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October 13, 2008
A recent article by Pittsburgh Tribune-Review columnist Eric Heyl points to the problem the Republican caucus in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives will have as they attempt to pick up the ... [more]
October 10, 2008
It is time somebody asks the question: Is Pennsylvania still a battleground state in the Presidential election?
The answer, unfortunately is no.
Color it blue.
Look at the ... [more]
October 09, 2008
When is somebody going to stick a fork in House Majority Leader Bill DeWeese? If his goose wasn't cooked before his former chief of staff Mike Manzo testified yesterday, it certainly is ... [more]
October 08, 2008
The big loser in last night's Presidential debate: free market economics.
John McCain popped the cork on a massive new social welfare program, proposing to spend $300 billion to buy up the ... [more]
October 07, 2008
Kudos today to the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry which held its annual dinner last night at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center. This year's dinner featured a "debate" ... [more]
INCONSISTENT POSITIONS
Obama thinks that war is OK
If it stops genocide in some way.
In Darfur we should fight…
But Iraq wasn't right
Though Saddam Hussein
blew Kurds away.
Statement by Barack Obama: "The United States should support the immediate deployment of an effective international force to disarm militia, protect civilians and facilitate delivery of humanitarian assistance in Darfur. " Note: Saddam Hussein "ethnically cleansed" over 300,000 Kurds.
PICKING A CANDIDATE
My wife and I
don't always agree.
We do on most things,
fortunately.
When I evaluate
McCain the candidate -
Like her, he's most often right
... happily.
There are times that
I gripe and complain
About issues endorsed
by McCain.
And just like with my wife
On occasion there's strife ...
But he's the best choice
in this campaign.
Last updated: Mon, October 13, 2008
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Mon, October 13, 2008Lowman S. Henry
Pennsylvania's business climate mirrored the national economic melt-down over the past six months according to a substantial majority of business owners and chief executive officers participating in ...
Mon, October 13, 2008David N. Taylor
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
After decades of dominating life in the state capitol, two of Harrisburg's political titans may be heading to the ...
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Mon, October 13, 2008News Article
Conservative Reform Network
The Newsletter for Independent, Conservative Political Activists
In This Issue
Conservative Reform Network ...
Thu, October 09, 2008News Release
FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE POLL Lancaster, PA
For immediate release Thursday, 10/09/08
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Fri, October 10, 2008Bob Guzzardi
The U.S. Vice President is, it seems, a part of the Legislative Branch and not the Executive Branch of the United States government. A vote on Nov. 4 for John McCain as Commander in Chief of our ...
Fri, October 10, 2008G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young
Is it over? Could the lights be dimming on Pennsylvania's long-playing role as a national electoral battleground?
At first blush, the question seems ...
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Wed, October 08, 2008Policy Brief
Who has the power to set tax rates in a home rule community? A definitive answer to that question will go a long way in determining who retains ultimate sovereignty in communities that have adopted ...
Tue, October 07, 2008Policy Brief
The Governor remains optimistic about Pennsylvania's job situation. He compares employment changes in the Commonwealth to the nation as a whole and notes in the August Employment Report that ...
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Fri, October 10, 2008Dr. Earl H. Tilford
Near the conclusion of Tuesday night's second presidential "town-hall" style debate, a questioner from the audience asked each candidate what he would do if Iran attacked Israel. Both ...
Wed, October 08, 2008Paul Kengor
A casualty of the left's hatred for President George W. Bush has been a destructive inability to separate fact from fiction in the ongoing history of the war in Iraq. The latest case, which, sadly, ...
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Fri, October 10, 2008Nathan A. Benefield
Recently, state Senators Gibson Armstrong (R, Lancaster) and Vince Fumo (D, Philadelphia) sounded the alarm that Pennsylvania will be facing a massive budget deficit by the end of the fiscal year. ...
Mon, October 06, 2008Matthew Brouillette
Washington's response to the current financial trouble has affirmed Groucho Marx's definition of "Politics": "The art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it ...
