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration slapped the Los Angeles Police Department with federal oversight. A 1994 law gives the Justice Department the authority to seek control
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011 States need relief from the program’s inflexible rules and escalating costs. By PETER SUDERMAN Facing growing resistance to Medicaid costs, the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, sent a letter to states last week noting the “urgency of your State budget concerns” and suggesting some minor program changes to
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