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GEORGE WILL – LOCKED IN LIBERALISM

News & Observer Fri, May 13, 2011 BY GEORGE WILL – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON Outside the venue where Rep. Paul Ryan recently spoke in Madison, Wis., a university town never lacking protesters, one product of America’s education system shouted that Ryan’s budget proposal would return America to the bad old days of the […]

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THE MILLIONAIRE RETIREES NEXT DOOR

MAY 12, 2011 Typical retired couples will collect $1 million or more in Social Security and Medicare. This is more than they paid in, and the cost will fall on today’s workers. By JOHN COGAN Readers may recall the 1950s TV show, “The Millionaire,” which portrayed stories of individuals who were given a “no strings

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CANADA MAKES A RIGHT TURN

MAY 4, 2011 The country skipped the housing bust and its budget is headed toward balance. Voters liked it. By DAVID GRATZER In the winter of 1997, two Canadian conservatives wrote a stark essay arguing that conservative governance was an unlikely prospect for their country. The governing Liberal Party was the most electorally successful party

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SUPREME COURT ALLOWS OBAMACARE TO METASTASIZE

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR By David Catron on 4.26.11 @ 6:09AM The Supreme Court’s decision to deny Virginia’s request for expedited review of its Obamacare lawsuit was disappointing but not surprising. Even the Old Dominion’s Attorney General, Kenneth Cuccinelli, has admitted all along that his chances of convincing the high court to grant his “petition for

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HOW HEALTH REFORM PUNISHES WORK

APRIL 25, 2011 The subsidies to buyers of ‘qualifying’ insurance policies will induce sharp reductions in the supply of labor. By DANIEL P. KESSLER Mr. Kessler is professor of business and law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Supporters of ObamaCare acknowledge it will have some unintended consequences. Yet surprisingly

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THE RYAN POSSE

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Saddled up and ready to go. John McCormack April 22, 2011 11:59 AM In his column today, Charles Krauthammer sizes up the potential GOP presidential candidates and concludes by noting there’s a chance Paul Ryan could end up running in 2012: Even less likely to run — the 2016 bench

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AMERICA’S EVER EXPANDING WELFARE EMPIRE

FORBES Apr. 22 2011 By PETER FERRARA A fundamental misconception about America’s welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the attitude in his book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State: “no matter how large the welfare state, liberal politicians and writers have accused it

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OBAMA’S PERMANENT SPENDING BINGE

APRIL 22, 2011 If government got by with 20% of GDP in 2007, why not in 2021, when GDP will be substantially higher? By JOHN B. TAYLOR Palo Alto, Calif. Americans are clamoring for a fact-based debate about the budget, but the numbers they’re hearing from Washington are terribly confusing. Here’s an example: Speaking at

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THE GREAT DEBATE – RYAN VS. OBAMA

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Great Debate Ryan vs. Obama will be this year’s main event, if the president is up for it. Fred Barnes April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Paul Ryan’s dissection of Obama- –care at the White House health care summit on February 25, 2010, elevated him to a

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