Redstate...
Daily Kos poll
suggests Union movement no match for TEA Party, Posted by
Neil Stevens
Tuesday, April 26th - By request, I took a look at this poll by PPP for
Daily Kos and SEIU. Markos Moulitsas himself is hyping the poll as
showing an enthusiasm gap, which of course was one big indicator of the
electoral wipeout we saw in 2010. I think that he’s right, to a degree.
However I read the figures as having two conclusions: First, the TEA
party effect is still there, and Republicans are slightly more engaged
than Democrats at this early point in the cycle. Second, the Union... read more
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Redstate...
Barack Obama Comes
Out For Even HIGHER Gas Prices, Posted by Erick Erickson
Wednesday, April 27th - I realize Barack Obama graduated magna cum
laude from Harvard and was Editor of Harvard Law Review, but I’m
starting to think he’s not that bright — or at least lacks sense (never
mind that he won’t release his college transcripts). He’s definitely an
amateur and it shows when, late yesterday, Obama came out in favor of
even higher gas prices. As a friend noted on Facebook, Obama’s
popularity is falling so fast that Kenyans are now claiming Obama
was... read more
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Columbus
Dispatch Editorial... Bipartisan
effort
Democrats, too, are reining in the costs of public-employee benefits -
On Tuesday night, the Massachusetts House of Representatives followed
the lead of legislatures in Ohio and Wisconsin in voting to limit the
collective-bargaining rights of public-employee unions. The measure
would reduce the ability of police officers, teachers and city
employees to bargain for health-care benefits. The aim, as in Ohio, is
to save millions of dollars for hard-pressed... read more
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Townhall...
Natural Gas Cars:
Let the Market Decide, By Romina Boccia
With gas prices unbearably high and driving season approaching,
Americans are easy prey for those who promise to ease their pains at
the pump. This makes it high season for politicians and their cronies
seeking taxpayer-financed support of alternative fuels. While President
Obama favors electric cars, preferably run on solar and wind energy,
other interest groups are eagerly pursuing handouts for vehicles fueled
by natural gas. Americans should be wary of any special... read more
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Townhall... Chipping Away Again
at Bearings of America, By Marybeth Hicks
It’s a minor issue, really, but when you think about it, the decay of a
nation happens a little at a time. Last week, bowing to pressure from
the American Civil Liberties Union, the Sweeny Independent School
District in Texas announced that it would reword its district and high
school handbooks so students no longer would be disciplined for
refusing to stand for the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance... read more
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Townhall... Slacker America,
by Bruce Bialosky
A few years back I had a conversation with an exchange student from
Colombia who was working as a busboy to earn some spending money. He
spoke English fluently – an aberration in Los Angeles – and I asked him
what he thought was the most surprising thing about America. He said
“How hard everyone works.” That may have been true then, but we are
quickly becoming a nation of slackers. America’s work... read more
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Dayton
Daily News... Martin
Gottlieb: Boehner dream of new kind of House languishes
Friday, April 22, 2011 - The Boehner Watch, part umpteen: The fact that
the U.S. House of Representatives passed a 2012 budget blueprint that
reinvents Medicare has won plenty of attention. However, for those
interested in how local boy John Boehner is faring — and how he’s
performing — as speaker, also worth noting is just how the House did
that. The budget was the work of Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the Budget
Committee. As recently as late last year, Boehner was lukewarm... read more
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Redstate...
Liars and Lies,
Posted by Erick Erickson
Monday, April 25th - Reporters, Democrats, and even some Republicans
have begun repeating an infectious lie in the prelude to the debt
ceiling debate. Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner started it off and
it has been repeated by reporters in print, on radio, and on
television, including Fox News. The lie is very simple: a failure to
raise the debt ceiling will cause a default on American debt. This is
utterly and categorically a lie. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar...
read more
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Townhall... A History Month for
Every Leftist, By Mike Adams
When I was a little boy I knew I was different than most of the other
little boys. My parents started to notice when I was just a toddler.
Sometimes it was the way I would reach out and grab things that didn’t
belong to me. Sometimes it was as subtle as the way I would reach out
to pet my dog Poncho. I didn’t know it at the time but I was becoming a
left-handed boy in a world that is 90% right-handed... read more
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Human Events... Atlas Endures, by
John Hayward
Why a clumsy little movie that critics hate is one of the year’s most
powerful films. 04/25/2011 - The new movie Atlas Shrugged: Part I did
well enough in limited release to warrant wider distribution this
weekend, but critics absolutely hate it. It’s currently standing
at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes, a website that collects ratings from many
different sources and computes an average score. This is the same
aggregate... read more
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Townhall.com’s
Washington Beat, April 26, 2011
SHELL SHOCKED DRILLING BAN and more: As gas prices continue to soar
while President Obama tells the American people there is nothing he can
do to solve the problem, the Environmental Protection Agency forced
Shell Oil Company to scrap plans to drill in one of the most remote
locations in the United States this week. Shell had planned to drill 70
miles off the coast of Alaska’s North Slope in the Arctic Ocean, but
the EPA denied the company a drilling permit after... read more
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Townhall...
7 Ways Politicians
Mislead The American Public, By John Hawkins
Government has become too damn big, too damn intrusive, and too damn
lucrative for the good of the country. That’s why so much of the
political class in this country is comprised of con men, sociopaths,
and fortune hunters. Quite frankly, most of these people would rather
that you didn’t understand their motives, what they really want to do,
or the policies that they’re implementing because what’s actually good
for the country is a much smaller consideration than what’s good for
them... read more
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Townhall... Obama’s Regulatory
Tsunami More Destructive than Taxes, By Lurita Doan
As Obama travels about the country, speaking of the need
for “shared sacrifice” and the need to increase taxes, he doesn’t
say a word about the tsunami of new Obama regulations ranging from
light bulbs to ozone pollution to painkillers to foreign travel to
vending machines that is about to hit America. Their impact will
be huge and do serious damage to our economy. Obama’s regulatory
tsunami began... read more
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Townhall... Video Games and
Bullying, By Marybeth Hicks
A month ago, President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hosted a
summit to focus attention on the national bullying crisis. Convened at
the White House by the U.S. Department of Education, the forum was
meant to draw attention to national, state and local efforts to curb
the growing problem of bullying among children and teens that too often
has resulted in pain, violence and even a rash... read more
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Townhall...
