EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The irony of laments by Democrats such as Mr. Obama about (Republican) money in politics is that most outside dollars are being spent in the service of liberal candidates and causes. The progressive left has spent the better part of a decade building an archipelago of tightly linked third-party groups; MoveOn.org, Democracy
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WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 How Government Unions Became So Powerful While politicians have opposed the right to strike, public-sector labor leaders have focused on pay increases and constitutional guarantees. By AMITY SHLAES This weekend we celebrate Labor Day in a country divided between two kinds of workers. The first is the private-sector worker,
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MURDOCK: A Republican in Harlem Michel Faulkner could upend Rangel with conservative play By Deroy Murdock – The Washington Times August 12, 2010 Illustration: Harlem Hokie by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times ”I am not going away,” 40-year veteran Rep. Charles B. Rangel told House colleagues Tuesday. “You’re not going to tell me to
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AUGUST 20, 2010 More Countrywide Loans What Senate ethicists didn’t tell us. Turns out the Senate ethics committee’s 2009 whitewash of Senator Chris Dodd’s sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial was even worse than we thought. Three times worse. The committee was asked to examine Mr. Dodd’s 2003 receipt of two “Friends of Angelo” loans, named
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AUGUST 15, 2010 The Next Pension Bailout New momentum to dump union retirement burdens on taxpayers. Congress is gone for August—heaven be praised—but that hasn’t stopped unions from quietly mobilizing to push through a big new priority this fall: a pension bailout. Big Labor is going Code Red on the issue, in the face of
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Holder puts felons over soldiers The Justice Department obstructs military voting rights By THE WASHINGTON TIMES July 28, 2010 U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference announcing the indictment of six more New Orleans Police officers in the Danziger Bridge shooting and cover-up in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Tuesday, July 13,
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Mona Charen July 23, 2010 The Washington Post Finds Waste — In Government! It’s not at all clear that the Post understands the larger lesson. EXCERPTS FROM THIS ARTICLE: Nor do federal departments and agencies even know where all of the money goes. In “National Suicide,” Gross recounts, “In one recent
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse? The Baghdad government runs a top-down command economy and only pays lip service to private jobs and economic diversification. By JUDITH MILLER Baghdad Since America toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has had three free-wheeling, relatively fraud-free national elections. Its military has been reconstituted,
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No Shady Banking Buddy Left Behind by Michelle Malkin 08/06/2010 First Lady Michelle Obama’s latest overseas jaunt is getting all the headlines. But President Obama’s money-grubbing junket to Chicago may cost taxpayers far more in the long run. With his Gaultier-clad wife sashaying around the Spanish seaside, the lonely fundraiser-in-chief returned to Illinois to take
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Richard Bernstein – FoxNews.com – August 06, 2010 Five Myths About the GOP That Just Won’t Die Five lies told by Democrats that have increased the dissatisfaction with the Republican Party. Many Americans today are unhappy with the Democratic Party. Yet according to a Gallup poll conducted in July 2010, Democrats were still ahead of
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