Michael Barone

According to congressional testimony by owners of trucking companies and the American Trucking Associations, beginning around 2000, revenue agents from New Jersey's department of taxation began waylaying trucks, demanding that the owners pay the states's $1,100 minimum corporate-franchise tax before letting the drivers proceed.

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Congress needs to stop state tax shakedowns

February 9, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Is Obama seeking an opening to Iran the way Richard Nixon did with China?

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February 9, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama speaks at General Electric's Waukesha Gas Engines facility on Jan. 30 in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo)

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Obama paying the price on immigration and, perhaps, trade, for unilaterally rewriting Obamacare

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February 7, 2014 5:00 am

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What can be done for poor Puerto Rico?

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February 6, 2014 12:00 am

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Americans learn to succeed by learning from failure

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February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Rep. Rob Andrews will resign from Congress later this month to take a job with an unnamed Philadelphia law firm. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, File)

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Democratic congressman seems to assume his party won’t regain House anytime soon

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February 4, 2014 5:00 am

Not good enough. That's the verdict from jittery House and Senate Democrats on the administrative fix President Obama proposed for his new health care law.

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How Obamacare misreads America

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February 3, 2014 5:00 am

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Anthony Trollope on governing lightly: a lesson for Obamacare architects

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February 3, 2014 5:00 am

The Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion-rights organization, has just released a study that states that the number of abortions declined from 1.21 million in 2008 to 1.06 million in 2011. (AP Photo)

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Number of abortions continue to decline, four decades after Roe v. Wade

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February 3, 2014 5:00 am

Henry Waxman, left, and George Miller, both Democratic congressmen from California elected in 1974, are set to retire. (Getty Images File)

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The Democratic class of 1974 passes from the scene

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February 2, 2014 5:00 am

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Congress needs to stop state tax shakedowns

Is Obama seeking an opening to Iran the way Richard Nixon did with China?

Obama paying the price on immigration and, perhaps, trade, for unilaterally rewriting Obamacare

What can be done for poor Puerto Rico?

Americans learn to succeed by learning from failure

Democratic congressman seems to assume his party won’t regain House anytime soon

How Obamacare misreads America

Anthony Trollope on governing lightly: a lesson for Obamacare architects

Number of abortions continue to decline, four decades after Roe v. Wade

The Democratic class of 1974 passes from the scene

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