NEWS&OBSERVER Raleigh, North Carolina Sun, Feb 13, 2011 Lily Broom squirmed in her mother’s belly, reminding her to fight to survive. It was October 2008, and Lily’s father had just shot her mother. The bullet missed Lily but shredded Danna Broom’s intestines, tucked behind the sac in which Lily had grown for the previous 26 […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Decline of the Justice Department Mukasey’s verdict on Holder. Jennifer Rubin January 31, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 19 Former attorney general Michael Mukasey is not prone to hyperbole. He’s a former federal judge, a meticulous lawyer, and, as he proved in succeeding Alberto Gonzales, a skilled administrator who
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WALL STREET JOURNAL FEBRUARY 7, 2011 Twenty-one governors representing more than 115 million Americans have written to Kathleen Sebelius asking for more flexibility on health-care reform. By MITCH DANIELS Unless you’re in favor of a fully nationalized health-care system, the president’s health-care reform law is a massive mistake. It will amplify all the big drivers
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FEBRUARY 7, 2011 By ALISTAIR MACDONALD And CASSELL BRYAN-LOW LONDON—A British Airways PLC employee named Rajib Karim allegedly exchanged electronic messages with an al Qaeda cleric in Yemen for more than two years, his activities cloaked by an encrypted fortress he created on a laptop computer and an external hard drive, prosecutors say. Rajib Karim,
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FEBRUARY 4, 2011 Their budgets will be crushed by the Medicaid expansions that the feds are forcing on them. By GEORGE MELLOAN Behind this week’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson overturning ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, there is a deeper economic reality. The states can’t afford it. That’s a primary reason why 26
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FEBRUARY 3, 2011 Alice Rivlin and Paul Ryan have a bipartisan plan. By KARL ROVE ObamaCare has recently been dealt three body blows. Speaker John Boehner pushed a bill to repeal it through the House. GOP leader Mitch McConnell will get to put Senate Democrats on record with a vote on repeal as well. And
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JANUARY 24, 2011 Saved by Washington, the union wants to write its own labor laws. The top priority for the United Auto Workers this year is to organize one of the foreign, or so-called “transplant,” car makers. That makes perfect sense—for the UAW. Their rich labor contracts and stifling work rules helped bring low Detroit’s
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JANUARY 14, 2011 A proposal to ban regulation without representation. One of the most important political stories of 2011 will be regulation, as the backwash of the outgoing Congress hits the federal agencies and the White House drives its agenda via rule-making rather than democratic consent. Republicans are vowing to thwart these maneuvers, but the
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Massacre, followed by libel By Charles Krauthammer Washington Post – Wednesday, January 12, 2011; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106068_pf.html The charge: The Tucson massacre is a consequence of the “climate of hate” created by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Obamacare opponents and sundry other liberal betes noires. The verdict: Rarely in American political discourse has there been
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JANUARY 10, 2011 By making it harder for companies to go public, Congress and regulators tilt the playing field in favor of the wealthy and well-connected. By L. GORDON CROVITZ Facebook raised $500 million last week, but the only people who could invest were the wealthiest private clients of Goldman Sachs. Instead of offering shares
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