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"Nothing like announcing to our enemies exactly what we have."
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Follow the latest Reuters/Ipsos polls on everything from politics and elections, to social issues and current events.
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On Wednesday, appearing on MSNBC, Donald Trump said a lot of very stupid things. He said that he’d appoint Supreme Court justices based on whether they would investigate and prosecute Hillary Clinton. He said that functions of the federal government should include healthcare, education, and housing. He said that women should be prosecuted for abortion.
But there was one more comment that everybody missed: he said he’d get his rich Muslim friends into the country despite his proposed Muslim immigration ban. Chris Matthews asked Trump about policy. Here’s the conversation:
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Management at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers in California selected and coached employees on exactly what to tell investigators about wait time manipulation, according to new insp
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An activist came completely unglued as he confronted Donald Trump supporters at the site of a rally in Wisconsin on March 29. In a video published by Rebel Pundit, the long-haired activist screams that he’s “smoking pot” and declares his hatred for “this fascist pr**k.” ...
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In a week of headlines emphasizing Trump's problems with female voters, the Cruz campaign turned to its new tandem of Heidi Cruz and Carly Fiorina.
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Is Donald Trump serious about pulling the United States out of NATO? And about forcing American allies like Saudi Arabia to reduce the price of oil in exchange for U.S. military protection? Much of t
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"I can’t even imagine what’s in those emails. But I’m sure I would probably be mortified."
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Saudi Arabia is seeking to 'raise the ceiling on the sanctions demanded by the prosecutor in cases of homosexuality to become a discretionary death penalty'
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President Calvin Coolidge on immigration, and preserving the American standards of life.
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Is it any surprise that the government is now taking steps to limit our ability to drastically reduce our expenses? Tiny house living may become illegal.
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CNN’s Jake Tapper did a short online video segment on the row between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz over the nude Melania Trump ad, going through the entire saga and then busting Trump for lying …
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After all of Donald Trump's recent gutter sleaze, his incoherence on the Constitutional role of the federal government and his flip flopping on whether women should be punished for having abortions it’s refreshing to see a positive message ad like "Opportunity"and an articulate plan for undoing damage done by the ObamaCrats.
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Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES Yesterday, Donald Trump made the worst possible hash out of a question on abortion that you could even imagine. He basically made Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and Christine O’Donnell look like seasoned veterans in terms of manipulating the media minefield of abortion questions. First, he said in response to Chris Matthews that a woman should be punished if she | Read More »
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Trump said he'd authorize any means necessary for interrogating terror suspects.
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At the prediction market Betfair on Friday morning, bettors put Donald Trump’s chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination at 56 percent. That’s down a fair bit ? Trump had been…
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The Republican National Committee has begun to prepare the public for what could prove to be a nasty convention.
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Super PAC for John Kasich Adopts Donald Trump’s ‘Lyin’ Ted’ Moniker for Ted Cruz
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A new poll just came out that shows Cruz with a solid 10 point lead over Trump in Wisconsin: Here’s more: FOX NEWS – Ted Cruz leads Donald Trump in the Republican nomination contest in …
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Five men, including two suspected murderers, have been arrested on suspicion of gang raping a girl on-board a special, high school kids-only pleasure cruise in Sweden
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The Republican front-runner risks an exodus of delegates if he fails to clinch the nomination outright.
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A transgender man is suing a Long Beach barbershop because the barber refused to cut his hair after identifying him as a woman.
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More than 300,000 Chicago children are missing school today because their teachers’ union wants taxes to rise. Unfortunately, this is not an April Fools’ prank. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is actually striking for higher taxes.
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) does not have a record of success. One-third of the district’s students fail to graduate. This happens despite the district paying some of the highest teacher salaries in America. Rising pension costs have now pushed the district into a major deficit. Teacher pension benefits have quintupled over the past 30 years — well over twice the inflation rate. The average career teacher in CPS can now expect over $2 million in lifetime retirement benefits.
To close this deficit, CPS offered the union major concessions. It offered to cap enrollment in (largely non-union) charter schools and relax teacher evaluation standards. In exchange, the district wanted educators to contribute more toward their pensions and health-care benefits.
The Chicago Teachers Union considered that unacceptable. It wants state legislators to raise taxes instead. So the union called the one-day strike to pressure them to do exactly that.
This shows why collective bargaining does not belong in government. Government unions pressure policymakers to make working for government more comfortable. That is their job. Of course, in a democracy, citizens often lobby their representatives for preferred policies. But collective bargaining enables government unions to go much further: They can shut down the government to get their way.
Consequently, voters’ elected representatives no longer have the final say. They must instead bargain — as equal partners — with government unions. Again and again, government unions block changes that voters support but the unions dislike.
Chicagoans elected Mayor Emmanuel on a platform of improving public schools. The 2012 teachers’ strike forced him to water down his education reforms. Illinois voters turfed former governor Pat Quinn after he hiked the state income tax. Now the CTU wants the legislature to raise taxes anyway.
In a democracy, no special-interest group should have such power. Why should CPS need to offer to curtail charter-school enrollment in order to adjust its benefit policies? Or negotiate over how rigorously to evaluate teachers?
The government exists to serve the public good. But collective bargaining forces government to put its own employees’ interests first. This April 1 Chicago’s students, parents, and taxpayers have learned just how foolish that is.
