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Cutting Hours Instead of Jobs
The Wall Street Journal
Nov 21, 2011
Facing potential layoffs, Pilgrim Screw Corp. in September directed 11 of its 65 employees to cut their workweeks by one day.
Caveman Won’t Beat A Salesman
The Wall Street Journal
Nov 18, 2011
There is an arresting moment in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs in which Jobs speaks at length about his philosophy of business. He's at the end of his life and is summing things up. His mission, he says, was plain: to "build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products."
Obama Delays 200K Jobs
The Washington Examiner
Nov 18, 2011
President Obama's United States Department of Agriculture has delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio for up to six months by cancelling a mineral lease auction for Wayne National Forest (WNF). The move was taken in deference to environmentalists, on the pretext of studying the effects of hydraulic fracturing.
NY Braces For Ten Thousand Protestors
The Wall Street Journal
Nov 17, 2011
The occupation at Zuccotti Park may be over, but wary city officials are bracing for trouble tomorrow when a mob of that could number in the “tens of thousands” is expected to answer Occupy Wall Street’s call to shut down the Financial District.
Obama Abandons Private Labor
The Wall Street Journal
Nov 17, 2011
The decision by the Obama administration to "delay" building the Keystone XL pipeline is a watershed moment in American politics. The implication of a policy choice rarely gets more stark than this. Put simply: Why should any blue-collar worker who isn't hooked for life to a public budget vote for Barack Obama next year?
Dems Gain Upper Hand In Debt Negotiations
The Hill
Nov 16, 2011
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that Democrats will block Republican efforts to torpedo cuts to the Pentagon should the supercommittee on deficit reduction fail.
Increase Economic Freedom For Jobs
The Wall Street Journal
Nov 16, 2011
Is the United States exceptional? Of course we are! Two hundred years ago we were one of the poorest countries in the world. We accounted for less than 1% of the world's total GDP. Today our GDP is 23% of the world's total and more than twice as large as the No. 2 country's, China.
Obamacare Goes To Court
The Wall Street Journal
Nov 15, 2011
The "constitutionality" of the Obama health care law, Harvard Law School's Laurence Tribe wrote in the New York Times earlier this year, "is open and shut," adding that the challenge against it is "a political objection in legal garb."