‘Compact’? What
Compact? By Bill Murchison
The editorial page of The New York Times naturally picked up on
President Obama’s assault on the GOP for assaulting the “social
compact,” a terrible thing to do, by the president’s and the Times’
reckoning. As Obama phrased it, the Republican goal of bringing the
federal government’s multi-trillion-dollar deficit into line with
economic realities “is less about reducing the deficit than it is about
changing the basic social compact in America.” The New York Times
throws the states into... read more
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Akron
Beacon Journal... Incentive
to share
Tuesday, Apr 19, 2011 - Ohio must shrink its costly layers of local
government. The state can do much more to help spur the change - After
struggling through a recession that depressed tax revenues and
stiffened voter resistance to new levies, local governments now are
facing a budget plan by Gov. John Kasich that would slash revenue
sharing by 33 percent during the next two years. The result? More talk
among units of local government about working together... read more
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Human Events... President
Whatever Finds Things Not Going His Way, by Michael Barone
04/18/2011 - Barack Obama is a politician who likes to follow through
on long-term strategies and avoid making course corrections. That’s how
he believes he won in 2008, and since then he’s shown that he’s not
much into details. So he was happy to let congressional appropriators
fill in the blanks in the 2009 stimulus package, and to let
congressional leaders know he would be happy whether there was... read more
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Townhall... Uncle Sam Can Help
Women by Simplifying and Lowering Taxes
by Hadley Heath - Americans just sent the last bit of 2010 tax
paperwork – along with a sizable chunk of our incomes – to Uncle Sam.
Most Americans naturally want to put the ordeal behind us. But before
the memory fades, it’s worth reviewing the toll that our Leviathan tax
code takes on our economy, and specifically on American women.
Washington may be filled with rhetoric... read more
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New
York Times... Let’s Not Be
Civil, By Paul Krugman
April 17, 2011 - Last week, President Obama offered a spirited defense
of his party’s values — in effect, of the legacy of the New Deal and
the Great Society. Immediately thereafter, as always happens when
Democrats take a stand, the civility police came out in force. The
president, we were told, was being too partisan; he needs to treat his
opponents with respect; he should have lunch with them, and work out a
consensus. That’s a bad idea. Equally important, it’s an
undemocratic... read more
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Townhall...
Make the Rich Pay!
By Victor Davis Hanson
Last week, President Obama reversed course once again and now wants to
raise taxes on the “rich” making above $250,000 per year. Obama is in
dire need of additional revenue after proposing a $3.8 trillion 2011
budget -- containing the largest deficit in U.S. history at an
estimated $1.6 trillion. Yet his latest share-the-wealth proposals make
little sense. Obama never distinguishes between the super-rich and the
well-off. At one point in justification, the president scoffed, “I
don’t need... read more
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Townhall... Academic Rot,
By Walter E. Williams
The average American, as parent, student and taxpayer, has little idea
of the academic rot at so many of our colleges. Save for a tiny handful
of the nation’s colleges, what distinguishes one college from another
is the magnitude of that rot. One of the best sources of information
about our colleges is the New York City-based Manhattan Institute’s
quarterly Web magazine, Minding the Campus... read more
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Daily Events... A monstrous,
burdensome tax code
Mondays with Tony Lee - 04/18/11 - Today is when many Americans will
file their taxes, sending their hard earned money to the government.
The tax code is monstrous and burdensome, as evidenced by the many
Obama officials who could not figure it out. It has to change. In the
1980s, one of Ronald Reagan’s signature accomplishments was lowering
the confiscatory marginal tax rates... read more
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Human Events... Voters Are
Listening, by John Hayward
04/19/2011 - Obama near record low approval rating, and so is everyone
else. The Washington Post teamed with ABC News to poll President
Obama’s approval ratings, and came up with a dismal 47% approve and 50%
disapprove. Strong disapproval is up to 37%, which the Post
reports “nearly matches the worst level of his presidency.” The
President’s disapproval rating among independents has... read more
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Truthout... Obama Returns to His
Moral Vision: Democrats Read Carefully!
by George Lakoff - Monday 18 April 2011 - Last week, on April 13, 2011,
President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable
gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the president’s
speech as if it were only about budgetary details. But the speech went
well beyond the budget. It went to the heart of progressive thought and
the nature of American democracy and it gave all progressives a... read more
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An Easter Message
from Redstate… Dear Morning Briefing Subscriber,
This year, the anniversary of our Lord’s crucifixion falls on the
anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s birthday, which is also Earth Day. Some
will choose to worship creation today. We at RedState choose to worship
our Creator today and hope you have a blessed and happy Easter. And
they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it
might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my
garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast... read more
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Townhall... Caring Enough to
Broadcast the Very Best, By Cal Thomas
Growing up, “Hallmark Hall of Fame” represented the gold standard of
what we would call today “family values” television, except that TV
then rarely carried anything threatening to those values. Today,
Hallmark’s commitment to quality television hasn’t change; it even has
its own cable channel, which shows films that affirm the values most of
us hold dear. This Easter Sunday, CBS will mark the 60th... read more
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Truthout...
High Food Prices: Do
Family Farmers Benefit? by Timothy A. Wise, Triple Crisis
Sunday 17 April 2011 - Farm prices are up again, so farmers must be
getting rich, right? The U.S. Department of Agriculture sure thinks so,
projecting that U.S. farmers will see record net cash farm income of
$99 billion in 2011. The media follows the government’s lead, offering
interviews with farmers gushing about their new-found prosperity. Are
things really so great down on the U.S. farm? They may be for the big
guys, but they’re not for many family farmers. My... read more
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Sojourners...
Oh Lord, Won’t You
Make Me Rich So I Can Pay More Taxes! by Valerie Elverton
Dixon
04-18-2011 - The gospel according to the movie True Grit (2010) is as
follows: “You must pay for everything in this world one way or another.
There is nothing free except the grace of God.” This is true for
individuals and it is true for nations. If we want to reduce the budget
deficit and strengthen the social safety net, we are going to have to
pay for it. All of us. In his speech on reducing the budget deficit,
President Obama was right to call for higher taxes on the rich. Most of
the nation’s wealth... read more
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Townhall... Obama Admits That
Budget is About Values, By Star Parker
One of the reasons we study history is that there is something to learn
from it. We’re now noting that traumatic landmark in American history –
the beginning, 150 years ago, of the Civil War. As we recall what
happened then, we’ll hopefully consider its relevance to what is
happening now. What caused a rift so deep among Americans that we went
to war with ourselves and 600,000 plus had to die at the hands... read more
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Townhall... Why Don’t Christians
Help ... Christians? By Dennis Prager
In 1969, at the age of 21, I was sent to the Soviet Union. I was a
young American Jew who spoke Hebrew and Russian and who practiced
Judaism. My task was to bring Jewish religious items into the Soviet
Union and the names of Jews who wished to leave the Soviet Union out of
that country. Upon returning to the United States, I became the
national spokesman for the Student Struggle... read more
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Truthout...
