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Farm Policy Foolishness

Redistricting and retirement have introduced most Central Pennsylvanians to less-familiar representatives in Congress. Todd Platts retired and, in 2013, was replaced by Scott Perry. After Tim Holden was redistricted north and east, his former area constituents met Lou Barletta, Charlie Dent or Jim ...

Posted on 20 May 2013 Keep Reading...

Obama's Illegal America

Three scandals engulf the Obama Presidency — the Benghazi terror cover-up, the Justice Department's seizing of the Associated Press's phone lines, and the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for harassment and denial of tax petitions. In all three cases, members of the ...

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Obama's Incredible 'Referent Power'

Comments In T.S. Eliot's drama "Murder in the Cathedral," kowtowing knights who overhear England's Henry II vent frustration with Thomas Becket decide to please the king by killing the archbishop.

Confronted with the scandalous murder, Henry is forced to deny ...

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Costa Business Tax Hike: Job Killer

The Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association
225 State Street Harrisburg, PA 17101
717.232.0737
www.pamanufacturers.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: David N. Taylor
717.232.0737
taylor@pamanufacturers.org

COSTA'S ...

Posted on 20 May 2013 Keep Reading...

Right to Work: Record of Job Growth

Spanish philosopher George Santayana is famously quoted as saying "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." The converse is also true–what better way to learn how to improve our economy than look at what other states are doing to turn themselves around. With that in ...

Posted on 20 May 2013 Keep Reading...

Liquor Privatization Done Right

Picture this: You're on your way home from visiting family in Delaware and decide to stop at a wine store near the Pennsylvania border. As you walk through the parking lot, something seems off. For every Delaware license plate you see, there are three Pennsylvania plates. An aberration? Hardly. ...

Posted on 16 May 2013 Keep Reading...

Not Your Grandfather's PA

When asked to describe Pennsylvania, Washington political consultant James Carville, who helped elect Pennsylvania Gov. Bob Casey and U.S. Senator Harris Wofford, once declared that the state was "Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between." On another occasion, he added: "Pennsylvania is ...

Posted on 16 May 2013 Keep Reading...

Toomey Demands IRS Cooperation in Probe

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 15, 2013

Contact: E.R. Anderson (202) 224-8609
or Bill Rivers (202) 228-6837

SENS. MCCONNELL, TOOMEY DEMAND WHITE HOUSE COOPERATE WITH INVESTIGATION INTO IRS

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Posted on 16 May 2013 Keep Reading...

IRS' Next Target: Health Insurance

The mainstream media is rightly shocked and outraged to find the IRS has admitted to harassing and targeting the political opposition of President Obama just because they had "tea party" or "patriot" in their name, or an even graver sin, put on the IRS applications that they were a group dedicated ...

Posted on 15 May 2013 Keep Reading...

CAP: PA in Bottom 10 (again) for Business

May 14, 2013:

Chief Executive Magazine released its 2013 ranking of the states. Once again
Pennsylvania is in the bottom ten with a rank of forty-second.

The comments from most of the CEO's are not flattering:

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Posted on 14 May 2013 Keep Reading...

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