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Why the Supreme Court Will Rule in Favor of Gay Marriage
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2012 CommentThe justices read the election returns, or so goes the legal proverb about the Supreme Court. In this case they might have also looked at the Election Day national exit poll which showed that a plurality (49 percent to 46 percent) of voters favored gay marriage. Maine, Washington, and Maryland became the first states where voters legalized gay marriage themselves.
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Is Boehner Pushing Off a Fiscal Cliff Deal to Save His Own Skin?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2012 CommentWhile the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee said this morning that a deal has to be cut by Christmas in order to avoid the fiscal cliff, he added that House Speaker John Boehner may be planning to push the country over that pecuniary precipice in order to save his own political skin.
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NFL Should Punish Masterminds of Saints' 'Bounty' Program
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2012 CommentThere's a reason why sports metaphors are used to describe developments in a war, and war metaphors are used to describe developments in sports. Turning a war into a game helps mitigate the very real and devastating violence in armed conflicts. And assigning war talk to games with controlled violence amps up the conflicts on the field or in an arena.
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Snyder Unfairly Demonizes Michigan Unions With 'Right to Work' Laws
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2012 CommentDespite the objections of thousands of people who packed the capitol in Lansing, Mich., yesterday, Michigan's Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed two bills into law which sharply limit labor rights. Amidst those chanting, "Shame on you!" from the gallery, the governor moved his pen in support of this passage, which narrowly won by seven votes in the Republican-led state legislature. The uproar is about a ban on workplace rules that makes union membership a condition of employment for government workers. A second bill was also passed, by six votes, which also covers private-sector workers. The new rules will most likely take effect in late March in what was one of the country's most union friendly states. It now will be No. 24 on the list of "right to work" states in the United States.
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North Carolina 'Choose Life' Plates Don't Violate First Amendment
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2012 CommentA Reagan-appointed judge in North Carolina has ruled that the state's "Choose Life" license plates are unconstitutional and has issued a permanent injunction preventing them from being issued to motorists.
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Nikki Haley Should Trust South Carolinians to Replace Jim DeMint
Tweet Share on Facebook December 11, 2012 CommentIn as much as any one man or woman can be to conservatives, retiring South Carolina GOP Sen. Jim DeMint was indispensible and irreplaceable.
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'Twinkie Defense' Keeps Fat Recruits Out of the Military
Tweet Share on Facebook December 11, 2012 CommentOnly in America could the so-called "Twinkie Defense" merge with the conscientious objector argument to address the unique issues of the 21st century.
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Two Insightful New Books on America's Forgotten History
Tweet Share on Facebook December 11, 2012 CommentSome decades are better than others. And history is everything they never told you. I take these truths to be self-evident.
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Current Tax System Distorts Americans' View of Cost of Government
Tweet Share on Facebook December 11, 2012 CommentLast week on the Thomas Jefferson Street blog, I discussed the counterintuitive (and unintended) consequences that insulating people from the true cost of government can have. Most Republicans view low taxes as creating an upper bound on the growth of government, figuring that without added revenue, there's a limit to the number of new programs and benefits that can be offered. Yet history shows us that this isn't always the case.
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Pushing STEM Over Liberal Arts Education Is Just Bad Business
Tweet Share on Facebook December 10, 2012 CommentIt's distressing enough that the business model is increasingly dictating the way we operate schools. But it's getting worse with the push to impose a business model on education and learning themselves.
