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The Regulated States of America - Niall Ferguson, Wall Street Journal
In "Democracy in America," published in 1833, Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the way Americans preferred voluntary association to government regula...
On Immigration, Reid Urges Senate to Push On - Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
House Speaker John Boehner further complicated an already arduous path for immigration reform Tuesday by threatening to dismiss any legislation in his...
Republicans Need Immigration Reform - Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine
Rush Limbaugh asks a pretty decent question. If Republicans need to pass comprehensive immigration reform in order to stave off demographic doom, why ...
The Fatal Flaw of the Gang of Eight Bill - Sen. Rand Paul, Bloomberg
SARA EISEN: As this debate heats up among your colleagues on the floor of the Senate, what has been the reception to some of your proposed amendments?...
House Moves to Reform Broken System Piece By Piece - Fawn Johnson, NJ
House Republicans are ready to play ball on immigration—aggressively. They are taking the strategy they attribute to President Obama—pushi...
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Rebuffed at G-8, Obama Moves On to Berlin - Alexis Simendinger
President Obama is in Berlin Wednesday after encountering a mixed reception among his peers at the G-8 global summit in Northern Ireland this week. ...
America Can Take a Lesson From Germany - Scott N. Paul
Five summers ago, candidate Barack Obama stood before Berlin’s Victory Column and paid homage to America’s ties to Germany. “Look a...
Headwinds for Obama - Rich Galen
There is almost no good news for President Barack Obama in the CNN/ORC poll that was released earlier this week. As the President giggled and played...
Government's War - John Stossel
As Americans obsess over NSA spying, abuse by the IRS and other assaults on our freedom, I can't get my mind off the thousand other ways politicians ...
Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom, Fundamentally at Odds - Matthew Franck
In recent essays at Public Discourse, Mark Regnerus argued that same-sex marriage would harm marriage for everyone, and John Smoot argued that it wou...
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RCP POLL AVERAGES
Job Approval Approve Disapprove Spread
President Obama 45.9 49.6 -3.7
Congress 14.2 76.2 -62.0
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