NOVEMBER 9, 2011 What it means when 90% of an agency’s workers retire with disability benefits. By PHILIP K. HOWARD The indictment of seven Long Island Rail Road workers for disability fraud last week cast a spotlight on a troubled government agency. Until recently, over 90% of LIRR workers retired with a disability—even those who
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NOVEMBER 8, 2011 A cause to unite the tea party and the Occupy Wall Street crowd. The Occupy Wall Street protesters aren’t good at articulating what they want, but one of their demands is “end corporate welfare.” Well, welcome aboard. Some of us have been fighting crony capitalism for decades, and it’s good to have
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com We’re Still Not Cutting by Jim DeMint November 8, 2011 Congress refuses to face the fiscal crisis. Despite bipartisan promises to cut spending after the 2010 elections, Washington politicians are still voting to make the government even bigger and more expensive than ever. Don’t believe me? Even though the federal government is
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NOVEMBER 5, 2011 They’re spending $30 million to repeal the state’s collective-bargaining reforms. By FRED BARNES Ohio Gov. John Kasich likened himself last week to Bernie Kosar, the Cleveland Browns quarterback from 1985 to 1992. Mr. Kasich was campaigning across Ohio for approval of Issue 2, the troubled referendum that would sharply curtail the power
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USA TODAY By Mitt Romney November 4, 2011 I spent much of my 25-year career in the private sector turning around failing enterprises. With a great team behind me, I helped to turn around the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, and fix a badly broken state budget in Massachusetts. But I have never seen an
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Something New for Schools to Fail At L.A.’s misbegotten teen dating curriculum. Heather Mac Donald October 31, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 07 If you wonder why American students rank poorly among industrialized nations on academic skills, here’s part of the explanation, from a seventh-grade classroom in the Los Angeles
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Even Rube Goldberg would recoil in horror from this regulatory contraption. Dave Juday October 31, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 07 A food versus fuel debate has raged for the past few years as ethanol consumes more and more of the U.S. corn supply. Ethanol will use about 40 percent of
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OCTOBER 28, 2011 He speaks the truth about housing and foreclosures. A friend of ours quipped recently that Mitt Romney could do his Presidential candidacy a lot of good if he took even a single position that is unpopular in the polls. Well, we can report that he has done that on housing policy, that
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Time for Another Harding? How a much-derided Republican president actually succeeded in cutting the budget and fixing the economy. Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh October 24, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 06 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Dawes penned a warning: “Some day, a President, if he is to save the