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Fri, October 03, 2008Newsletter
Conservative Reform Network
The Newsletter for Independent, Conservative Political Activists
In This Issue
Conservative Reform Network ...
Fri, September 26, 2008Newsletter
Conservative Reform Network
The Newsletter for Independent, Conservative Political Activists
In This Issue
Conservative Reform Network ...
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Mon, October 06, 2008News Release
The Shadow University Celebrates Its Ten-Year Anniversary
October marks the ten-year anniversary of the publication of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses, an ...
Wed, October 01, 2008News Release
PHILADELPHIA, September 30, 2008—Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) sent letters to administrators at twenty public colleges and universities in New Jersey, Delaware, and ...
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Mon, October 06, 2008Chris Freind
George Bush Has Kept America Safer
Few will argue that the George W. Bush presidency has largely been one of disappointment. It took the President ...
Tue, September 30, 2008Chris Freind
I'm not sure who's more clueless: Mayor Nutter or the family of cop-killer Daniel Giddings
Gidding's family is eulogizing him as ...
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Mon, October 06, 2008Peg Luksik
Halloween came early this year. The U.S. House and Senate played a trick on the American taxpayer to treat Wall Street and their favorite pet projects in a bailout bill that many observers say will ...
Mon, September 29, 2008Peg Luksik
Jack was renovating his bathroom. As he was working on the plumbing, his neighbor Sam stopped by. Sam was a very helpful fellow, and offered to assist Jack with the plumbing repairs. Jack was a ...
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Sun, October 12, 2008Lincoln Institute
Pennsylvania's business climate mirrored the national economic melt-down over the past six months according to a substantial majority of business owners and chief executive officers participating in ...
Sun, October 12, 2008Lincoln Institute
Total Started Survey: 245
Total Completed Survey: 232 (94.7%)
Section I: Business Climate
1. ...
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Tue, October 07, 2008Nathan Shrader
Anyone who has ever been to Philadelphia will tell you there is something magical about the cheese steak. This sandwich is overflowing with taste. It is a cultural icon and a tasty piece of campaign ...
Thu, September 25, 2008Nathan Shrader
Francois-Marie Arouet was better known by his pen name, Voltaire. A defender of personal, political, and religious freedom in 18th century France, this deep thinking man whose ideas helped influence ...
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Fri, October 03, 2008Kevin Shivers
Small business owners are the last to come to the government with hat in hand asking for a handout—for the most part, they're usually content to just be left alone. So it's not surprising that the ...
Wed, September 03, 2008Policy Brief
Pennsylvania 2008 Legislative AgendaLegislation to Watch in Pennsylvania
Insurance Issues
HB 121 ...
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Wed, August 27, 2008News Release
Anyone who follows the Olympics knows that at that level of competition, it's mastery of the fundamentals that often is the difference between winning Gold and simply going home. When the competition ...
Fri, August 08, 2008News Release
Basic benefits plans would make health care more affordable
A fundamental problem with the various state-subsidized health-care proposals that have ...
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Mon, September 22, 2008News Release
FAMILY UPDATE
Volume 4, Issue 26
September 19, 2008
The Pennsylvania Family Institute's weekly update to concerned ...
Fri, September 12, 2008Newsletter
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Wed, July 09, 2008News Release
An Evening with Michael Reagan
Pennsylvania Leadership Conference Celebrates 20th Anniversary
Michael Reagan, eldest son of President Ronald ...
Fri, May 02, 2008News Release
Save the dates!
The 2009 Pennsylvania Leadership Conference will be held March 27th and 28th at the Four Points Sheraton near Harrisburg, PA.
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Mon, May 19, 2008David N. Taylor
Pennsylvanians strongly support the bipartisan, pro-growth business tax reforms introduced in the state House and Senate, a recent survey reveals.
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Mon, May 19, 2008News Release
PMA notes with sadness the passing of longtime board member Jack May of Berwyn, who died on March 23, 2008 of heart failure at his second home in Hobe Sound, Florida. Former chairman and longtime ...
