VIDEO – GLENN BECK – MIDDLE EAST IN TURMOIL
March 28, 2011
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LOUDEST OBAMACARE CHEERLEADER WANTS OUT
New York’s Rep. Anthony Weiner wants a ‘get out of jail free’ card By Dr. Milton R. Wolf Dr. Milton R. Wolf, a Washington Times columnist, is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist and President Obama’s cousin. He blogs at miltonwolf.com. The Washington Times Friday, March 25, 2011 Becoming the most hypocritical politician in America is not
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A REQUIEM FOR DETROIT
MARCH 29, 2011 A once-great American city today repels people of talent and ambition. By WILLIAM MCGURN If only Detroit could point to some natural disaster for its misfortunes. Within hours of the earthquake that devastated northeastern Japan, for example, President Obama called the prime minister to offer “whatever assistance is needed.” Likewise, when Hurricane
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WEINGARTEN FOR THE UNION DEFENSE
MARCH 26, 2011 Teachers Union Chief Randi Weingarten on charter schools, reformers Michelle Rhee and Joel Klein, and her star turn in ‘Waiting for Superman.’ By JASON L. RILEY New York Teachers unions are on the defensive these days. The Obama administration is pushing various measures long opposed by the unions: charter school expansion, pay-for-performance,
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DETROIT’S DECLINE AND THE FOLLY OF LIGHT RAIL
MARCH 25, 2011 The country needs to unleash entrepreneurs, who will only be held back by tax-funded make-work projects. By EDWARD GLAESER The Census just reported that Detroit’s population dropped by 25% between 2000 and 2010, a stunning fall that is even larger than the 20% drop Detroit experienced during the 1970s. The story of
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THOMAS SOWELL – UNION MYTHS
By Thomas Sowell 3/8/2011 The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians. Nothing shows the utter cynicism of the unions and the politicians who do their bidding like the so-called “Employee Free Choice Act” that
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MICHIGAN’S WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS
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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THE GREAT INTERVENTION OF 2012
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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RULES FOR WISCONSIN RADICALS
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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