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Union Leaders at IRS Targeted Tea Party

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Public sectors union leaders put their fat salaries and peace of mind ahead of their union members and you the taxpayer. It’s time to cut the fat. IRS agents were taking cues from union leaders when they decided to target the Tea Party, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell charged on Friday. “When the head of […]

States Increase Budgets After Windfall

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States have increased their budgets after a one-time windfall drove tax revenues higher. Unfortunately, this one time revenue surge will likely become the new baseline and states will be forced to choose between sustaining their new levels of spending by increasing taxes next year and cutting spending. The better move for these states would have […]

Obamacare: Trust but Don’t Verify

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With the Health and Human Services Department ignoring its rules for when businesses must report their employees’ insurance status to the government, the Obama administration is also ignoring the verification process that is supposed to prevent Americans who already have insurance from getting subsidies. Needless to say, that’s not how Obamacare was initially sold to […]

Fortifying Your Garage

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What’s the downside of having a bike in the garage? Mine comes in handy when the summer traffic creates grid-lock in the narrow streets of Newport, RI. It’s a cheap way to travel too. Tom Vanderbilt writes in The Wall Street Journal  about cargo bikes. ON A RECENT SUNDAY, Brandon Jones, a 44-year-old fund manager […]

Judicial Nomination Showdown in Tennessee

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Gov. Haslam of Tennessee should exercise his authority under a 2009 amendment to judicial nomination law and appoint a judge himself when Justice Janice Holder retires in 2014. He should resist the trial bar’s attempt to insert itself into the nomination process. Collin Levy explains why at The Wall Street Journal. In February, the state […]

Obama’s Energy Defeatism

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Pete Du Pont explains in The Wall Street Journal that human ingenuity will beat defeatism from the left, including President Obama who tries to scare Americans with dire energy prophesies. While fossil fuels will be our primary energy sources for several decades, we need progress in renewables so they can eventually supplant today’s fossil fuels. […]

Obama Can’t Lower Unemployment

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The failed policies of President Obama are nowhere more visible than in the persistently high unemployment rates, which today, nearly four and half years after his inauguration, is still at 7.6%. Matt Berman details the report at National Journal. Not everything is perfect, of course: 7.6 percent unemployment is still rather dreary, and the number […]

Obamacare Not Ready for Primetime

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The Obamacare law was a failure to begin with, and as Nancy Pelosi said, we’d have to pass it before we could see what was in it. Now America is getting the picture. Obamacare isn’t ready for prime time, and should be repealed. Louise Radnofsky reports in The Wall Street Journal on the Obama administration’s […]

Americans Exercise their Right to Carry

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Americans are increasingly exercising their right to carry a firearm, and soon residents of Illinois will have the same rights as other Americans to do so after the Supreme Court mandated the state come up with a plan to allow concealed carry. The Wall Street Journal’s Jack Nicas and Ashby Jones detail the explosion in […]

No Hope that Egypt’s Islamists Will Fade Away Quietly

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The Washington Post explains that even though the military has come out on the side of the secularists, Egypt’s Islamist government, and its vast number of supporters, have no intention standing down. Defiant Egyptian Islamists held large demonstrations after midday prayers Friday to mobilize support for deposed president Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first democratically elected […]