MARCH 22, 2011 That battle was lost long ago—and now the young and talented are leaving. By WILLIAM MCGURN The new Republican governor of Michigan, Rick Snyder, likes to say that he’s not interested in the confrontation with organized labor that we see in Wisconsin. That may be. Nevertheless, Mr. Snyder has become Public Enemy
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MARCH 22, 2011 By DAMIAN PALETTA CAGUAS, Puerto Rico—This mountainside town is home to a picturesque cathedral, a tobacco museum and a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Another defining feature: Caguas’s 00725 zip code has more people who receive a disability check than any other in the U.S. Puerto Rico has emerged in recent years as one of
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March 21, 2011 By J.R. Dunn Sometimes the biggest victories are the ones that make the least noise. Lost amid all the excitement over the Rio trip, the anti-obesity campaign, and the March Madness picks was the revelation that Senate Democrats had given up any attempt to confirm Donald Berwick as chief of Centers for
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MARCH 15, 2011 They’re drilling for oil, attracting high tech, and keeping the tax burden moderate. Result: 3.8% unemployment. By JOEL KOTKIN Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development. Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated by the state’s Department of Mineral Resources at
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March 17, 2011 By F. Owen Smith America has become dependent on social steroids, the kind pushed under the street-name HGH, standing for Huge Government Handouts. The steroid metaphor is so aptly drawn as to make it irresistible, so with your permission I’ll develop it. Hold a photograph of the Twenties strongman Charles Atlas next
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MARCH 11, 2011 The perils of following us toward greater regulation, higher taxes and centralized power. By DANIEL HANNAN On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied. “Your president was plainly born in Brussels.” American conservatives have
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www.conservativewomensforum.com Say what you will about John McCain, but I believe he would have been a decisive president if he had won the 2008 election. As a result of that election, the United States has a president that is reluctant to provide American leadership at a time when the world is in dire need of a strong, guiding and reassuring presence. What Obama
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MARCH 15, 2011 Hint: Lose the whole ’60s thing. By WILLIAM MCGURN Just before the package of labor reforms favored by Gov. Scott Walker made it through the Wisconsin legislature, students demonstrating inside the Capitol mobilized to show their resistance. On the floor of the rotunda, they linked their bodies to offer a little protest
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March 14, 2011 Nancy Morgan For the first time in my life, I’m embarrassed to be an American. Last weekend, as tens of thousands of Japanese were fighting for their lives after an 8.9 earthquake devastated their nation, our President, after giving a generic “We’re with you” statement, remained noticeably absent. Not really absent —
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