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Obama’s SOTU Address Calls for “Equality” at the Expense of Rights

By Ari Armstrong

Jan 29, 2014
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In his State of the Union address last night, Barack Obama predictably advocated more federal spending on programs including K–12 education, pre-kindergarten education, transportation, high-tech “hubs,” business “loans,” scientific research, subsidies for solar energy and the like, job training, subsidies for the unemployed, and government-backed invest…

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