Walker Proposes
Hiking Taxes and Fees on the Poor and Students
by Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress - Sunday 17 April 2011 - One of the most
important ideological commitments of the modern conservative movement
is an opposition to tax increases. It is with this ideology that
then-Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker signed Americans
For Tax Reforms’ “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” a vow not to raise taxes
on the people of his state. Yet in his newly proposed budget,
now-governor Walker appears to have already broken this pledge... read more
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Townhall
Finance... Tax Congress!
By John Ransom
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid want you to know that the
rich are out of control. After thinking about it for a few years, they
have finally figured out that our economic problems have a very simple
explanation: There are too many rich people. Too many rich people are
causing a jobless “recovery.” Having too many rich people caused the
Fukushima nuclear reactor to meltdown. The rich are probably
responsible for the next ice age too... read more
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Townhall... Obama’s Domestic
Imperialism, by Mark Baisley
Is it just me, or did everyone else feel a sudden shift in the tectonic
plates of national discourse? For decades, the American political
debate could be summed up as government provision versus private
innovation. While the conservative position seems to remain, “That
government is best that governs least,” the liberal priority appears to
have advanced from, “That government is best that governs most... read more
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Townhall... Main Street
Understands Compromise, By Salena Zito
WASHINGTON – The sweeping office of the Speaker of the House once
housed the Library of Congress – more than 6,000 leather-bound tomes
owned and beloved by Thomas Jefferson. A Christmas Day fire in 1851
destroyed nearly two-thirds of them. The House speaker then was
southern Democrat Linn Boyd, who was critical in shepherding the
passage of the 1850 Compromise... read more
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Akron
Beacon Journal... Broken
at the ballot
If Ohio doesn’t repair its problems with provisional voting, it invites
a whopper of a legal fight in a close election - Listen to Republicans
in the Ohio House, and the complexities of repairing the state’s
elections machinery, about to be tested again in 2012, pale in
comparison to a single issue: voter fraud. In recent weeks, the House
rushed passage of a bill that would require voters to present a photo
ID on Election Day, erecting a barrier to the ballot box when episodes
of fraud... read more
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Dayton
Daily News... Brown had
no help from Obama aides on shuttle effort, By Jack Torry
Monday, April 18, 2011 - WASHINGTON — It seemed a no-brainer: The White
House could have given a boost to Sen. Sherrod Brown’s re-election next
year and helped President Barack Obama in a state he must win to earn a
second term. All the White House had to do was say the magic words:
Send a shuttle to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Instead, NASA officials last week said
that when the four space shuttles are... read more
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Townhall... Dictating is Easy;
Leading is Hard, By Jon Sanders
They were happier times. Headier times. President Barack Obama and his
Democrats held strong majorities in both the House and Senate. Dreams
of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” were at
hand. Best of all, nobody could stop them, and they reveled in it.
Look, they said, we can pass this yard-thick bill to take over
healthcare -- without even reading it! What are you going to do?
Think... read more
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Townhall... The US Should Follow
Europe’s Lead, By Paul Driessen
President Obama and environmentalists often say America should follow
Europe’s lead on energy, climate and economic matters. Recent events
suggest that we should listen more attentively to the Europeans. Two
brutal winters have awakened Europe to the fact that global
temperatures stopped rising in 1998 – and that frigid days and nights
pose far graver dangers to the elderly and poor than warm weather... read more
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From
Fox News... DR. MARC
SIEGEL: How I Would Fix Medicare, By Dr. Marc Siegel
Published April 14, 2011 - President Obama made it clear during his
we-need-to-tighten-our-collective-belts speech on Wednesday that he
intends to ask for $480 billion cut from Medicare and Medicaid by 2023
with an approach that is sure to hamstring doctors and frustrate
patients by extending government control and restrictions (aka
rationing). According to the president’s proposal, the Independent
Medicare Advisory Board, which will be formed in 2018, will play an
expanded... read more
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Townhall...
The New Health Law:
Bad for Doctors, Awful for Patients, By Jason Fodeman
While much has been said about the recently passed health care overhaul
law and a multitude of cogent arguments have been made as to why the
legislation must be repealed, lengthy debates have failed to adequately
address how the 2,800 pages will prevent patients from receiving the
medical care that they need and want. In fact, in some ways the federal
government already hinders the ability of doctors to provide their
patients with good care. These trends will no... read more
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Townhall... Top Ten Reasons Why
Sarah Palin is Running For President, by Tony Lee
04/13/2011 - Will she or won’t she run for President? I once laid out
the reasons why Sarah Palin has a better shot of becoming president
than Barack Obama did before Obama announced his candidacy during the
2008 election cycle. And while conventional wisdom among the chattering
class continues to lean against Palin mounting a presidential run,
Palin has been courting the conservative base while not... read more
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Truthout… President Obama’s Real
Proposal (and Why It’s Risky), by Robert Reich
Saturday 16 April 2011 - Paul Ryan says his budget plan will cut $4.4
trillion over ten years. The President says his new plan will cut $4
trillion over twelve years. Let’s get real. Ten or twelve-year budgets
are baloney. It’s hard enough to forecast budgets a year or two into
the future. Between now and 2022 or 2024 the economy will probably have
gone through a recovery (I’ll explain later why I fear it will... read more
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Toledo
Blade... Made-up problems
When Republicans ran for office in Ohio last year, they promised to fix
the state’s ailing economy and put people to work. But now that they
control both chambers of the General Assembly, they seem more intent on
pandering to single-issue constituencies, especially opponents of
abortion rights. Several anti-abortion bills are before lawmakers. One
would require judges to question minors more thoroughly to make sure
they understand the impact of an abortion before... read more
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Dayton
Daily News Editorial... NASA
changed signals on Ohio, Midwest
Thursday, April 14, 2011 - Ohio and Texas politicians have found
something to agree about: NASA should be investigated for its process
for awarding the soon-to-be-retired space shuttles. Hours after the
decision was announced that the Air Force museum in Dayton and the
Johnson Space Center in Houston were among the unhappy losers, U.S.
Sen. Sherrod Brown and U.S. Reps. Mike Turner, Steve Austria, Marcy
Kaptur and Steven LaTourette asked for the GAO... read more
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Townhall...
New Media Catches
Obama Bribing the Fourth Estate, By Howard Rich
For years, America’s left-leaning mainstream media outlets have
belittled and rebuked members of the new media — questioning their
credibility, impugning their integrity and assigning all manner of
self-serving motivations to their contributions to the marketplace of
ideas. In the immediate aftermath of the tragic Tucson shooting earlier
this year, the legacy press took it a step further — essentially
implying that the new media was complicit in the attack on U.S... read more
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Daily Events... Republicans a
Bunch of Wimps
Fridays with Erick Erickson - Forget the oft used analogies of the
“Stupid Party” and “Evil Party.” While the Republicans may still
be stupid and the Democrats evil, it is increasingly clear that the
Republicans are a bunch of wimps. In the past week, Democrats have said
the Republicans want women to die and old people to starve.
