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  • Lawmakers' conference readies budget to jam through House

    12/10/2013 1:13:51 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 9 replies
    The Hill ^ | December 9, 2013 | Erik Wasson and Russell Berman
    Congressional leaders are preparing to unveil a last-minute budget deal that could be quickly jammed through the House. It looks like a deal could be unveiled as late as Wednesday, just two days before the House is scheduled to recess for the rest of the year. Wednesday is the last day a bill can be filed in the House to allow a Friday vote without going around House rules. Releasing the bill that late in the week could be the best way to cut off a rebellion from the right, and conservatives on Monday were already expressing wariness. “I’m resigned...
  • Why Wisconsin Fights

    06/05/2012 1:38:06 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 4 replies
    National Review Online ^ | June 5, 2012 | Deroy Murdock
    As Wisconsin voters head to the polls for Tuesday’s gubernatorial recall election, they and citizens across the country will confront an enduring myth that has fueled public spending and debt from coast to coast: Government workers, Americans have been led to believe, sacrifice for the public good, earning less money than if they quit their posts and entered the vastly more lucrative private sector. While this meme may have held water at some point, it does not now. A website and quiz developed by the Independent Women’s Voice provides a quick education on how this left-wing lie turns the facts...