Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Reading list

1. Heritage: Paycheck Fairness Act Unfairly Burdens Employees and Employers 
 "The government has a legitimate role in protecting women from discrimination but should allow employers to decide how they value the work performed for them. S. 3220, the Paycheck Fairness Act (PFA), undermines this policy."
2Security leaks; spot the weasel words: "...Attorney General Eric Holder ... appointed two attorneys to lead criminal investigations into any "unauthorized disclosure of classified information."  "STOP EVERYTHING! It's time to play "Spot the Weasel Wording!" Did you catch it in Holder's statement? (tick, tick, tick...)
"Time's up! The weasel word was "unauthorized.""
3. Victor Davis Hanson: From Hope and Change to Fear and Smear  "Private equity firms are good for campaign donations but bad when a Republican rival runs them. "Romney would do worse," rather than "I did well," is the implicit Obama campaign theme of 2012."
4. California: America’s Welfare Queen  "...The state accounts for one-third of America’s welfare recipients, though it only contains one-eighth of the population, and there’s no good reason for it."
5. Thomas Sowell: Barack Obama: Dictator of the Left  "What President Obama has been pushing for, and moving toward, is more insidious: government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands. That way, politicians get to call the shots, but, when their bright ideas lead to disaster, they can always blame those who own businesses in the private sector."
6. WSJ: ObamaCare's Secret History  "The lesson for Republicans if they do end up running the country next year is that their job is to restore the free and fair market that creates broad-based economic growth. The temptation will be to return for the sake of power to the methods of Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff." Then goodbye, Republicans.
7. Holder rejects resignation call at testy Senate hearing  “I’m afraid we’ve come to an impasse,” Cornyn said, adding that Holder “violated the public trust” in his view. “With regret, you’ve left me with no choice but to join those who call for you to resign your office.”
8. Unions Out to Divide and Conquer Workplaces  "A new rule hatched by the Obama-appointed board, authorizes the creation of union cells—organizing a few employees within a company to gain a foothold—which will severely impact businesses."
9. Mr. Netanyahu’s Dilemma  "As the prime minister of Israel he has a dreadful calculus to make: Is Barack Obama sufficiently serious about preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons?"
10. Reporter to Obama: You should be on American Idol "I was just wondering if you would give any thought to being on 'American Idol' or 'America's Got Talent'?" he asked. "You'd be a big hit Mr. President."  Local reporters! Via Weasel Zippers
11. AFL-CIO Teams Up With NAACP, La Raza To Launch “Most Aggressive Push” Against Voter ID Laws In Six Battleground States… "When exactly did unions go from representing workers to shilling for every left-wing cause under the sun?"
12. Teachers Union: Socialist Ideas “As American As Apple Pie”… "While other union activists around Wisconsin are sometimes coy about their radical views (outside the classroom, that is), Verdin is just the opposite. He’s a Marxist teacher who wants to bring a socialist revolution to the United States, and he’s very proud of that stance."
13. Edward Klein’s “The Amateur” — and what it reveals about America’s partisan media "Witness the election coverage that sees the media play lap dog to the Obama campaign, while working hard to undermine the Romney campaign."
14. (Photo at right) ‘Blue Bloods’ Exemplifies the Good in Contemporary Popular Culture  "If Blue Bloods isn’t the best show on TV, it is certainly in the running."  "... wisdom clearly comes from those in the family who are older and the younger learn from them, not the other way around so often seen in popular entertainment." 
15. 'Green Acres' actor Frank Cady dies at 96  "...played Hooterville general-store proprietor Sam Drucker on the TV sitcoms “Green Acres” and “Petticoat Junction,”
16. Sob Story Over Jane Fonda’s “Haunting” By “Hateful Nickname” Hanoi Jane  "She also attacked U.S. soldiers–many of whom died or lost limbs–on Viet Cong loudspeakers and radio."
17. Obama outfoxed by Putin  "That is how totally out to lunch the Obama foreign policy team is when it comes to Syria and to its “reset” relations with Russia."

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