They’ve accused the GOP of hurting kids. Barack Obama himself
has... read more
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Toledo
Blade... Foes’ sincerity
on collective-bargaining reform hollow, By Matt Mayer
ADVOCATES of collective-bargaining reform in Ohio, demonized by their
opponents, deserve credit for fighting for the state’s 8.5 million
citizens who don’t work for government or depend on a public paycheck.
They took on Ohio’s Goliath and won Round One. But Round Two is just
beginning. As they have threatened, unions plan to spend $20 million to
repeal the new law in a November referendum. Previous election trends
suggest they will outspend any opposition to win... read more
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Repository
Editorial… Government
quality counts, too
Apr 12, 2011 - The issue: Republicans’ federal budget plan - Our view:
Congress, Obama should take cue from Voinovich’s perspective - As a
U.S. senator from Ohio, George Voinovich proudly called himself a
“deficit hawk.” He didn’t want the federal government to spend a nickel
more than necessary or a nickel more than it had. If only we really
were talking about nickels and not trillions of dollars. But as concern
about deficits grows, President Obama and members of Congress... read more
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Redstate...
Nancy Pelosi Is
Right: Elections Shouldn’t Matter As Much As They do
In an ideal world, of course - Posted by Academic Elephant - Wednesday,
April 13th - Speaking at Tufts University on April 8th, House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi had one of those marvelous moments of
self-revelation in which a usually polished politician speaking
casually and without a script among like-minded friends says what
everyone is thinking–what everyone knows to be true–in this case what
is considered an unquestionable “fact” by their audience. As you can...
read more
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Townhall... Another Spending Cut
Plan, By Thomas Sowell
Since everybody else seems to be coming up with plans on how to cope
with the skyrocketing national debt, let me try my hand at it too. The
liberals’ easy solution is just to increase taxes on “the rich.” But,
if you do the math, there aren’t enough of “the rich” to cover the huge
and record-breaking deficit. Trying to reduce the deficit by cutting
spending runs into an old familiar counter-attack. There will be... read more
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Townhall...
Nuclear Fears and
Facts, By Paul Driessen
The ground hadn’t stopped shaking. Tsunami waters had not receded. And
yet coverage of this awful natural disaster – a scene of almost
unfathomable devastation and death – was already giving way to
single-minded focus on radiation exposure and meltdowns. Addressing
justifiable concerns is essential, to allay fears and refocus attention
on finding the missing, burying the dead, helping 450,000 displaced
people, and rebuilding ravaged communities. Like a third of nuclear
plants... read more
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Redstate...
Children Of The Corn
– How Ethanol Damages America!, Posted by Repair_Man_Jack
Monday, April 11th - The market for ethanol is propped up by the
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a Soviet-style production quota.
Conservatives should be appalled by this reversion to Stalin-era
central planning. Should taxpayers have to subsidize ethanol too? -
(HT: globalwarming.org) - So let’s make a deal! I’ll give you a new
source of fuel that has 1/3 the energy of your gasoline. In return for
that, I’ll dramatically decrease the food supply. As a result of this
screaming bargain... read more
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Townhall... New York Welcomes
the Unhappy Meal, By Julie Gunlock
Parents have many responsibilities. Getting the kids up and ready for
school, making sure they do their homework and practice proper manners.
Parents manage carpools, play-dates and sleepovers; they sooth scraped
knees, bruised heads and injured feelings. But perhaps the most basic
thing a parent does is feed their children. Feeding a child means more
than just spooning mashed... read more
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Fox News Best of Opinion... The
Top 5 Things You Should Never Say to a Pregnant Woman
By Megyn Kelly - Published April 07, 2011 - Here is my list of five
things you should not say to a pregnant woman in ascending order:
Number 5: Don’t tell us how fat or out of shape you feel. We’re packing
at least 25 extra pounds as we deal with nausea, back pain, swelling,
and a host of other unmentionables … and frankly, we just don’t want to
hear it. Number 4: Don’t tell us “it looks like we’re... read more
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Dayton
Daily News Editorial... Boehner
did well for the Republicans
Monday, April 11, 2011 - Speaker John Boehner turned out to be a good
choice to lead his party through the government shutown/budget battle.
He’s a Tea Party guy at heart — if he were just coming on the scene,
that’s how he would align — but he’s been in Washington 20 years. He
knows how to negotiate, how to keep his eye on the big picture, when to
ignore passing flaps. He got through a period of intense media scrutiny
and intense pressure without embarrassing... read more
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Fox
News... The Federal Budget
Crisis Hoax, By Sally Kohn
Published April 06, 2011 - There’s a reason why it’s illegal to
unjustifiably yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater. Motivated by fear,
crowds can do very dangerous things. And yet here we are allowing
Congress to dangerously cut federal spending on which we all rely
because, when Wall Street lobbyists yelled, “Fire!” about the state of
our nation’s budget, we believed them. And now we are letting Congress
literally trample on our future. There is no Social Security crisis.
And the extent of the... read more
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Townhall...
5 Things That Will
Happen To You When America Goes Bankrupt, By John Hawkins
“Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and
ages it is the rule.” -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Does it seem too strong to call the way America deals with its debt
“madness?” If not madness, then what? Denial? An addiction? However you
phrase it, we’re a country that’s in deep trouble, but so many of us
seem unable to deal with it. Liberals in this country, for the most
part, will admit that we’re running up “unsustainable” deficits. Yet,
these same... read more
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Townhall... Hamilton: The
Original Self-Made American Who Also Made a Nation
By Mona Charen - His face adorns the $10 bill, but as Richard
Brookhiser, host of “Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton” (airing on PBS
April 11), finds when conducting a quick street canvas -- many
Americans cannot identify him. “Washington has a monument,” Brookhiser
intones. “Jefferson has a memorial. It’s often said that New York City
is Hamilton’s monument.” That would be more than enough... read more
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Townhall... A Life Lesson,
By Cal Thomas
ARCHBOLD, Ohio -- Here in Middle America, where farmland extends to the
horizon, I pass an inspirational yard sign: “Self-Control: Having a
Life Purpose Bigger Than Self.” It’s a message our representatives in
Washington would do well to learn, especially after months of raucous
partisan bickering that nearly culminated in another “government
shutdown.” Here in Archbold farmers still labor to produce crops... read more
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Akron
Beacon Journal... Political
test
Sunday, Apr 10, 2011 - Local governments must move from turf protection
to consolidation - The central point in testimony delivered last week
by local officials appearing in Columbus for House budget hearings was
made by Larry Long, executive director of the County Commissioners
Association. He pointed to the size of the budget hole in the next two
years, the $8 billion translating roughly into a 17 percent cutback.
