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Win For Porkbusters
Democratic leaders in the new Congress plan to strip funding for thousands of pet projects for individual members, a big display of fiscal discipline they say will help cut deficits and curb spending abuses. As soon as they take control on Jan. 4, Democrats plan to impose a one-year moratorium on all special projects, known as earmarks, effectively killing those that were tucked into unfinished spending bills by the Republican-led Congress.
Now if they will only learn to balance the budget.
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Why Homeschool: Why We Homeschool - Part 2
Visit Why Homeschool: Why We Homeschool - Part 2 Part of our curriculum was Consumer Math. The book we used had chapters on how to balance a checkbook, how to create a budget, how to fill out an income tax form, how to calculate interest on a loan and...
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Loony Tunes
Just when I think lawmakers can't purpose anything stupider, I read this editorial in the Detroit News. We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that...
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Frist Gets More Pork For His State "I find it ironic that the Senate majority leader found time to publicly diagnose Terri Schiavo's case . . .Ummmmmmmm I think he meant misdiagnose Terri Schiavo's case. The autopsy proved she was brain dead,...
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Reveal colleges' quality rankings It's time for colleges and universities to enter the Information Age, making data on student progress and performance easily available to parents and students. Information on educational value should be a prerequisite...
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Do Public School Students Have a Right to Free Speech? "The question comes down to whether a school may, in the absence of concern about disruption of educational activities, punish and censor non-disruptive, off-campus speech by students during school-authorized...
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