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FANNIE MED – AWASH IN OBAMACARE DOLLARS

June 5, 2012 Fannie Med Health and Human Services gets into the venture capital game. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  Then there’s Medicare’s so-called “innovation center” and its $10 billion kitty to make grants to companies and providers to test new methods for improving care. Democrats included language that bars administrative or even judicial review of […]

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MARK STEYN: U.S., EUROPE ON DIFFERENT PATHS TO SAME PLACE

REAL CLEAR POLITICS Published: June 1, 2012 By MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist letters@ocregister.com The Eurovision Song Contest doesn’t get a lot of attention in the United States, but on the Continent it’s long been seen as the perfect Euro-metaphor. Years before the euro came along, it was the prototype pan-European institution and predicated on the

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THE AGE OF ANXIETY – ROMNEY’S CHALLENGE IS TO ADDRESS THE DEEP UNEASINESS IN AMERICA

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin   Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,

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OBAMA’S CUTS TO THE MILITARY, BUT NO CUTS TO ENTITLEMENTS

OUR REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SHOULD BE MAKING THE VOTERS VERY MUCH AWARE OF OBAMA’S    HUGE CUTS TO THE MILITARY WHILE NOT CUTTING ENTITLEMENT SPENDING. Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Path to Security Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly April 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 28EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  To be sure, these are only

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PAUL RYAN’S BUDGET PROTECTS DEFENSE

March 27, 2012, 6:37 p.m. ET Ryan’s Budget Protects Defense Within a plan to reduce outlays by $6.2 trillion over the next decade, Paul Ryan has found a way to replace $214 billion of the $487 billion in military spending cuts in Obama’s budget. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS, EDWIN J. FEULNER AND WILLIAM KRISTOL Mr.

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DETROIT AND ITS PUBLIC UNIONS HEAD TOWARD BANKRUPTCY

March 14, 2012, 7:18 p.m. ET The Message of Motown Detroit and its public unions head toward bankruptcy. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  That’s because the city, which has twice as many retirees as workers, is spending more on retirement benefits than wages. Pensions make up about two thirds of the public-safety payroll, and many collective-bargaining

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PAUL RYAN – THE GOP BUDGET AND AMERICA’S FUTURE

Updated March 19, 2012, 10:50 p.m. ET The GOP Budget and America’s Future The president’s budget gives more power to bureaucrats, takes more from taxpayers to fuel the expansion of government, and commits our nation to a future of debt and decline. By PAUL RYAN Less than a year ago, the House of Representatives passed

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CALIFORNIA’S GREEK TRAGEDY

March 13, 2012 California’s Greek Tragedy No one should write off the Golden State. But it will take massive reforms to reverse its economic decline. By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN and JOHN F. COGAN Long a harbinger of national trends and an incubator of innovation, cash-strapped California eagerly awaits a temporary revenue surge from Facebook IPO

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