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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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Robert Bryce January 17, 2011 Rick Perry as a GOP dark horse Texas governor Rick Perry’s high-profile battle with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) couldn’t have come at a better time. The fight may not be over in time for the 2012 presidential elections, and he very well may lose, but
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Good manners are smart politics Former President Gerald Ford, left, introduces Supreme Court Associate Justice nominee Robert Bork, center, in 1987, as Senator Bob Dole looks on. Bork’s nomination, by President Reagan, met with heated opposition. By John E. Sununu Boston Globe January 17, 2011 IN MARCH of 1997, for a few shining days, ground
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January 17, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive State May Get No Pension Help From Washington By Anthony Greco RALEIGH — While no specific bailout plans are under consideration, U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has introduced H.Res. 23, stating Congress’ opposition to any federal intervention meant to “bail out state and local government employee pension
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Catastrophic Success The perils of a ‘do everything’ Democratic Congress. Noemie Emery January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 Once upon a time, there was success and there was failure, and one could usually tell the difference between them—the first had a thousand fathers and the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A World in Crisis What the thirties tell us about today. Matthew Continetti January 3 – January 10, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 16 On December 13, 1931, there was a traffic accident in New York City. A man exited a cab on the Upper East Side and was crossing
JANUARY 14, 2011 The governor has proven you can take on government unions and survive. Now he has to get real pension reforms. By JAMES FREEMAN In 2010, New Jersey’s Chris Christie proved that a governor can take on teachers unions and not only survive politically, but attract an enthusiastic following. In 2011, Mr. Christie
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