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Wed, October 01, 2008News Release
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Online News from the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation
October 1, 2008
A publication of the Pennsylvania Pro-Life ...
Tue, September 16, 2008Newsletter
Pennsylvania Pro-Life Online News from the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation
September 15, 2008
A ...
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Wed, October 08, 2008Susan Staub
"The inconveniences of too little government are far less harmful than the inconveniences of too much."... Thomas Jefferson
With ...
Fri, August 29, 2008Susan Staub
"LIBERTY IS UNOBSTRUCTED ACTION ACCORDING TO OUR WILL...LAW IS OFTEN BUT THE TYRANT'S WILL, AND ALWAYS SO WHEN IT VIOLATES THE RIGHT OF AN INDIVIDUAL"
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1819
...
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Tue, May 20, 2008Newsletter
20 May 2008
Property Tax Elimination Rally!
This is just a short note today to remind you about the ...
Fri, May 02, 2008News Release
02 May 2008
Property Tax Rally!
Dear Friends,
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Mon, September 29, 2008News Release
The Pennsylvania Medical Society (PMS) has long been in cahoots with Personal Injury Governor (PIG) Rendell, an outspoken opponent of legal reform.
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Mon, September 15, 2008Newsletter
Patients And Physicians Alliance
Pennsylvania's Voice for Tort Reform Education September 15, 2008
REMINDER: SEND PAPA YOUR PHARMA REPS!!!
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Mon, October 06, 2008Ralph R. Reiland
In March, Barack Obama's speech in Philadelphia on race was inspiring and knowledgeable.
Attempting to put the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy ...
Mon, September 29, 2008Ralph R. Reiland
The roots of today's mortgage-based financial crisis can be traced back to the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which Jimmy Carter signed in 1977. Seeking to address complaints from anti-poverty ...
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Mon, October 13, 2008Salena Zito
Most Americans wake every morning to news that Barack Obama will win next month's presidential election. Strategists even say the word "landslide" aloud.
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Mon, September 29, 2008Salena Zito
Last week, Main Street received an opportunity to sit in the front seat of the election, thanks to John McCain's decision to suspend his campaign to go to Washington to help Congress fix the ...
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Tue, September 02, 2008News Release
The Pennsylvania teachers' union (PSEA) are back in action. Today, two school districts see their doors shut following the summer break.
Dusquesne in ...
Mon, August 25, 2008News Release
MEDIA RELEASE
Yardley, PA – August 22, 2008 for immediate release
StopTeacherStrikes calls union contract unconstitutional and demands answer to ...
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Mon, September 29, 2008Louis D. D'Amico
Pennsylvania cannot throw away the economic opportunity that gas production in the Marcellus Shale could provide the state. And it cannot turn its back on the rest of the nation by denying it a ...
Mon, September 29, 2008News Release
Watch BEHIND THE HEADLINES, a television production of The Susquehanna Valley Center for Public Policy. For the weeks of September 29 and October 6 a discussion about the upcoming election with Abe ...
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Thu, June 12, 2008Newsletter
Plea for Scholarships
The difficult economy has taken a real toll on nonprofit organizations nationally and the Foundation for Free Enterprise ...
Fri, November 02, 2007News Release
NEWARK, Del., November 2, 2007—After an intense campaign led by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), the University of Delaware has dropped an ideological reeducation program ...
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Mon, August 25, 2008News Article
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Aug 2008
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Wed, June 18, 2008Newsletter
June 2008
In This Issue
Brand New Website
Father's Day Tribute
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Thu, October 09, 2008David W. Kirkpatrick
There is a tendency to view what is as what was, what will be, or what must be. The public school system is a beneficiary of this tendency. To some degree this is desirable. If everything was ...
Thu, October 02, 2008David W. Kirkpatrick
The following is adapted from a recent weekly charter schools compilation in the Charter Schools News Connection, sponsored by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
Enrollment ...