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Poll: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Winning Labor, Budget Fight
Tweet Share on Facebook February 25, 2011 Comment (51)A poll of Wisconsin voters released Thursday finds more of them support Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed reforms than oppose them.
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Wisconsin Senate Democrats Offer a Profile in Cowardice
Tweet Share on Facebook February 24, 2011 Comment (22)There should be a committee whose job it is to hand out awards recognizing political courage and cowardice in the face of difficult times. If one did exist, it would no doubt award the 2011 “Yellow Feather” to the Democrats in the Wisconsin state senate who, confronted with legislation that would damage the political power of their principal special interest patrons, promptly decamped to Illinois and brought the legislative process to a halt.
This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, democracy’s finest moment.
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House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood Over Abortion
Tweet Share on Facebook February 18, 2011 Comment (23)Late Friday the U.S. House of Representatives voted to add to the continuing resolution that would fund the U.S. government through September 2011 a measure that “zeros out” federal funding for Planned Parenthood which, by some estimates, is the nation’s largest provider of abortion.
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Greenpeace Launches Unfounded Attack on the Koch Brothers
Tweet Share on Facebook February 18, 2011 Comment (18)It was the late Saul Alinsky who developed the tactics the modern left so often uses when engaged in political conflicts. As he used to advise it was always important to “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it.”
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It's George Washington's Birthday, Not Presidents' Day
Tweet Share on Facebook February 16, 2011 Comment (1)It’s that time of year again. Presidents' Day, an annual excuse for a three-day weekend and a white sale, is upon us.
It wasn’t always that way. Back when children believed the future president chopped down his father’s cherry tree, George Washington was revered. Now, after several decades of increasing political correctness, the sense of reverence we once felt for our nation’s founders has diminished to the point where some people find the mere idea of it laughable.
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Endless Spending, Deficits Mean Obama's Budget Is Dead on Arrival
Tweet Share on Facebook February 16, 2011 Comment (4)President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year is, to put it mildly, a flop. It spends too much, borrows too much, and passes along too much debt to our children and grandchildren.
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New Push to Defund the Stimulus
Tweet Share on Facebook February 15, 2011 Comment (7)Newly-minted U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy, backed by a broad-based coalition of conservative organizations, is, on behalf of the U.S. taxpayers, trying to recover the remaining unspent money from the Obama stimulus plan.
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GOP's Walden Pushes to Repeal FCC's Net Neutrality Policy
Tweet Share on Facebook February 11, 2011 Comment (8)At the end of January, on a 3-to-2 party-line vote, the Federal Communications Commission agreed to impose the first-ever government regulations on the Internet.
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Rep. Steve King Pushes Plan to Defund Obamacare
Tweet Share on Facebook February 11, 2011 Comment (20)Central to the GOP’s effort to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives was its promise to repeal Obamacare and, failing that, to defund it.
Having carried through on the first part of its promise—the House voted overwhelmingly to repeal the whole kit and caboodle—the Republicans are now developing a plan to cut off funding for the new national healthcare bureaucracy as part of the continuing resolution to fund the U.S. government that is expected on the floor next week.
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Gov. Rick Scott's Florida Budget a Tea Party Dream
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2011 Comment (15)In an election full of surprises, one of the biggest was the election of businessman Rick Scott as governor of Florida.
Coming out of nowhere, Scott—who had previously been active in the fight against nationalized healthcare—bested two statewide elected officials on his way to winning the top office in the nation’s third largest state. What is even more surprising is that Scott, having promised to govern as a consistent conservative, appears to be doing just that on the basis of his just-introduced 2011 budget.
