The defining political issue of 2012 won’t be the government’s size. It will be whom government is for. Americans have never much liked government. After all, the nation was conceived in a revolution against government. But the surge of cynicism engulfing America isn’t about how big government has become. It’s a growing perception that...

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By Christopher Weaver Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) is calling for an inquiry into whether South Carolina officials used funding from the health-overhaul law to block the law’s central plank from taking hold in the palmetto state. At issue is $1 million the federal government gave to the state to plan its own health-insurance...

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