MAY 14, 2011 Education spending and student-teacher ratio are about where they were in 2004. The real problem is that tax dollars are being diverted for teacher benefits. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Fullerton, Calif. Thousands of California teachers turned out this week to protest potential budget cuts to education and to urge lawmakers to raise taxes. […]
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MAY 14, 2011 Congress wants taxpayers to save mail worker pensions. One thing we’ll say about federal bailouts—if you pay attention, you can usually see them coming a mile away. It was true of Fannie Mae and General Motors, and it’s increasingly clear that the next candidate will be the U.S. Postal Service. The odds
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MAY 13, 2011 Tennessee’s Chamber Maids Nothing is worse for freedom and opportunity than when big business conspires with big labor. Behold the spectacle in Tennessee, where the Chambers of Commerce in Chattanooga, Knoxville and Nashville have joined with the teachers unions to kill education vouchers. That proposal, which has already passed the state senate,
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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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North Carolina House Legislative Update Republican Report Card Friends, Today is the 60th legislative day of the 2011 session. How are we doing on our 100 day plan to change North Carolina? Below is the document that I personally shared in over 30 cities during the fall campaign entitled, “100 Days That Will Change North Carolina.” Under
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APRIL 25, 2011 Notable & Quotable Journalist Charles Lane writing on China’s high-speed rail project in the Washington Post. Journalist Charles Lane writing April 22 in the Washington Post: For the past eight years, Liu Zhijun was one of the most influential people in China. As minister of railways, Liu ran China’s $300 billion high-speed
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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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APRIL 22, 2011 Hounded by taxes and regulations, employers in the once-Golden State are moving East. By John Fund Austin, Texas It wasn’t your usual legislative hearing. A group of largely Republican California lawmakers and Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled here last week to hear from businesses that have left their state to set
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A FASCINATING MOVIE – FIND WHERE IT IS PLAYING IN YOUR AREA
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APRIL 15, 2011, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA TEA PARTY – Laura Long introducing Bill Randall who will be a candidate for U.S. Congress in the 2012 election
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