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What Conservatives Think #030104: Employment: Is Bush Trying to Eliminate Overtime?

The Left Says: "As early as March 2004, President George W. Bush could take away working people's hard-fought 40-hour workweek and overtime -- with no meaningful increased flexibility to help workers balance demands of jobs and family." Source: "Overtime Pay ...
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Continental Shelf’s Energy Riches a Potential Bonanza for Cash-Strapped States

National Policy Analysis #507 /
Good ideas from Washington are about as common as World Series appearances by the Chicago Cubs or the Boston Red Sox. But while the hapless Cubs and Red Sox will have to wait another season (or more) for their day ...
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Legal Briefs #39 – February 26, 2004

The new Stella Awards have been announced. Randy Cassingham, creator of the annual Stella Awards for most ridiculous lawsuits of the year, has just announced his 2003 awardees. #8 is Stephen Joseph of San Francisco, who earned national ridicule for ...
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What Conservatives Think #021304: Employment: Is Bush Trying to Push Jobs Overseas?

The Left Says: "The economy has hemorrhaged 2.8 million manufacturing jobs since President Bush took office. And the Administration thinks that's just ducky... The rationale, as explained by White House economist Gregory Mankiw, is that shipping jobs overseas is simply ...
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The Senate Won’t Police Itself: Justice Department Probe of Unethical Senate Conduct Sought

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In response to allegations of unethical conduct among U.S. senators - including the possible exchange of votes for campaign contributions - The National Center for Public Policy Research has joined other organizations in asking the U.S. Department of Justice's Public ...
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Departure Statement of Manuel Miranda

Departure Statement of Manuel A. Miranda Today I announce my departure as Counsel to the Senate Majority Leader, Dr. Bill Frist. I have departed so as not to distract the Leader from pursuing a needed legislative agenda for the American ...
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What Conservatives Think #020604: Social Security: Is New York Times Right to Call the President’s Plan “Terrifying”

The Left Says: "[President Bush's] decision [in his State of the union address] to re-endorse the Social Security overhaul plan from his last campaign was terrifying. Mr. Bush has long advocated that younger workers be allowed to set aside part ...
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Daily Life: Is Our Economy a Scandal?

What Conservatives Think /
The Left Says: "The scandal of our time is that with all the explosion of technology and productivity the average American is not working fewer hours and making more money. We are not down to a thirty-hour week. The middle ...
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What Conservatives Think #012604: Civil Rights: Should Government Make Sure Women are Paid as Much as Men?

The Left Says: "It is ever so Out these days to raise a peep about discrimination against women. If you are so unfashionable as to complain, you are promptly labeled a whiner. Hip young post-feminists will advise you to get ...
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What Conservatives Think #012304: Environment: Are Conservatives “Un-American” on Global Warming?

The Left Says: "[Global warming] is a real problem. You can say that it isn't. You can say it over and over again. It is a real problem, and it is a problem that is getting worse because we failed ...
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