SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 The Size of Government and the Choice This Fall In polls, Americans overwhelmingly prefer small government and low taxes to the alternative. Yet they’ve been given big government, one program at a time. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS AND PAUL RYAN As we move into this election season, Americans are being asked to
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 Union Power and the Christie Effect After decades of expanding political clout, organized labor is finding voters increasingly unreceptive to its high-tax message. By STEVE MALANGA In the midst of the contentious 2009 gubernatorial race in New Jersey, the state’s teachers union took a poll of its own members and found only
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Democrats pivot on immigration By: Carrie Budoff Brown September 14, 2010 03:51 PM EDT In a strategy shift on immigration reform, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Tuesday that Democrats will try to pass a bill legalizing the status of young, undocumented immigrants if they attend college for two years or join the military.
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NEWS & OBSERVER By George Will September 12, 2010 WASHINGTON Looking back with pride, the British are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, when Churchill said of the pilots fighting the Luftwaffe: Never “was so much owed by so many to so few.” Looking ahead with trepidation, Americas are thinking: Never have
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 How ObamaCare Guts Medicare The president’s pledge that ‘If you like your health plan, you will be able to keep it’ clearly does not apply to America’s seniors. By PETER FERRARA AND LARRY HUNTER The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has attacked Senate Republican candidates for wanting “to end Medicare as we know
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2010 A President’s Class War Where on the income scale does Mr. Obama divide the country between us and them? By DANIEL HENNINGER Barack Obama may be the most embittered American president any of us has experienced. Read the text of that Labor Day speech he gave in Milwaukee. “Anyone who thinks we
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 Time for Emergency Economic Reform How about a payroll tax holiday, funded by a federal spending, hiring and pay freeze? By MITCH DANIELS, Governor of Indiana Ronald Reagan enjoyed telling of the elderly Blitz victim rescued from her demolished London flat in World War II. A fireman found a bottle of brandy under
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 The Obama Economy How trillions in fiscal and monetary stimulus produced a 1.6% recovery. So two months before an election, and 19 months after the mother of all spending programs, President Obama said yesterday he’s rolling out one more plan to stimulate the economy. We’ll discuss the details when they’re released, but
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The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, the start of the 110th Congress. The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd
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WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Los Angeles At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the
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