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To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : House Republican Budget Committee members are prepared for 2012 Rep. Paul Ryan: The GOP path to prosperity House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan proposes $4 trillion in savings $4 trillion in cuts is just a start Repeal of ObamaCare key to Ryan plan… Ryan v. Obama in the Battle of the Budget It’s time for a government shutdown Unions slam Obama on “shutdown” plans… Obama and Senate Dems have no excuse for a government “shutdown” Cartoon of the day, “Come on in, the water’s fine!” Brit Hume: If election were held today, Obama would lose Fiasco in Libya: Fools at war Obama’s war of choice What really threatens our future? UNITE HERE sidesteps challenge to accept secret ballot election Jeffrey Immelt, the jobs czar from hell Shocker: Inflation is back, wages falling behind York: GOP keeps its powder dry as Obama runs unopposed Conservatives pine for a champion

By Willie Soon and Barun Mitra – Energy sustainability is not about resource availability and pollution. Capitalism and human ingenuity have already addressed “sustainability” in these regards, if the statistics are to be believed. The real sustainability challenge and threat concerns government intervention in the […]

By Rebekah Rast – While Congress battles out the remainder of the budget for Fiscal Year 2011, the House Budget Committee is already one step ahead. The federal government’s spending spree is no longer sustainable and the House Republican Budget Committee’s proposed 2012 budget contain […]

By William Warren – Today’s cartoon focuses on the “GOP Establishment”, which is contemplating jumping into the pool of “Red Ink” along with the Dems.

By Kevin Mooney – With a little help from the unelected fourth branch of government, union operatives with UNITE HERE have sidestepped a challenge from Hyatt Hotels Corp. to participate in a federally supervised secret ballot election. Although Congress thus far rejected legislation that would […]

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson praised House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposal to rein in so-called “mandatory” entitlement in the 2012 budget by “more than $4 trillion” : “Budget Chairman Ryan’s proposal to rein in so-called ‘mandatory’ spending by ‘more than $4 trillion’ in the 2012 budget is one that all Americans can understand. This is a savings plan. The fact is, tens of millions of […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : The Fed bails out the world… The 19 percent solution: How to balance the budget without increasing taxes Obama and Senate Dems have no excuse for “shutting down” government… Republicans and the real budget prize Barone: GOP shouldn’t if white becomes a minority A renaissance of education in Detroit? Would we be better off without TARP? Tea time Boudreaux: Despite the scary warnings, U.S. not running low on oil Ryan budget: A huge opportunity to improve health care Secrecy hides taxpayer dollars used in Big Green lawsuits Obama launches re-elect bid with video Campaign spending limits are dead

“From a partisan point of view, I think it would be the best thing in the world to have a shutdown” – Former Vermont Governor and DNC Chairman Howard Dean RE: The Republican led House of Representatives passed a spending plan this past February for […]

By Adam Bitely – In Robert Samuelson’s recent op-ed praising TARP as a success of government intervention that stabilized the financial market, he stated , “Without TARP, we’d be worse off today. No one can say whether unemployment would be 11 percent or 14 percent; it certainly wouldn’t be 8.9 percent .” Samuelsson must have access to information that the rest of us have been denied. […]