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No Boo-Hoo-Hoo for California’s Money Woes, If It Can Still Afford Public Parties

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California's free-spending ways have led it to seek the money of federal taxpayers, but don't think that means Los Angeles is trying to stop spending money on frivolities. The city intends to spend a million dollars on a victory parade ...
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Backyard Puddles to be Regulated by Feds?

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The American Farm Bureau is reporting, correctly, that if the Clean Water Restoration Act (Senator Russ Feingold's S.787) becomes law, the federal government will claim the authority to regulate "all water" in the United States. "S. 787 would remove any ...
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CBO: Kennedy’s Health Care Bill Would Increase Deficit by $1.0 Trillion from 2010-2019

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The Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation staff released this evening (PDF) a "preliminary analysis" of Title I of the draft of the Affordable Health Choices Act, which was created by Democrats on the Senate Committee on Health, ...
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Raising Taxes by the Mile

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Project 21's Ak'Bar Shabazz has an op-ed opposing a new federal tax on driving in Sunday's Washington Examiner. It begins: During the 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama endeared himself to many voters with a promise that 95 percent of Americans ...
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Universal Health Care Immoral?

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Smart Girl Nation examines the question: Is universal health care a moral issue? Kimberly Moore says "yes," and adds, "the United States already has a universal health care plan. It is Medicaid and Medicare." ...
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George Will’s Dirty Little Secrets of Universal Health Care

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Writing on Newsbusters, Noel Sheppard does us the service of transcribing George Will's dirty little secrets of universal health care from today's broadcast of ABC's "This Week." Worth reading (or viewing, as the post contains a link to the video) ...
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Outrage of the Day: Pork in the Health Care Bill

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A liberal crusade for decades has been the transfer of the U.S. health care system to government hands. So when the liberals are about to make their most serious run at their cherished prize in 16 years, you'd think they'd ...
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Clean Water Restoration Act Scheduled for Senate Committee Vote June 18

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An important message from National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow R.J. Smith on the Clean Water Restoration Act, which is less about protecting our nation's waters and more about expanding the federal government's power to regulate private property ...
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Game, Set and Match to the Heritage Foundation

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The National Resources Defense Council has attempted to undermine the credibility of the Heritage Foundation's analysis on the cost of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade global warming bill. The NRDC would have done itself a favor to stay home from work that ...
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In London…

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...it's the 1970s once again.: "" It's a shame so many innocent commuters and businesses are going to be hurt by the London Underground (subway) strike. On a more positive note, perhaps the strike will help bring the world another ...
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