VIDEO – GOVERNMENT GONE WILD
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Government Waste and Fraud
PAUL RYAN – THE BUDGET DEBATE WE ALL DESERVE
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Paul Ryan (R-WI). (Tribune file photo) By Paul RyanMay 16, 2011 Despite Washington coming to grips with the fact that the debt threat is real, policymakers still are not having the debate Americans deserve. The talk is too often restricted to “shared sacrifice.” This sets up a debate where we are really
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THE FAILURE OF AMERICAN SCHOOLS
June 2011 THE ATLANTIC Who better to lead an educational revolution than Joel Klein, the prosecutor who took on the software giant Microsoft? But in his eight years as chancellor of New York City’s school system, the nation’s largest, Klein learned a few painful lessons of his own—about feckless politicians, recalcitrant unions, mediocre teachers, and
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CALIFORNIA’S TAX REVOLT – IN FAVOR OF HIGHER RATES
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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THE COMING POSTAL BAILOUT
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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TENNESSEE – BIG BUSINESS CONSPIRES WITH BIG LABOR
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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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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NORTH CAROLINA – REPUBLICAN REPORT CARD
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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CHINA’S HIGH SPEED RAIL PROJECT IS IN TROUBLE
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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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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