Yet local governments face a deeper hit, the tax-sharing fund... read more
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Newsmax...
Media Ignore Obama’s
Flip-Flopping, By Ronald Kessler
Monday, 11 Apr 2011 - Contrary to popular impression, President Barack
Obama has been remarkably consistent: He has consistently presented
major initiatives that have failed and has just as consistently
backtracked on changes he has promised. Obama’s healthcare bill has
turned out to be a disaster, raising costs and driving doctors out of
medicine. His stimulus was a failure, doing little to spur the economy
and adding close to $1 trillion to the national debt... read more
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Toledo
Blade Editorial... No
recall vote
IT DIDN’T take Gov. John Kasich long to alienate a lot of Ohioans. But
that’s not a good enough reason to give disgruntled voters the ability
to recall state officeholders at the drop of a hat. Two Democratic
state lawmakers say they plan to introduce a bill in the Ohio House
this week that would allow election do-overs whenever a few hundred
thousand angry voters are willing to sign a recall petition. The
legislators cite the new state law that limits the
collective-bargaining rights of... read more
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Townhall... Tax-Time Miseries,
By Tom Purcell
Boy, are accountants going through a rough patch now -- even rougher
than we taxpayers are. Despite software that has greatly simplified tax
preparation, American accountants suffer a host of daily aggravations.
They’re responsible for filing on behalf of some 82 million U.S.
taxpayers and for understanding the U.S. tax code’s 5,600
incomprehensible pages, according to AccountingToday.com... read more
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Daily Events... Obama is a genius
Mondays with Tony Lee - Last week I had mentioned that President Obama
was a genius for officially announcing that he would run for reelection
because the mainstream media would put their Obama jerseys on.
Democrats failed to pass a budget while they were in control of
Congress, failed to offer a budget of their own during this cycle, and
failed to give up funding an organization primarily known for... read more
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Townhall...
Barry in the Middle,
By Rich Galen
The deal to head off a government shutdown Friday night got done
because a guy named Barry Jackson said it was done. Not one second
before. I have no - zero - inside info on what in the press world is
known as a “tick-tock” who said what to whom, and when they said it. I
am not one of Barry Jackson’s pals. I’m not even sure who they might
be. But, I have known Barry Jackson for about 15 years and I know this:
He has the ability to focus in on a problem not like a laser... read more
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Dayton
Daily News Editorial... Kasich’s
booze-for-jobs plan is risky, but bold
Sunday, April 10, 2011 - Gov. John Kasich’s plan to use liquor profits
to finance economic development is a bold embrace of big government.
While conservative, anti-big government forces warn that government is
not capable of picking winners in the business marketplace, the
governor is developing an operation to do precisely that — with money
that is now being used on other public purposes. He wants the state in
the venture capital business. He has brought in a... read more
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Redstate...
It’s What Happens
When the Stupid Party and Evil Party Get Together
Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile) - Tuesday, April 12th - There is a
quote out there that sometimes get attributed to Republican Senate
Leader Everett Dirksen and sometimes not. The quote is that there two
parties in Washington — the stupid party and the evil party. Every once
in a while the stupid party and the evil party get together and do
something that is both stupid and evil. In Washington, that is called
bipartisanship. Our United States Senate, led by Republican... read more
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Townhall... Return America to
Main Street, By Star Parker
Although my organization’s home office is in Washington, DC, I log some
150,000 miles a year flying around the country. Traveling back and
forth from the nation’s capital provides good perspective on the bold
contrast between the realities there and the rest of America.
Washington is booming today while working Americans in cities across
the rest of our nation struggle to see the economic light of day... read more
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Townhall... All Quiet on the
Southern Front? By Oliver North
WASHINGTON -- According to Homeland Security Secretary Janet
Napolitano, everything is hunky-dory on America’s southern border. In
her public appearances and speeches, Napolitano consistently claims
that things along our side of the U.S.-Mexico border are “safer than
ever” and that “spillover violence” is simply “a widespread
misperception.” In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed column... read more
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Townhall...
Government Land
Management: A Waste of Green, By Erika Johnsen
If the federal government shuts down this weekend, many outdoor
enthusiasts will be bereft, as the National Parks Service would cease
operations at midnight on Friday. The shutdown would close the gates at
the countless National Parks, including Yosemite, the Everglades, and
Yellowstone. This potential wilderness-lockout begs the question: why
is the federal government managing these parks in the first place? Four
government agencies manage the majority of federal lands... read more
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Columbus
Dispatch... Op Ed:
Evaluation of teachers must improve, By Terry Ryan
Saturday, April 9, 2011 - Effective teachers are the most valuable
education asset that Ohio (or any state) has. Statistics don’t lie when
it comes to their impact on children’s learning. Stanford economist
Eric Hanushek, who recently testified before a joint hearing of the
Ohio House and Senate education committees, reports that “having a
high-quality teacher throughout elementary school can substantially
offset or even eliminate the disadvantage of low socio-economic
background... read more
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Human Events... TSA Follies: See
SPOT Fail, by Michelle Malkin
04/08/2011 - Air traffic controllers have been catching a lot of grief
for sleeping on the job lately. But do you know what Transportation
Security Administration officials have been doing -- or rather, not
doing -- lately? A federal watchdog revealed this week that TSA’s
counterterrorism specialists failed to detect 16 separate jihad
operatives who moved through target airports “on at least 23
different... read more
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Townhall... Reforming Medicare
for the Real World, By Steve Chapman
After House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled a plan to
overhaul Medicare, Democrats announced that despite some imperfections,
it was a brave and thoughtful attempt to grapple with a problem that
has been ignored for too long. Just kidding. They said it was the worst
thing they’ve seen since “Sex and the City 2.” House Democratic leader
Nancy Pelosi accused Ryan of offering “a path to poverty... read more
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Townhall...
More Duplicative,
Wasteful Spending, By Kelly Cobb
For the past decade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has run
the most unlikely of programs: handing out low-interest,
taxpayer-backed loans to companies to build-out broadband Internet.
