Archive for November, 2012
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Reimagining the Social Safety Net
Posted on November 30, 2012
When policy makers talk about entitlement reform, they usually are looking at the impending budget crisis caused by retirement programs that continue to grow unsustainably. What they need to do...
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The Haters Club
Posted on November 29, 2012
There are a lot of haters out there. I wish they would stop hating. Here are some of them: Notre Dame Haters: Notre Dame is going to the BCS championship...
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In Defense of Grover
Posted on November 28, 2012
I hate it when my friends get in fights. I like Saxby Chambliss, Peter King, Lindsey Graham and Tom Coburn. I like them a lot and I would vote for...
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Path to Fiscal Sanity
Posted on November 27, 2012
Originally published in the Hill. It was 1995 when I first heard about the burning platform. House Republicans had gathered at Xerox Document University to discuss how they were going...
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Line Cutters
Posted on November 26, 2012
During the American civil war, it became quite fashionable for the very wealthy to pay for the privilege to have somebody else take their place in the actual fighting of...
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