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Employers can’t talk politics?

In a masterpiece of cynicism, American labor unions have come up with a scheme to bypass those federally supervised, secret ballot elections they keep losing … and dubbed it the “Employee Free Choice Act”!

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac: Taxpayers on hook

There are four words one never wants to hear from a friend. And I’m reluctant to use them myself. These four words can come across to the recipient as proud and haughty. At the very best, they can sound indelicate. So it is with great consternation and some reluctance that I open our time together in this space with these very four words: I told you so.

Turnaround on a Beltway interchange

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Students must be engaged at home, school to succeed

By any measure, Nevada has among the lowest high school graduation rates in United States. Thomas Jefferson said, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be.”

Elephant in the Democratic hall

If you’re looking for themes for the Democratic National Convention next week from Denver, here are three.

School choice

The vast majority of the populace cannot afford private school tuition, nor can most two-income households get by on a single paycheck so the kids can be home-schooled. Because teacher unions are so effective in killing legislative proposals for tax credits and school vouchers, most children are at the whims of their neighborhood public education monopoly, and if their parents aren’t happy with the results … well, they don’t have a choice, right?

‘Buyers in these areas are responding … ‘

Bubbles depend on the happy delusion that prices can only go up, that there will always be a new sucker to pay 10 percent more than you bought something for — on credit, on margin — a week or a month ago.

A no-new-taxes message

Tuesday’s primary election provided little drama for legislative Democrats, as the handful of incumbents who faced challenges from within their party destroyed their underfunded rivals.

Primary numbers

If you think your vote doesn’t matter, consider the results of several primary races Tuesday.

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