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Richard Epstein’s paper THE EMPLOYEE FREE CHOICE ACT: Free Choice or No Choice for Workers is available from the Manhattan Institute. It’s a great resource for understanding exactly why the Employee Free Choice Act will irrevocably harm American workers and the economy. From the executive summary: “As constructed, the ‘free choice’ act excludes workers from two areas vital to their welfare: union selection and contract ratification. Its compulsory arbitration structure... Read More→

The Hill reports that liberals in Congress want to see more cuts in defense spending, but not to save taxpayer money. Instead they want to allocate the cash for more social welfare spending. They claim that the cuts would target weapons programs that either don’t work or have already cost too much money to develop. What they won’t tell you is that the overly long budgeting and development periods for these systems is due in large part to their intransigence to defense spending in the... Read More→

The fare hikes that the MTA approved this past week are the biggest sign we’ll ever get that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is an overwrought, overrated, lousy, wasteful excuse of an agency. When steep price hikes are matched with deep service cuts, you know an agency is in trouble, likely beyond repair. We cannot let this pass without a fight. The New York Daily News has been out in front of the issue. They’ve made their case for who to blame and how to make your voice heard.  Read More →

18 health care groups have banded together to create what they call the Health Reform Dialogue. This statement mostly mirrors the Obama administration’s take on the health care issue, but it leaves out some rather important issues, like how to pay for it.  Read More →

This is an item worthy of your attention: H.R. 333 – a.k.a. The Disabled Veterans Tax Termination Act Summary: Permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans’ disability compensation, to eliminate the phase-in period for concurrent receipt, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter 61 disability retirees with less than 20 years of service. This bill was... Read More→

Poland is calling on the United States not to cave in to the Russians over the missile defense system we had planned to install there. Lately President Obama has been willing to use the system as a bargaining chip in order to achieve better relations with Russia. Such a move is ill-advised. Inconsistency and noncommittal attitudes with allies does not make for good foreign policy. Improving strained relations with certain nations should not be achieved at the expense of good relations with nations... Read More→

The (self) righteous anger that emerged from Congress last week over the AIG bonus situation was a perfect example of just the type of damage that can come from the government during trying economic times. After shrugging aside the role that Christopher Dodd played in allowing the AIG bonuses to go forward in the first place, the redistributionists now want to punish AIG and other beneficiaries of bailout bucks by imposing a 90 percent tax on those same bonuses. The Obama administration and some... Read More→

Over 70 Young Republicans from around New York State gathered in Troy this past weekend to campaign for Jim Tedisco, who is looking to win the 20th Congressional District in a special election on March 31. It’s a close race and everyone is watching this one. As the first special Congressional election of the Obama administration, many are considering this race to be a referendum on the stimulus package. Assemblyman Tedisco’s opponent has publicly endorsed the stimulus, complete with its... Read More→

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The Democrats recognized early that reinstalling the Fairness Doctrine was a non-starter with the American public at large. After all, how do you convince people that all political views aren’t being expressed in the public square when pretty much everyone has access to 500 television channels, 1,000 satellite radio stations, 4-6 million blogs, and some 10-15 million Web sites. Of course, the real reason behind the liberal love affair with the Doctrine is to break the hold conservatives have... Read More→