JANUARY 21, 2011 The White House co-opts GOP talking points—will House Republicans take advantage of their newly won recourse? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Come one, come all, to witness President Barack Obama’s Great Leap Rightward. Come, as well, to witness the GOP response. Mr. Obama has a new mission this year—to make the country believe […]
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Elections Romney Wins New Hampshire Republican Straw Poll Published January 22, 2011 | FoxNews.com Reuters Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the New Hampshire Republican Party State Convention in Concord in September. While no one has declared their presidential campaign yet, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney emerged as the winner Saturday of a New
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JANUARY 20, 2011 When the former B-movie actor took the oath of office on January 20, 1981, he encountered a barrage of intellectual snobbery from Europe. By DAVID DAVIS Today marks the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. One wonders how the man who, by sheer force of belief, ended the
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JANUARY 20, 2011 Unless the party confronts its allies in the public-employee unions, it will continue to lose credibility with voters around the country. By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN There is a crisis in state and municipal finance. That much is clear. What hasn’t been fully understood is that the fate of the Democratic Party is
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By Dr. Paul Hsieh The Washington Times January 5, 2011 When President Obama signed his health care plan into law, he promised it would foster “choice and competition.” Nine months later, Americans can count this as another Big Lie. Obamacare has instead reduced competition in the marketplace for health services. The New York
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Founders’ spirit returns with Tea Party movement By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. The Washington Times January 5, 2011 New Year’s Day in Washington dawned gray, wet and cold. It was a perfect day for sightseeing, and so my wife and I decided to sightsee. We went to Mount Vernon, George Washington‘s home, named, incidentally, after
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JANUARY 19, 2011 The state adopts 401(k)s for new state employees. As Illinois and New Jersey struggle to reform their broken public pension plans, we thought you might like to hear a success story for change. Witness Utah, which last March replaced defined benefit pensions with a 401(k)-style plan for new state and municipal workers.
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Let’s scrap the Departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development, end farm subsidies, and end urban mass transit grants, for starters. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE The primary economic challenge today is that our government spends too much money it doesn’t have, and it is involved in too many things
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REDSTATE Posted by Brian Darling (Profile) Tuesday, January 18th at 4:30PM EST I just posted a piece on The Heritage Foundation blog, The Foundry, titled “How to Repeal ObamaCare in the Senate.” I tried to put into easy to understand terms the way for the Senate to repeal the unconstitutional ObamaCare. Although it is unlikely
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BOOK REVIEW: Overtaxed and overregulated By John R. Coyne Jr. The Washington Times January 3, 2011 FED UP! OUR FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA FROM WASHINGTON By Rick Perry Little, Brown and Company, $21.99, 220 pages Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest-serving governor in state history, is a constitutional scholar, a defender of free enterprise, a
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