FEBRUARY 25, 2011 If the president is so upset with Wisconsin’s labor law reforms, why won’t he allow federal workers to bargain collectively? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The union horde is spreading, from Madison to Indianapolis to a state capital near you. And yet the Democratic and union bigwigs engineering the outrage haven’t directed their
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THEBLAZE.COM Blaze Exclusive: International Socialists Orchestrate Unions‘ Rally to ’Save the American Dream’ Posted on February 25, 2011 at 5:18pm by Meredith Jessup Excerpt From This Article: Here in Washington, D.C., leftist activists at MoveOn.org are co-hosting a rally Saturday with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). But behind the scenes, The Blaze has exclusively learned
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February 24, 2011 By Victor Davis Hanson President Obama established a bipartisan debt-reduction commission — and then ignored its findings, which called for unpopular reductions in entitlements and across-the-board spending cuts. His first two budgets led to the largest deficits in U.S. history. The ensuing $3 trillion dollars in red ink prompted the tea party
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NATIONAL INFLATION ASSOCIATION WWW.INFLATION.US February 18, 2011 NIA Projects Multi-Trillion Dollar U.S. Budget Deficits Earlier this week, President Obama released the White House’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 along with their budget projections for the following 10 years. The White House projects a record budget deficit in 2011 of $1.645 trillion, but for the
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NewYorkTimes.com Wisconsin’s Blow to Union Power Will the governor’s fight against public employees’ collective bargaining rights sweep the nation? F.D.R. Warned Us Updated February 19, 2011, :James Sherk is the Bradley fellow in labor policy at the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation. “It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” That
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Where the Leaders Are In a time of crisis, two governors show Washington the way. By PEGGY NOONAN There were two big speeches this week, and I mean big as in “Modern political history will remember this.” Together they signal something significant and promising. Oh, that’s a stuffy way to put it.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2011 The GOP’s fiscal leader explains why House Republicans will vote to reform Medicare and why the public is ready to listen. By PAUL A. GIGOT Washington Paul Ryan doesn’t look like the menacing sort. He’s amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses
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FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Unlike years past, the budget debates in the House were vigorous and democratic, not stage-managed by the leadership of the majority party. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Washington and Lincoln—those birthday boys—ought to be smiling. The 112th House of Representatives spent the week debating how to fund the rest of fiscal 2011. In
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