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Robert Barro | Unions vs. the Right to Work There is evidence that right-to-work laws—or, more broadly, the pro-business policies offered by right-to-work states—matter for economic growth. In research published in 2000, economist Thomas Holmes of the University of Minnesota compared counties close to the border between states with and without right-to-work laws (thereby holding [...]

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David Brooks | Run Mitch, Run

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Politico | Mittens Proud of Romneycare Mitt Romney rejected Mike Huckabee’s call for him to admit that the “RomneyCare” health care program failed, instead saying he’s “proud” of “getting everyone covered” when he was governor of Massachusetts. “Mitt Romney is proud of what he accomplished for Massachusetts in getting everyone covered,” Romney’s spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, [...]

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Politico | Huckster: ‘RomneyCare’ Makes Me Sick In his new book, Mike Huckabee trashes “RomneyCare” – saying it’s “socialized medicine” that has exploded costs, worsened care for patients, and proves why President Obama’s unpopular health care reform won’t work. In a chapter in “A Simple Government,” Huckabee uses Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health care program to [...]

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DFP | Prepare for more pain at the pump -

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NYT | Union Bonds in Wisconsin Begin to Fray: Across Wisconsin, residents like Mr. Hahan have fumed in recent years as tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs have vanished, and as some of the state’s best-known corporations have pressured workers to accept benefit cuts…. a simmering resentment over those lost jobs and lost benefits in [...]

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Maggie Haberman | Huckabee throws a Mitt Fit Mike Huckabee may be especially tempted to run in 2012 by a lingering feud between him and Mitt Romney, a severe hangover from the 2008 campaign that has created a lasting and bitter rift between the two, Republicans who know both men say. “[Huckabee] hates Mitt, and [...]

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Robert Costa | Walker Holds His Ground Hundreds of protesters continue to occupy the capitol, and 14 Democratic state senators remain roosted in Illinois, stalling consideration of his budget-repair bill. But Gov. Scott Walker, a first-term Republican, tells National Review Online that he will not blink. “By the end of this week, we will have a [...]

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Rasmussen | Obama Approval Back to 44% The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18 (see trends). Yesterday and [...]

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UK Daily Mail | Muammar Gaddafi Flees Tripoli Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to have fled the capital Tripoli after anti-government demonstrators breached the state television building and set government property alight. Protesters appear to have gained a foothold in Tripoli as banks and government buildings were looted while demonstrators have claimed they have [...]

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Josh Kosman | Romney’s Past is More a Working Class Zero Likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been out on the pre-campaign trail this month saying he is the man to get Americans back to work, despite a spotty jobs record while on Wall Street. However, the former private equity firm chief’s fortune — [...]

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C. Edmund Wright | End Public Sector Unions…Period It’s about time.  I’ve been waiting for this debate to mature for 15 years. The battles in Wisconsin and New Jersey over public sector union benefits are merely financial precursors to a much bigger ideological war that has been on the horizon now for years, if not [...]

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Jeffrey H. Anderson | A Historic Flood of Red Ink After proposing his third straight budget calling for more than $1 trillion in deficit spending—no other president has ever proposed even half that much (although, in his last year, President George W. Bush did end up spending that much)—President Obama complained to reporters, “You guys [...]

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UK Daily Mail | China Cracks Down on Pro-Democracy Protests

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Ed Morrissey | Pictorial: Protest Saturday in Wisconsin

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Washington Examiner | Battle of Wisconsin Threatens Unions’ Political Might Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker – elected last November along with GOP majorities in both chambers of the state’s legislature — wants his state’s public employees to contribute half the cost of their pensions — up from zero — and about one-eighth of the cost [...]

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CNN | Democrat Governor Authorizes Wolf Kills: Entire packs of endangered gray wolves may be killed under new directives from Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Schweitzer ordered wildlife officers not to investigate or prosecute ranchers who shoot wolves that attack livestock, and he authorized the killing of entire packs that endanger livestock or elk. The Democratic [...]

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Wall Street Journal | Athens in Mad Town: A Seminal Showdown Between Public Unions and Taxpayers For Americans who don’t think the welfare state riots of France or Greece can happen here, we recommend a look at the union and Democratic Party spectacle now unfolding in Wisconsin. Over the past few days, thousands have swarmed [...]

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Robin of Berkeley | Liberalism and the Fear of Death

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Mark Levin | Christie continues dissembling about Obamacare

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AP | CIA: If caught, bin Laden would be sent to Gitmo

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Larry Hannan | Rick Scott Refuses Federal Funds for High-Speed Railway

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John Hayward | The Wisconsin Showdown – Teachers Unions Demonstrate Why They Must be Broken

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AP | Clothing prices to rise 10 percent starting in spring

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NPR | Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood To Form Political Party

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Fox News | House Prepares to Chop Spending for Remainder of 2011

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Emily Miller | Paul Ryan: Obama’s Budget Is ‘Debt on Arrival’ – “This is not a moderating budget.  This is not a triangulation budget.  This is a budget that went to the left.”

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American Thinker | Joshua Goldberg, R.I.P.  - “Josh quietly edited the sites Lucianne.com, BlogsLucianneLoves, and The Connection, working mostly behind the scenes. That was his way.”

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Kathryn Nix | ObamaCare and the States: Freedom To Do What Sebelius Tells Them To Do

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WSJ | Entitlements Won’t See Big Cuts

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