FEBRUARY 18, 2011 Unlike years past, the budget debates in the House were vigorous and democratic, not stage-managed by the leadership of the majority party. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Washington and Lincoln—those birthday boys—ought to be smiling. The 112th House of Representatives spent the week debating how to fund the rest of fiscal 2011. In […]
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JOURNAL SENTINEL.COM Unions want to overturn election result Feb. 16, 2011 Say you generally liked Gov. Scott Walker’s move to rein in government labor costs but had a few doubts on his method. The last few days should have cleared that up nicely. The public-sector union tantrums, meant to make lawmakers wobble, have an inadvertent
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Why American conservatism is alive and well in the 21st century. Jeffrey Bell February 7, 2011, The debate about Ronald Reagan has never shown any sign of ending, but it is less and less about whether his presidency was consequential. As has happened with a few other high-impact presidencies—see
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FEBRUARY 14, 2011 Runaway Trains Obama’s high-speed rail plan is a fiscal pipedream. We suppose every President is entitled to a pipedream, but President Obama’s vow in his State of the Union address that 80% of Americans should have access to high-speed rail in 25 years is a doozy. Vice President Joe Biden has followed
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FEBRUARY 10, 2011, 9:41 A.M. ET Reaganomics: What We Learned From December 1982 to June 1990, Reaganomics created over 21 million jobs. The right policies can do it again. By ARTHUR B. LAFFER For 16 years prior to Ronald Reagan’s presidency, the U.S. economy was in a tailspin—a result of bipartisan ignorance that resulted in
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FEBRUARY 8, 2011 Refreshing the President’s memory. Bill O’Reilly’s Fox interview with President Obama on Sunday was fascinating, and not merely because Mr. Obama made clear he’s an ardent fan of these pages. What really caught our attention was the President’s claim that “I didn’t raise taxes once. I lowered taxes over the last two
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THE ROCHE RECORD – by Frank Roche February 10, 2011 SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS NEED SOME HELP While it is statistically accurate to say the US economy is growing and recovering from the worst of the 2008-2009 economic downturn, many small business owners are still reeling, haven’t witnessed any recovery, and still wonder where their bailout is.
February 10, 2011 Jerry Brown: A Modern-Day Sisyphus By Victor Davis Hanson California Gov. Jerry Brown must rapidly close a $25 billion budgetary shortfall. But right now it seems almost a hopeless task since the state’s disastrous budget is a symptom, not the cause, of California’s much larger nightmare. Take unemployment. It currently runs 12.6
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