Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Unionsdämmerung Despite having its best friend forever in the White House, the American labor movement is in mortal crisis Mark Hemingway April 25 – May 2, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 31 One of the most widely circulated photographs during the Wisconsin union battle was of a protester in Madison […]
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FORBES Apr. 22 2011 By PETER FERRARA A fundamental misconception about America’s welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the attitude in his book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State: “no matter how large the welfare state, liberal politicians and writers have accused it
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The status quo is far more ‘extreme’ than the Republican budget Yuval Levin April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Late last month, Senator Charles Schumer of New York led a conference call in which Senate Democrats briefed reporters about the ongoing budget battle. At the outset, unaware that
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SeekingAlpha.com | by: Ananthan Thangavel April 19, 2011 | about: GLD Over the weekend, an announcement was made that the University of Texas endowment fund had decided to take delivery of $1 billion worth of gold. This was an absolutely huge development on multiple fronts. First, the UT endowment fund’s gold purchase was a radical deviation
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BOSTON GLOBE Celebrating Romney’s true role April 18, 2011 + LAST WEEK, as they celebrated the fifth birthday of the state’s universal health care law, Democrats offered crocodile congratulations to Mitt Romney for his role in making the landmark statute a reality. Because that law served as the model for ObamaCare, it has become anathema
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Justice Paul Newby of the North Carolina Supreme Court was the guest speaker at the Chapel Hill Republican Women’s luncheon on April 15, 2011. Justice Newby is running for reelection to the State Supreme Court in the upcoming 2012 election. Also speaking was Dan Forest, a well-known Charlotte architect who is also the son of
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APRIL 15, 2011, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA TEA PARTY – Laura Long introducing Bill Randall who will be a candidate for U.S. Congress in the 2012 election
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Senate Bill 8 – Charter Schools On Monday evening, Senate Bill 8, “An Act to Remove the Cap on the Number of Charter Schools,” passed the House by a vote of 68 – 51. Despite its unanimous support from Republicans and one courageous Democrat, changes to the charter school legislation have raised questions by some
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Paranoid Style in Liberal Politics The left’s obsession with the Koch brothers Matthew Continetti April 4, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 28 Wichita EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Ah, but such is life when you and your brother are suddenly two of the most demonized men in American politics. For
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April 07, 2011 – carolinajournal.com Carolina Journal Exclusive VIDEO: Is DOT Double-Counting High-Speed Rail Jobs? By Anthony Greco RALEIGH — Under the job-years concept, if one person holds the same job for four years, it’s counted as four jobs. That’s how the North Carolina Department of Transportation can claim that federal funding for high-speed rail would
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