Today, the program has hundreds of millions in cash – and it’s not the
only pile of taxpayer money the government has to fund broadband
infrastructure. Right now, there is nearly $800 million taxpayer
dollars for broadband development sitting unused and uncommitted in
federal government... read more
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It’s No Deal, It’s a
Sellout, By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Published on DickMorris.com on April 9, 2011 - John Boehner has just
given away the Republican victory of 2010 at the bargaining
table. Like the proverbial Uncle Sam who always wins the war but
loses the peace, he has unilaterally disarmed the Republican Party by
showing that he will not shut down the government and will, instead,
willingly give way on even the most modest of cuts in order to avoid
it. He now has no arrows left in his quiver. Having failed to
stand firm for... read more
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Akron
Beacon Journal Editorial... Energy
void
Published on Monday, Apr 04, 2011 - Another president hurls words at
higher gas prices. Still missing? A concrete strategy for easing our
oil dependence - With oil prices exceeding $100 per barrel and gasoline
at the pump approaching $4 per gallon, the country has performed its
usual fire drill. Consumers howled. Republicans demanded increased
drilling for oil, and President Obama delivered a speech framing a
comprehensive approach to energy. Any likelihood of substantial... read more
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Human Events... EPA’s Cap and
Trade Upheld, Thanks to Obama and Harry Reid
by Emily Miller - 04/07/2011 - President Obama will veto the bill
passed by the Republican House on Thursday, which prevents the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse
emissions. Also on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D.-Nev.) successfully maneuvered to prevent passage of the same
legislation, sponsored by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.)... read more
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Townhall... Paul Ryan’s Growth
Budget, By Larry Kudlow
Of all the discussion about Paul Ryan’s big-bang budget plan, the
element I like best was caught in this Wall Street Journal op-ed title:
“The GOP Path to Prosperity.” In other words, it’s a growth
budget. It has plenty of spending cuts, but it also has significant
pro-growth tax reform. Obsessing over the debt is not by itself a
policy. Advancing the economy and setting the stage for more job
creation... read more
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Redstate...
Obama to Reduce Gas
Prices by Blowing Smoke, Posted by Steve Maley
POTUS announces solution to high gas prices: Unicorn FLATUS - Thursday,
April 7th - Oil and natural gas are our primary transportation fuels,
supplying 97% of the energy (27 quadrillion BTUs!) that we use annually
to move our cars, trucks, buses, boats, planes and trains. The 3% that
comes from renewables is ethanol. Beware the man who tells you he’s
ever going to reduce our oil imports by growing wind and solar energy.
Wind and solar are used to generate electricity... read more
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Townhall...
Dems’ Cheap Stunt
Blocks School Choice in Idaho, By Kyle Olson
If for no other reason, you have to admire the tenacity of some
legislative leaders to look out for the interests of their teacher
union sponsors. The Idaho House of Representatives was debating a bill
that would eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools allowed
in the state when the minority leader, Democrat John Rusche, accused
proponents of an ethical violation. Of what, you ask? They were
reportedly wearing free yellow scarves with the National School Choice
Week... read more
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Fox
News... Do the Math -- Lower
Corporate Tax Rates = More Jobs, Growing Economy
By Rodney P. Mock - April 08, 2011 - The good news came in March. The
February unemployment rate dipped slightly below 9 percent to 8.9
percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, with nonfarm
payroll increasing by 192,000 jobs. But before we pop the Champagne and
toot our patriotic Made-in-China horns we need to keep in mind that
until this latest miniscule decrease, the unemployment rate had held
over 9 percent for a staggering 21 consecutive months... read more
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Townhall... The Truth about
Social Security, By Bruce Bialosky
It should be obvious to every American that our entitlement programs –
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid – now represent the lion’s share
of the Federal budget, and are growing at an unsustainable rate.
Unfortunately, no realistic solution to this fiscal disaster has ever
been seriously evaluated by Congress. Worse, no effort has ever
been made by our leaders to honestly inform Americans of the dire
severity... read more
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Townhall...
Stronger Regulatory
Enforcement Will Spur Small Business Job Creation
By Sam Graves - Small businesses are the cornerstone of the American
economy. They employ over half of the country’s private sector
workforce and create seven out of every ten new jobs. The answer to our
country’s long-term unemployment problem lies in the growth of these
small businesses. They are our job creators, and it is imperative that
we create an economic climate that allows them to thrive.
Unfortunately, the growth of American small businesses... read more
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Townhall...
The Mother of All
Bankruptcies, By John Ransom
The budget problem that the country faces isn’t merely big. It isn’t
even really, really big. It’s much bigger, and more dangerous, in
actual fact, than politicians are willing to acknowledge. Think of the
biggest number you can. Yeah. It’s bigger than that. The Congressional
Budget Office says that if we continue at our current rate of spending,
we’ll “chalk up nearly $7 trillion in red ink over the next 10
years,” according to Reuters. Yawn. Think bigger than that... read more
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Dayton
Daily News Editorial... Loss
of kids shows where the state must focus
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - When the news came that Ohio is losing two
congressional seats because of population changes, some people might
have tried to find comfort in the fact that Ohio’s population is not
really shrinking, but stable. The loss of congressional seats is
happening because the country is growing, and the size of Congress is
fixed by the Constitution. Turns out, though, that the state’s
population stability is only a surface thing. When the news came that
Ohio... read more
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Townhall... Why God Isn’t Doing
Well These Days, By Dennis Prager
God is not doing very well these days. Here are four reasons: The first
is that increasingly large numbers of men and women attend university,
and Western universities have become essentially secular (and leftist)
seminaries. Just as the agenda of traditional Christian and Jewish
seminaries is to produce religious Christians and religious Jews, the
agenda of Western universities... read more
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Daily
Events... Fridays with Eric Erickson: Democrats Need a Shutdown
Editor’s Note: By the
time this is published we will have had a shutdown or we won’t... the
points raised in this brief commentary, however, are still worth noting.
It looks like we are on the verge of a government shutdown. The
Democrats need a shut down. They need to change the message
because right now they are losing. Democrats are getting pasted in the
budget debate generally. They can’t beat the GOP on the argument that
cuts are needed. The Democrats have no plan... read more
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Toledo
Blade Editorial... Ohio
Inc.
When your governor is a former investment banker and his jobs guru is a
venture capitalist, you shouldn’t be surprised when your state starts
to look like a corporation. But when the result is full-speed-ahead
faith in a governance model that looks more like Goldman Sachs than
John Locke, it’s time to slow down and ask whether transforming the
state into Ohio Inc. is a desirable goal. A good place to start would
be Gov. John Kasich’s plan to lease the state’s liquor distribution... read more
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Akron
Beacon Journal Editorial... Ambitious
for Medicaid
Published on Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 - John Kasich wants to save money. He
also has a plan to improve quality and outcomes - If budgets are a
statement of priorities, the first item on John Kasich’s agenda for
Ohio Medicaid is to restructure the delivery and financing of the
program’s services. The goal, as the governor often states, is to
better align services with consumers’ needs. He wants to improve
quality and outcomes and squeeze excess costs in the health program... read more
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Townhall... Political Statistics,
By Thomas Sowell
When someone gives you a check and the bank informs you that there are
insufficient funds, who do you get mad at? In your own life, you get
mad at the guy who gave you a check that bounced, not at the bank. But,
in politics, you get mad at whoever tells you that there is no money.
