Archive for States
Issue 2 Dead in Ohio
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Voters in Ohio supported public employee unions by voting “no” on issue 2 (a referendum on anti-union senate bill 5) by a 2 to 1 margin. It was a ringing endorsement of cops and firefighters. Teachers, not so much. More than half the school levies in the state failed.
Sarah’s Got Mail
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Go here if you’d like to be a citizen screener of any of the 24,000 pages of email from Sarah Palin’s tenure as governor of Alaska. The feeding frenzy doesn’t sit well with sometime Palin antagonist Joe Scarborough in his Politico column.
Teachers Union Goes Greek
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States are broke and teachers think they want to break their unions. Wisconsin teachers took a sick-out from school to protest. A few took an additional sick-out from civility to compare Governor Scott Walker to Hitler.
Movin’ On Up
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The census numbers are in and the population losers tend to be high tax and regulation states while winners are the opposite. New York and Ohio lost 2 House seats each. Texas gained 4. Doesn’t prove anything, but here’s what Michael Barone has to say about it.
Presidents Without Borders
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Obama pronounced us not defined by our borders and promptly joined Mexican President Felipe Calderon in trashing Arizona for its immigration law. Senator Arlen Specter, now spurned by both democrats and republicans, doesn’t find himself bound by much of anything. At the end of Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999, Specter relied on Scottish Law to vote “not proved”
All the States Above Average
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Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Meet the Press Sunday that the federal government owes the Golden State. He claims that his state only gets back $0.78 on the dollar from the feds while Alaska gets $1.86. (I accidentally cheated the mushers out of $0.56 in the cartoon.) Go here to see this part of the interview (if you don’t want to hear the whole thing you can fast forward to the 4:50 mark). In a later section of the interview he smacks the California congressional delegation for supporting the health care bill which he says will be an economic blow to their state .