MAY 12, 2011 Obama’s Running Mate Mitt Romney’s ObamaCare problem. Mitt Romney travels to Ann Arbor today to deliver what his campaign bills as a major address laying out his “2012 principles for health-care reform.” These are likely to be sensible, but what we’ll be listening for is how he explains his health-care principles of
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BOSTON HERALD Romney: Picture of health Speech could save — or kill — prez campaign By Hillary Chabot | Wednesday, May 11, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | U.S. Politics Photo by Chitose Suzuki (file) Mitt’s speech could save — or kill — his prez campaign Former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney will try to reverse the RomneyCare curse tomorrow
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APRIL 30, 2011 Prison guards can retire at the age of 55 and earn 85% of their final year’s salary for the rest of their lives. They also continue to receive medical benefits. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Roughly 2,000 students have to decide by Sunday whether to accept a spot at Harvard. Here’s some advice: Forget
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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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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Real Mediscare Obama’s rationing is the thing to worry about. Mark Hemingway May 9, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 32 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Unlike other federal agencies with regulatory powers, IPAB is subject to no external review process—no public notification in advance of proposed rules, no opportunity for
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THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR By David Catron on 4.26.11 @ 6:09AM The Supreme Court’s decision to deny Virginia’s request for expedited review of its Obamacare lawsuit was disappointing but not surprising. Even the Old Dominion’s Attorney General, Kenneth Cuccinelli, has admitted all along that his chances of convincing the high court to grant his “petition for
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APRIL 25, 2011 The subsidies to buyers of ‘qualifying’ insurance policies will induce sharp reductions in the supply of labor. By DANIEL P. KESSLER Mr. Kessler is professor of business and law at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution Supporters of ObamaCare acknowledge it will have some unintended consequences. Yet surprisingly
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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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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The status quo is far more ‘extreme’ than the Republican budget Yuval Levin April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Late last month, Senator Charles Schumer of New York led a conference call in which Senate Democrats briefed reporters about the ongoing budget battle. At the outset, unaware that
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Charles Krauthammer April 22, 2011 12:00 A.M. 2012: The Racing Form A look at the long shots, the serious candidates, and the 2016 bench. Unified Field Theory of 2012, Axiom One: The more the Republicans can make the 2012 election like 2010, the better their chances of winning. The 2010 Democratic
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