One of the secrets of the growth of the welfare state is that
politicians get a lot of mileage out of making promises... read more
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New
York Times... Is
Privatization a Bad Deal for Cities and States?
To save money, New York is turning the clock back on outsourcing by
replacing private contractors with city workers. Former Gov. Mario
Cuomo once said, “It is not government’s obligation to provide
services, but to see they’re provided.” He’s right: government workers
don’t need to be the ones providing many services. Government program
budgets are too rarely tied to results, so poor performance is often
perversely rewarded with budget increases... read more
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Redstate...
Ryan’s Budget: The
Excellent, the Good, and the Need for Improvement
Posted by dhorowitz3 - Tuesday, April 5th - Republicans should build
upon Ryan’s diligence to end Democrats’ profligate socialism and expose
them for the true extremists that they are. The moment we have been
anticipating has finally arrived. House Budget Committee Chairman
has released his budget for FY 2012, along with his blueprint for tax
and entitlement reform over the next decade. This budget
proposal, which would cut $5.8 trillion from the CBO baseline... read more
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Townhall... America Badly Needs
Leaders, By Star Parker
As negotiations in Washington on this year’s budget (already halfway
into the year that this budget is for) come to a head, the rumor mill
points to a Washington-as-usual result. That is, split the
differences down the middle. But, as King Solomon taught us, resolving
a dispute by splitting the difference is not always a sign of virtue.
Republicans want to cut $61 billion from a budget of almost $4
trillion... read more
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Budget War: No
Retreat, No Surrender, By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
Published on DickMorris.com on April 4, 2011 - It is a stupid, false
choice to say that the Republicans in the House have either to accept
the split-the-difference compromise proposed by the Senate on the
Continuing Resolution battle or shut down the entire federal
government. Nonsense! Instead, the Republicans should refuse to
accept less than $61 billion in cuts and -- if the Senate... read more
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Townhall...
Bureaucrats vs.
Entrepreneurs, By John C. Goodman
I used to think the biggest obstacle to getting agreement about health
care reform was ideology (socialism vs. capitalism). Then I decided it
was sociology (engineers vs. economists). I now am inclined to believe
it is psychology (bureaucrats vs. entrepreneurs). I came to this
realization after reading through a long list of comments to a Health
Alert I posted the other day about a health care entrepreneur (more on
that below). The entrepreneurial approach is the way we are trying... read more
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Townhall...
Cornered By Obama,
By Michael Gerson
WASHINGTON -- If there were any doubts about the political skills of
the new White House team under Chief of Staff William Daley, they have
now been satisfied. Recently, the Congressional Budget Office reported
that President Obama’s budget had underestimated the deficit over the
next 10 years by $2.3 trillion. Deficits will exceed 4 percent of GDP
each year, with the federal debt eventually rising to 87 percent of the
total economy. Obama’s budget plans... read more
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Townhall... Love Oil And It
Loves You Back, By Katie Kieffer
Listening to morning shows is a good way to wind up in a psychiatrist’s
office. I flip between 300 channels and have three basic choices: Bad
economic news, high-profile violence or cotton candy interviews with
reality stars. I try switching to Twitter and a trending topic is a
cobra that escaped from the Bronx Zoo. I almost choke on my Pop-Tart.
I’m tired of negative news and hearing people whine without... read more
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Townhall Magazine... Libelous
Left Shows True Colors during Wisconsin Protests
By Mary Katharine Ham - Threats. Violence. Racism. Extremist rhetoric.
Liberal activists are doing exactly what the Left and the media falsely
accused the tea partiers of doing. A child’s handwritten sign that
reads “We hate Scott Wacre” is seen taped to a wall in the rotunda
during protests against budget cuts proposed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott
Walker, R, at the state Capitol... read more
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Townhall...
What the Census Does
and Doesn’t Do to Politics, By Salena Zito
On a frigid February morning, the Census Bureau delivered chilling news
to the mayors of New York, Detroit and Chicago. A big chunk of each
city’s black population had packed up and left. They took with them
political clout, congressional seats, and the federal funding for
roads, bridges, schools and other public services, on which big cities
depend. After reviewing the numbers and calculating the impact, New
York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, led the chorus on... read more
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Townhall... In Search of the
Obama Doctrine, By Michael Gerson
WASHINGTON -- The search for an Obama Doctrine that unites and
motivates his foreign policy hasn’t turned up much. The administration
itself is dismissive of the idea of grand strategy, stating a
preference for flexibility over coherence. Supporters praise Barack
Obama’s subtlety and nuance, invariably contrasting them to the
simplistic certainties of George W. Bush. Obama’s fogginess, in this
view... read more
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Townhall... ‘No Blood for Oil’
Is for Sale! By Debra J. Saunders
“No blood for oil” was a popular slogan chanted by the left in
opposition to President George W. Bush’s push to send U.S. forces into
Iraq. Now that President Obama authorized Operation Odyssey Dawn in
Libya, I have been waiting to hear chants of “no blood for oil.” I am
happy to report, I don’t hear them. I went to the nobloodforoil.org
website; its lead item opposes efforts to strike... read more
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Columbus
Dispatch Editorial... Paying
to play
School sports will rely more than ever on boosters, volunteers -
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - Public-school officials wrestling with
squeezed budgets face a special challenge when it comes to
interscholastic sports. They’re outside the core academic mission of
public schools, but for many students and parents they’re an essential
part of the school experience. Often, school sports are the greatest
source of pride for students and their best chance to be involved... read more
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Redstate...
Let’s get serious
about domestic energy, by Senator David Vitter
Thursday, March 31st - In his speech at Georgetown University this
week, President Obama acknowledged the alarming increases in prices at
the gas pump, which in many states are approaching $4 per gallon.
The president restated some vague platitudes about the need to reduce
our dependence on foreign oil, but offered no concrete plans to rein in
those prices, which are putting a strain on family budgets across the
country. On his recent trip to South America... read more
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Townhall... Balanced Budget
Amendment Vital to America’s Future, By Ken Klukowski
On Mar. 31, Senators Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee introduced a Balanced
Budget Amendment (BBA) to make it a constitutional requirement for
Washington, D.C., to end our deficit spending and culture of debt. And
our national grassroots organization, Pass the Balanced Budget
Amendment, is working with them to compel lawmakers to approve this
change to the Supreme Law of the Land... read more
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Townhall... School Choice: A
Real Test Awaits, By Ed Feulner
Imagine you could buy a car at only one dealership. Shop for clothes at
only one outlet. Buy food at only one grocery store. What kind of
service would you expect? Mediocre at best. Which isn’t surprising. We
all know competition promotes quality. When you can shop wherever you
please, merchants know the only way to woo your business is to offer a
superior product. So if the rule applies... read more
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Townhall...
