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Chicago Teacher Strike Not About Money

Teachers in Chicago are on strike. You will hear from the usual anti-government, anti-union crowd that this is another instance of greedy public employees trying to get more money, but that is just wrong and here's why. The teachers say they are fighting for smaller...

I Smell John Bolton

To those still wondering if Romney might be a kinder, gentler foreign policy president, think again: Yesterday we noted that Mitt Romney, down in the polls after the convention, was throwing the kitchen sink at President Obama. Little did we know the kitchen sink...

Sequester Madness Is Bad Policy, Bad Politics

Originally posted at Capital Gains and Games. I want to say this as directly as possible: The sequester - the Jan. 2 across-the-board spending cut that was triggered when the anything-but-super committee failed to agree on a deficit reduction plan last November -...

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