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All things defunded
I once attended a birthday party for someone I know who has hundreds of friends -- and an operatic personality that frequently tests their loyalty. One guest began his toast to the honoree, "I love him, even though I...
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| March 9, 2011; 4:57 PM ET |
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Give me liberty or give me health care -- the end
For those following my ruminations about the constitutionality of the individual mandate in President Obama's health-care reform legislation -- a group substantially smaller than, say, Sara Bareilles'sfan base, I admit -- it may come as a surprise that I...
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| March 8, 2011; 5:11 PM ET |
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Wiscontradictions
Various polls on the clash in Wisconsin show that the public is more hostile to Republican Gov. Scott Walker's push against public-sector unionism than the governor probably expected. Greg Sargent may slightly overstate the degree of opposition; one question...
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| March 2, 2011; 4:30 PM ET |
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No taxation with misrepresentation
While everyone was away quarreling about Wisconsin last week, Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. issued the most impressive of the pro-health-care reform judicial rulings so far. Kessler's terse, lawyerly opinion made the score...
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| February 28, 2011; 1:53 PM ET |
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On and on and on Wisconsin
Harold Meyerson has promoted me from Scrooge-like to Kevorkianesque. Awesome! But let's stick to the issue at hand. That issue, very simply, is whether collective bargaining for employees of state and local government is in the public interest. I...
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| February 23, 2011; 1:33 PM ET |
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On and on Wisconsin
The estimable Greg Sargent notes public opinion surveys showing public support for collective bargaining rights, suggesting that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has overplayed his hand by refusing to accept a union-Democratic Party "compromise," that would supposedly trade big...
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| February 22, 2011; 6:01 PM ET |
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