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That Class Warfare Discussion

from The Wilderness, The Untouchable: Democrats are Terrified of Scott Walker. They Should Be. This past 4th of July, while Hillary was marching in designer flats, Scott Walker was addressing crowds wearing a t-shirt, ballcap and dirty jeans. While Hillary

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Scott Walker- Results Do Count

from The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Rago writes How Scott Walker Keeps Winning Mr. Walker suggests a more secular reading: “People actually saw, they saw with their own eyes,” he says. “Once they got past the myths and the half-truths

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The Public Union Experiment

Jeff Jacoby writes The end nears for a 50-year mistake, 6/10/12. Excerpts: The second harbinger was the plunge in public-employee union membership. The most important of Walker’s reforms, the change Big Labor had fought most bitterly, was ending the automatic

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Political Clients

The factions that came to depend on the largesse of the Democratic-run governments became clients of the national party, much as the Irish in New York were clients of their patrons in Tammany Hall.  They would vote for the party

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Not Just a Wisconsin Victory

I wrote in today’s American Thinker, Why I Sent Money to Scott Walker Excerpt: Scott Walker won because he showed results: a balanced budget and lower taxes.  He did not blame the previous administration for the mess he inherited.  Walker

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Unions’ Dirty Little Secret

John Fund writes in The National Review Online, If Walker Wins, What Are the Lessons? 6/4/12 A Walker victory will expose for all to see the dirty little secret of the power of public-sector unions in America: It depends on

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Devolving Unions

The history of unions in the American workforce is wrapped up in their quest for political power. Originally unions sought equality in the workforce with the holders of the capital that employed them.  Unifying was a natural choice.  But their

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Fertilizing New Leaders

Looking back for the last few years it is stunning to see how the Democrats squandered their power from the 2006-2008 victories.  They misread their mandate and governed poorly; passing unpopular legislation using the most partisan means.  The damage is

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