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Original Technorati articles tagged “entitlements”

• in Politics
  Mitt Romney --- A Jello Conservative
  Romney seems to be a Republican 'pragmatist' with no core conservative principles.
  by jturtel / on Feb 8, 2012
• in Politics
  The Barack Obama Economy - Greece-ing Our Skids
  Question: Why are we bailing out Greece when we should be bailing out ... ourselves?
  by theedje / on Jun 16, 2011
• in Politics
  How Serious is America About Fixing Her Budget Crises?
  The Madison protests will most certainly resonate in other states as they work through their budget process.
  by efrank / on Feb 21, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “entitlements”

 

• Cook County Public Pension Crisis Worsens

  
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  Back on April 9, 2012, I blogged about the public pension crisis in Cook County, Illinois. From that post: Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois- a trifecta of serious financial concerns. Hal Dardick talked about all three entities and their growing pension problems early this morning on the Chicago Tribune ...
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• Grover Norquist’s top 6 reasons for supporting the Senate Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill

  
  What The Folly?! — Authority: 144
  Grover Norquist, America’s toughest anti-tax crusader and deficit hawk, testified before the Joint Economic Committee on how higher levels of immigration would benefit the U.S. economy. Here are...
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• ANALYSIS: Grover Norquist debunks Heritage Foundation’s claims that immigration reform will add $6.3 trillion to the deficit

  
  What The Folly?! — Authority: 144
  ANALYSIS: Grover Norquist, arguably the country’s most feared anti-tax crusader and deficit hawk, debunked the Heritage Foundation’s claim that immigration reform would add $6.3 trillion to the deficit,...
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• Medicaid Expansion: Been There, Done That

  
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  To all Arizona taxpayers and health care consumers: When it comes to the  fiscal costs and human damage of expanding Medicaid/AHCCCS under ObamaCare , we know that things will turn out badly.  How do we know?  Because we’ve been there, and we’ve done that.  Here is what past experience, here in Arizona and ...
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• Addiction to Unhealthy Foods Shouldn’t Require Government Regulation

  
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  Michael Moss’s New York Times bestselling book Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us is the latest in a long stream of journalistic exposés decrying the state of food and agriculture... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Senate Passes Marketplace Fairness Act: Real Battle to Be in the House

  
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  Last night the Senate passed the misnamed Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), popularly known as the Internet sales tax, by a 69–27 margin . The troubling bill will now move over to the House. The bill would grant states the authority to force online retailers (with online sales over $1 million per year) to collect ...
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• Do Racial Set-Aside Programs Create Opportunities for Blacks? It Appears They Do.

  
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  The philosophical issue: Can discriminating in favor of African-Americans today recompense for discrimination against African-Americans in the past? Government set-aside programs for minorities have had a positive impact on the rate of business formation by African-Americans, conclude the authors of a new study, “ ...
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• Debt Limit and Tax Reform: Both Important, But On Their Own

  
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    Newscom Press reports link the coming debt limit debate with the building effort for tax reform. The debt limit and tax reform are both important, but the connection ends there, as it should. Suggestions that some sort of fast-track procedure for tax reform might be the conservative “ask” in exchange ...
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• The Gang of Eight Immigration Bill, Explained in One Infographic

  
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  Kelsey Harris The Heritage Foundation Senators return to Washington next week to debate the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration bill. Heritage President Jim DeMint has said the bill is “unfair, it costs too much, and it’s going to make the problem worse.” We’ve put together an infographic that explains ...
  2 weeks ago

• PETA Loses Relevance – Again

  
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  It is a noble and worthwhile endeavor to fight against abuse of animals, and making people aware of such abuse through media attention makes sense. However, Ingrid Newkirk, president of People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), made her organization appear foolish once again by picking the wrong battle to ...
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• Update on Obamacare-Medicaid Expansion in Arizona

  
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  Here’s a brief update on the push to expand Medicaid in the Arizona Legislature. Rumors are circulating that Senator John McComish is attempting to orchestrate a coup d’état on Senate President Andy Biggs as former Senate President Steve Pierce looks on with plausible deniability. Why a coup? Because Senate ...
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• What Labours review of pensioner entitlements means for David Cameron

  
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  Harriet Harman said something arresting on the Today programme earlier: Labour will review the universality of pensioner entitlements. She qualified the offer by pointing out, as Ed Miliband did, that Labour is unlikely to endorse means-testing because of the administrative costs. But the Labour deputy leader is a ...
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• The Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court: Civil and Religious Liberty in Crisis

  
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  I am posting this link to a guest editorial blog I authored at the kind invitation of Alan Reinach of the Pacific Union Conference Office of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty.  I hope that you will follow the link to the article and visit the Church State blog.  It is an excellent resource for religious ...
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• The United States Government is giving Welfare Benefits to Illegal Immigrants

  
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  They are also being encouraged to do so by the Mexican Government. Now before I begin to report this, I must be clear on something: THIS WAS HAPPENING ALSO IN THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. The Story via WND and Judicial Watch : The U.S. government has been caught ...
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• Reid Suggests Exploiting Budget Gimmicks for Sequestration

  
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  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) is proposing not one but two old budget gimmicks to spend $85 billion more in 2013 than allowed under sequestration. Contrary to Senator Reid’s claim that “it wouldn’t add a penny to the deficit,” this spending would in fact add every single penny in foregone ...
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• Morning Bell: American Families Cannot Afford the Cost of Amnesty

  
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  Our nation is going broke, and now is not the time to increase burdens on American families. The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S. 744)—commonly called the “Gang of Eight bill” after the eight Senators who came up with it, Charles Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), ...
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• Video, audio and summary: Jim Wallis debates Jay Richards on Christianity and the common good

  
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  I had to re-post this post again because Facebook decided to mark it as SPAM. This is the same post I put out 4 hours ago. The video recording: The organizers of the debate tell me that the video will be posted shortly after the debate, and I will link to it in this very post. The audio recording: Click here ...
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• Video, audio and summary: Jay Richards and Jim Wallis debate Christianity and the common good

  
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  Note: if you are having trouble liking this page on Facebook or sharing it on Twitter, please click here for an updated one that is shareable . Something went wrong in Facebook and they’ve marked this post as spam! But the new one is fine for sharing. The video recording: The organizers of the debate tell me ...
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• Why Our Governments Never Last… (In Case You Have Wondered)

  
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  A tribal chief is a politician or he doesn’t remain chief. That has always and everywhere been so, likely a reflection of human DNA. In poor tribes, a chief works with the tribesmen; the arrival of economic surplus, changes that.... Read More ›
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• How do you piss off an otherwise happy Dane?

  
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  Danes are reputed to be the happiest people on Earth . Maybe that’s why my grandpa came to the USA to work on his uncle’s pig farm in Central Nebraska back in 1910. He was 15 and was just tired of all of the laughing and fun. Denmark was just way too happy for him. Or, maybe back then things weren’t all that ...
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