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Health Reform: Would You Like A California Cash Cow or New York Pork With Your Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, and Florida Flim-Flam?

California’s recent budget deficits will look bush league relative to the fiscal hurricane that federal health reform will unleash on California and many other states. I made that prediction in this space on December 2, but as we approach 2010 Californians should know that things are actually worse than I ...
Climate Change

The EPA’s Power Grab

The climate campaigners play their trump card, but it may turn out to be a joker. Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 15 – 12/28/2009 – the climate campaign, built step-by-step over the last 20 years, has reached its Waterloo. the Copenhagen conference that ended Friday was an exercise ...
Business & Economics

Steven Greenhut Speaks to the Lincoln Club

Steven Greenhut, author of “Plunder!” speaks to the Lincoln Club of Orange County about his book on 12/10/2009. For the full version of his presentation, please e-mail us at [email protected] to request a DVD copy.
Business & Economics

Steven Greenhut Jumps on the Sharks

Yes, many readers will notice the title of this post is a silly take-off of one I wrote earlier this year, the start of a rather pointed online exchange between Mr. Greenhut and me. Not today, boy—and I’m not even linking here to that previous post in this one—because it’s ...
Commentary

Media Parade as ObamaCare Hangs in the Balance

The hour-by-hour drama of the Democrats’ attempt to secure 60 votes in the Senate to advance their health care agenda is gripping the nation. Is Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) in? Or is he out? And what about Ben Nelson (D-NE)? While Lieberman is rightly accused of flip-flopping on the issue of ...
Commentary

Why the Senate Bill Must Be Rejected

The president met with fellow Democrats at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and reiterated his position that failing to pass any reform was not acceptable. He campaigned on this promise in 2008 and has stuck to his commitment in his many speeches to the nation. In his remarks on ...
Commentary

‘Reform’ still stinks

Yesterday, the Senate’s Democratic leadership blinked first in its showdown with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.). Desperate for the crucial 60th vote needed to pass their health-reform package, Senate leaders capitulated to Lieberman’s demands that the bill drop both the public option and a provision to let those aged 55 to ...
Agriculture

Plunder! Dissects Government Unions

How’s your government treating you lately? I thought so. Unjust wars. Torture. Inflation. Wild spending. Record deficits. Record debt. Bankruptcy. Police brutality. Officious officials. Depression. It’s time to get even. Or at least get an explanation. That’s just what you get in Steven Greenhut’s shocking Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions ...
Business & Economics

Plundering California

The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans are struggling to pay the bills, but one class of Americans is doing quite well: government workers. Their pay levels are soaring, they enjoy unmatched benefits, and they remain largely immune from layoffs, except for some overly publicized ...
Business & Economics

Plunder: New Book Exposes Power of Unions

Last month, the Legislative Analyst Office predicted a budget shortfall for California’s next fiscal year so large it shocked even seasoned observers. The projected $20 billion shortfall is larger than the entire state budgets of all but a handful of other states. The LAO also excoriated the continued use of ...
California

Health Reform: Would You Like A California Cash Cow or New York Pork With Your Cornhusker Kickback, Louisiana Purchase, and Florida Flim-Flam?

California’s recent budget deficits will look bush league relative to the fiscal hurricane that federal health reform will unleash on California and many other states. I made that prediction in this space on December 2, but as we approach 2010 Californians should know that things are actually worse than I ...
Climate Change

The EPA’s Power Grab

The climate campaigners play their trump card, but it may turn out to be a joker. Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 15 – 12/28/2009 – the climate campaign, built step-by-step over the last 20 years, has reached its Waterloo. the Copenhagen conference that ended Friday was an exercise ...
Business & Economics

Steven Greenhut Speaks to the Lincoln Club

Steven Greenhut, author of “Plunder!” speaks to the Lincoln Club of Orange County about his book on 12/10/2009. For the full version of his presentation, please e-mail us at [email protected] to request a DVD copy.
Business & Economics

Steven Greenhut Jumps on the Sharks

Yes, many readers will notice the title of this post is a silly take-off of one I wrote earlier this year, the start of a rather pointed online exchange between Mr. Greenhut and me. Not today, boy—and I’m not even linking here to that previous post in this one—because it’s ...
Commentary

Media Parade as ObamaCare Hangs in the Balance

The hour-by-hour drama of the Democrats’ attempt to secure 60 votes in the Senate to advance their health care agenda is gripping the nation. Is Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) in? Or is he out? And what about Ben Nelson (D-NE)? While Lieberman is rightly accused of flip-flopping on the issue of ...
Commentary

Why the Senate Bill Must Be Rejected

The president met with fellow Democrats at the White House on Tuesday afternoon and reiterated his position that failing to pass any reform was not acceptable. He campaigned on this promise in 2008 and has stuck to his commitment in his many speeches to the nation. In his remarks on ...
Commentary

‘Reform’ still stinks

Yesterday, the Senate’s Democratic leadership blinked first in its showdown with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.). Desperate for the crucial 60th vote needed to pass their health-reform package, Senate leaders capitulated to Lieberman’s demands that the bill drop both the public option and a provision to let those aged 55 to ...
Agriculture

Plunder! Dissects Government Unions

How’s your government treating you lately? I thought so. Unjust wars. Torture. Inflation. Wild spending. Record deficits. Record debt. Bankruptcy. Police brutality. Officious officials. Depression. It’s time to get even. Or at least get an explanation. That’s just what you get in Steven Greenhut’s shocking Plunder!: How Public Employee Unions ...
Business & Economics

Plundering California

The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans are struggling to pay the bills, but one class of Americans is doing quite well: government workers. Their pay levels are soaring, they enjoy unmatched benefits, and they remain largely immune from layoffs, except for some overly publicized ...
Business & Economics

Plunder: New Book Exposes Power of Unions

Last month, the Legislative Analyst Office predicted a budget shortfall for California’s next fiscal year so large it shocked even seasoned observers. The projected $20 billion shortfall is larger than the entire state budgets of all but a handful of other states. The LAO also excoriated the continued use of ...
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