AUGUST 27, 2010 Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future Few Californians in the private sector have $1 million in savings, but that’s effectively the retirement account they guarantee to many government employees. By ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Recently some critics have accused me of bullying state employees. Headlines in California papers this month have been screaming “Gov […]
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AUGUST 22, 2010 Political Reversal Down Under Running an explicitly conservative campaign, Australia’s Tony Abbott has denied Labor a governing majority. By MARY KISSEL Sydney In December the smart set in the big cities here thought the Liberal Party—Australia’s traditionally conservative party—had jumped off a cliff by electing Tony Abbott opposition leader. The Liberals, opined
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Opinion: Washington’s Endangered Species Marty Robins Contributor AOL News (Aug. 23) — If Washington seems out of ideas on how to get the private-sector jobs machine running again, there’s a pretty straightforward reason — the people in government have virtually no experience in business. In a major departure from prior administrations, you’d be hard-pressed to
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RAHN: An inconvenient economic history Record shows recovery results from tax cuts, not government spending By Richard W. Rahn – The Washington Times August 9, 2010 Chart: Economic Policy and Outcomes Where is the historical evidence to show that big increases in government spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) lead to faster
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Sunday, August 22, 2010 www.therocherecord.com ABC CHOOSES AMANPOUR. GOODBYE For 29 years I’ve been a loyal viewer of the ABC Sunday morning news talk show, “This Week.” From 1981 – 1996 it was “This Week with David Brinkley,” and I rarely missed a broadcast. David Brinkley, Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson, and George Will were a
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AUGUST 11, 2010 Stimulus Pushers EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The unions themselves could have prevented some layoffs had they been willing to adjust their rich benefits. In Milwaukee, for example, nearly all of the 500 teacher layoffs announced earlier this year could have been avoided if the unions had agreed to change health plans that
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This article and video from the Huffington Post gives us a perspective on how the Far Left feels about Obama’s performance as president versus as a senator. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/10/obama-vs-obama-on-afghani_n_676836.html
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BLANKLEY: ‘We socialists’ vs. ‘we the people’ Americans are readying to reclaim their birthright of liberty By Tony Blankley– The Washington Times August 9, 2010 The cheerful, jaded, sneering question de jour from liberal journalists and Democratic Party commentators (I know, there’s a pretty fine distinction) is, “What will the Republican Party do if it
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Why the Left Hates Conservatives – Dennis Prager on National Review Online NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Dennis Prager July 27, 2010 12:00 A.M. Why the Left Hates Conservatives Liberals don’t just hate conservatism as an ideology; they hate conservatives as individuals. Of all the recent revelations to come out of JournoList, an e-mail list consisting
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Baked in the Cake Everything you needed to know about Obama could have been learned from his campaign. BY Peter Wehner August 2, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 43 During the 2008 campaign, it was clear that Barack Obama would govern as a liberal on several important issues. But it
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