Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Fat City Thank you, Illinois taxpayers, for my cushy life. David Rubinstein May 30, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 35 After 34 years of teaching sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, I recently retired at age 64 at 80 percent of my pay for life. This calculation was […]
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townhall.com By David Limbaugh 5/27/2011 My advice for the GOP: No more Mr. Nice Guy. No more putting the pretense of civility above the best interests of the nation. Democrats are playing cynical games with our national debt crisis, and it’s time they were called out on them — directly, volubly and repeatedly. Senate Democrats
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MAY 26, 2011 Democrats have said they only intend to restore the tax rates that existed during the Clinton years. In reality they’re proposing rates like those under President Carter. By STEPHEN MOORE Media reports in recent weeks say that Senate Democrats are considering a 3% surtax on income over $1 million to raise federal
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 By Neal Boortz You can’t spend like Europe and expect American results. Americans shouldn’t strive to be like Europe … especially when it comes to spending on social programs. Though this is exactly what Democrats are striving to achieve. In discussions about our entitlement crisis, it has become increasingly apparent that
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MAY 25, 2011 The consumer financial czar doth protest too much. No one in Washington does moral indignation better than Elizabeth Warren, the de facto head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And yesterday she was in high dudgeon on Capitol Hill attempting to repel efforts to hold her new bureaucracy more accountable. We
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MAY 25, 2011 No one ever questions George Soros money, but apparently this $1.5 million gift violates academic freedom. By DONALD LUSKIN Times are tough for state-funded colleges like Florida State University. After four years of budget trimming, FSU now faces an additional $19 million in cuts and a $40 million deficit. So it’s an
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MAY 20, 2011 As Socialists Risk Losing Key Areas, Economists Fear ‘Hidden’ Bills By JONATHAN HOUSE And SARA SCHAEFER MUñOZ ReutersDemonstrators fill up Madrid’s famous Puerta del Sol in a protest against authorities’ handling of the economic crisis on Thursday. MADRID—Weekend elections that threaten to drive Spain’s ruling Socialist party from power in several regions
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PAJAMASMEDIA.COM November 11, 2010 – 1:30 pm – by Zombie (In the first half of this essay, Gerrymandering 101, I explained how gerrymandering works and why it’s so ubiquitous. Here in the exciting conclusion I name and shame the ten most gerrymandered districts of the current 111th Congress — plus 20 bizarre bonus districts not
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Are they now the natural governing party of Canada? Fred Barnes May 16, 2011, Who’s the most powerful conservative leader in the Americas, north and south? That may sound like a trick question, but it’s not. The answer is Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister who triumphed last week
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