Month: February 2011

President’s Day Round-Up

Even AdNags thinks the Republicans are exaggerating their mandate. You think? Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal is pretending that moderate Wisconsin Republicans are offering a reasonable compromise by sunsetting the loss of...

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Screwed So Long They Can’t See Straight

It seems like everyone is piling on public service unions, even some people who might surprise you. One of the common criticisms is that the unions have too much clout with politicians. If that is the case, then why are a bunch...

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What Kind of Victory is This?

Paul Kane of the Washington Post repeats the common wisdom. For Boehner, Saturday’s vote marked an early political victory, allowing his party to honor a 2010 campaign pledge to trim spending to 2008 levels....

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Unions = Higher Productivity

It has been wonderful to see the support going out to the public employees’ unions in Wisconsin. The Teaparty, Governor Walker and the powers that be have seen fit to attack collective bargaining rights and have, in...

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Missing the Forest

I am sympathetic to Frank Rich’s point, but he’s simply wrong about this: If the right puts its rabid Obama hatred on the down-low, what will — or can — conservatism stand for instead? The only apparent agendas are...

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