Wisconsin Judicial
Tyranny, By Kyle Olson
Why did the state of Wisconsin bother to have an election last
November? To look at the results, you would think the voters had spoken
clearly. They elected a Republican governor and legislature, based on
the promise that they would take strong action to balance the state
budget and give schools and municipalities more control over their
local budgets. Within a few weeks of taking office, the Republicans
followed through on their promise... read more
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Community colleges
are the cornerstone of health-care education, Commentary
By Lou Oberndorf
Published March 30, 2011 - When President Barack Obama recently
described community colleges as an “under-appreciated asset in the
country” and announced his goal to increase the total number of
community college graduates by five million by 2020, he turned the
spotlight on a sector of higher education that has often been viewed as
the stepchild of the higher-education system. Of course, the opposite
is true. The American community college system is, in fact, the envy...
read more
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Daily Events... Winning the
Future, By Erick Erickson
This is not what winning the future looks like. Yes, it is
true. Today unemployment has fallen to a two year low —
8.8%. That is the good news. The bad news is that the
number of people who have been unemployed for more than 26 weeks has
hit an all time high according to CNBC contributor James Pethokoukis.
Made worse, wage growth in the United States last quarter has lagged
inflation... read more
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Human Events... All 47 GOP
Senators Co-Sponsor New Balanced Budget Amendment
by Emily Miller - 03/31/2011 - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R.-Ky.) announced Thursday afternoon that all 47 Republican Senators
have co-sponsored a “consensus Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution,” HUMAN EVENTS learned exclusively. This year’s budget
deficit is projected to be $1.6 trillion, and the national debt is
currently $14.1 trillion... read more
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Redstate...
On Ethanol,
Conservatives Should Stand With Tom Coburn, Posted by
Erick Erickson
Tuesday, March 29th - Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Ben Cardin (D-MD)
are out to get rid of the ethanol subsidy. The subsidy was put into the
tax code to make it much harder to get rid of. How much harder? Well,
according to Grover Norquist, if we get rid of the ethanol subsidy, we
are raising taxes. I’ve written before how Grover Norquist gets lots of
money from groups that lobby for special tax treatment and then, when
Congress attempts to get rid of the special tax... read more
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Redstate...
On Intervention and
Opposition to the Libyan Engagement, Posted by Erick
Erickson
Tuesday, March 29th - Using the same rationale George W. Bush used to
go into Iraq, Barack Obama has now gone into Libya. It seems that the
world is upside down. Suddenly Republicans are concerned about going
into a Middle Eastern country and Democrats are gung-ho neocon
warmongers. The situation, of course, is not that simple. Whether you
think he lied, was misled, or was right, George W. Bush did make a case
to Congress and the American people prior... read more
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Townhall... Equipping Children
With Spiritual and Political Armor, By David Limbaugh
As my friends’ kids leave the nest for their first year away at
college, I think of the monolithic ideas with which they will surely be
bombarded in an environment that is supposed to expose them to a
variety of ideas. Are they prepared to resist the seductive but
destructive message? Liberal elites have dominated most university
faculties for years, but it seems they’ve become bolder... read more
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Measuring Obama’s
Speech, by Newt Gingrich
Monday morning, I posted to Facebook a five question checklist by which
to measure President Obama’s speech on our military engagement in
Libya. Here is my analysis of how effectively the president answered
those questions: Does President Obama cite working with Congress more
than working with the Arab League or the United Nations? No. President
Obama mentioned Congress just once in a 3,400 word speech. In
contrast, he mentioned the United Nations... read more
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Congressman
Campbell’s Laptop to Yours, By John Campbell
Monday, March 28, 2011 - $4/gallon, $4.50/gallon, $5/gallon or More - I
was home in California last week and I paid $4.29 for premium fuel
while I was there. And, as I write this, the price of oil is still
rising. $4.50 or $5.00 per gallon of gas is certainly in sight and
possible. And, remember that the price of oil is denominated in
dollars, but it is a world market. So, when the value of the dollar
drops, as it is doing now due to printing money and deficits and
such... read more
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Townhall... Full-Throttle Drill,
Drill, Drill, by Larry Kudlow
If you buy into the energy speech President Obama delivered on
Wednesday, it sure sounds like we’re headed for drill, drill, drill. It
would be a total reversal of policy. I guess $100-plus oil and near $4
gas at the pump -- along with a consumer economic-political revolt --
will do that to you. After bashing oil and gas companies for a couple
of years and instituting a virtual drilling moratorium, President
Obama... read more
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Obama on the Hook,
By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
With each of his policies, Obama takes a gamble. If they work,
he’s OK. If they don’t, he’s on the hook for the outcome.
Consider the extent of his exposure - His involvement in Libya makes
him responsible if Gaddafi stays in power and slaughters his own people
and/or renews his connections with international terrorism. Obama will
be equally responsible should... read more
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Townhall...
FDA Headbangs With
Condoms, Not Cigs, By Katie Kieffer
If young people have casual sex, they’re rock stars, as long as they
use condoms. If they casually smoke cigarettes, they’re borderline
criminals. According to the FDA, that is. The FDA takes a hypocritical
and overly invasive stance on two adult products: Condoms and
cigarettes. The FDA’s inconsistent and excessive regulation of these
adult products hurts free enterprise and represents an inappropriate
extension of government in our daily lives... read more
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Redstate...
US Allies With Al
Qaeda In Libya, Posted by streiff (Profile)
Sunday, March 27th - Did. Not. See. This. Coming. - As we’ve noted over
the past weeks, we know precious little about the alleged “rebels” on
whose behalf we’ve intervened in Libya. Now a little more information
is available: In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24
Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited “around 25″ men from
the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in
Iraq. Some of them, he said, are “today are on the front... read more
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Townhall... How Awful Is GE?
By Mona Charen
April 18 looms like a specter at this time of year, casting a pall over
the forsythia and daffodils that coax us to be cheerful. Like a sick
child who longs to play outside on a sunny day but must remain
confined, we itemizers are chained to desks or dining-room tables
littered with receipts, calendars, checkbook registers, and credit card
statements for the annual spring ordeal... read more
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Townhall... Voting with Their
Feet, By Thomas Sowell
The latest published data from the 2010 census show how people are
moving from place to place within the United States. In general, people
are voting with their feet against places where the liberal,
welfare-state policies favored by the intelligentsia are most deeply
entrenched. When you break it down by race and ethnicity, it is all too
painfully clear what is happening. Both whites and blacks are
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