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If “Buckwheat” is Not Racist, Let’s See What Happens if Glenn Beck Says It (Experimentally, of Course)

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A self-described "progressive liberal" elected official (as opposed to a conservative liberal, I suppose) called a black conservative tea party activist "buckwheat" in a public Facebook discussion Saturday. The term "buckwheat" is sufficiently known to be racially derogatory that there ...
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Project 21’s Deneen Borelli Speaks Out on Wisconsin’s Budget Crisis, Protests

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Three times this past weekend, Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli appeared on the Fox News Channel to discuss and debate Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to solve his state’s budget deficit crisis through moderate reform of the collective bargaining process ...
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Next Time You See a Union Flack on TV Saying Teachers Unions Fight for Kids…

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Remember this: MILWAUKEE -- Some Milwaukee Public School teachers are fighting to get Viagra and other erectile dysfunction medications covered under their medical benefits. But in a time of deep teacher and budget cuts, parents of students in the district ...
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Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Government Employee Unions

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A poll indicates that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is not going far enough. There is substantial public support for ending all public sector unionism. A Feb. 4-8, 2011 poll by the nonpartisan Clarus Research Group reveals that only 29% of ...
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Text of FDR Letter Opposing Public Employee (Government) Unions

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like the overwhelming majority of Americans today, opposed public sector unions. See below the full text of FDR's letter to Luther C. Steward, President of the National Federation of Federal Employees, of August 16, 1937. My dear ...
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Deneen Borelli of Project 21 Discusses Wisconsin Unrest on Fox News This Weekend

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Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli is scheduled to appear on two Fox News Channel programs on Saturday, February 19 to discuss the stand-off in Wisconsin over reforming the benefits plan for many state government employees. See Deneen in segments currently ...
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Read the Name on Your Door Next Time

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The above is just a little advice for officials of the ironically-named Office of Law Enforcement over at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which itself is part of ...
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The Food Police Just Won’t Quit

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I sometimes wonder whether they want to ban sodas — one ingredient at a time. If it isn’t your favorite no-calorie sweetener, like Splenda, Nutrasweet, or Acesulfame K, it is the full-calorie high fructose corn syrup. But today, it was ...
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Appetite For Regulating

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The regulators just can’t help themselves.  They find a problem, pass regulations and only later do they bother to do the science to see if the regulation will be effective. The latest example comes today, with the report of yet ...
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Don’t Cry for TAA — There’s Plenty More Where That Came From

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February 12 came and went without a reauthorization of the current federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program. So it’s gone, right?  Wrong. Even as ABC News portrayed the current status of TAA as Congress telling unemployed Americans “tough luck,” Howard Rosen of ...
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