To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : To avoid double dip, remember 1980’s lessons Debt ceiling threat the only way… Rubio: Weak economy and high debt require immediate action Cartoon: Obama plays more golf than Rory McIlroy Supreme Court reins in trial lawyers in Wal-Mart case Weiner still hasn’t resigned… School choice is answer to American competitiveness woes California receives stimulus money to pay for unemployment checks… Good news: Support for nation building fades in GOP What Obama’s undeclared war in Libya reveals about the corrupting effects of power Welfare before the welfare state NLRB’s latest union bailout: quickie elections…

By Robert Romano – Since Rule 22 was adopted in 1917 as a way to bring an end to debate by way of a cloture vote (and modified in 1975 lowering the requirement to a three-fifths majority from two-thirds), Republicans have never had a filibuster-proof majority in […]

By Rebekah Rast – Siemens, the German engineering group, is having difficulty filling job openings in the U.S. With an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent, how is that possible? Eric Spiegel, chief executive in the U.S. for Siemens, said in an interview with Financial Times that, “There’s a mismatch […]

By William Warren – My latest cartoon weighs in on recent U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy and Obama’s golf habits.

Last Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner announced that he would be resigning from Congress. But here we are 4 days later, and Speaker John Boehner’s office still hasn’t received a resignation letter, as Politico reported . On June 9, Weiner was concerned about how he would make money if he resigned from Congress . Apparently he has found a way to alleviate […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Bailouts erode confidence in value Debt-limit deal: Will the cuts be phony? GOP Senate Minority Leader McConnell: A short debt-limit hike is not out of the question… Barone: Government looks to past, free enterprise to future Why not let prices and wages fall? The accountable care fiasco Is the GOP isolationist? No, just more Jacksonian Is the NATO alliance obsolete? Assessing the EPA’s moral case for new power plant emissions rules… Gangster government attack on oil companies An open letter to Paul Krugman Green statists at a grocery store

By Victor Morawski – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently proposed two controversial new rules that set a national standard for emissions from coal-fired power plants . Since these rules are part of the Clean Air Act, it must follow that Act’s Congressional mandate to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the societal impact of any such proposed standard. This analysis shall “consider […]

By Bill Wilson – What is the price of a bailout? Nominally, it’s how much a central bank or legislature has to print or spend, respectively, to save a failed institution from its own stupidity. For example, the Treasury has dedicated more than $150 billion to bailing […]

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Over the weekend I was in Minneapolis at the RightOnline conference and was able to catch up with Michelle Malkin , Rep. Marsha Blackburn , and Rep. John Kline .