JULY 15, 2010 My Biggest Mistake in the White House Failing to refute charges that Bush lied us into war has hurt our country. By KARL ROVE Seven years ago today, in a speech on the Iraq war, Sen. Ted Kennedy fired the first shot in an all-out assault on President George W. Bush’s integrity. […]
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JULY 13, 2010 The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth Runaway government spending, not declining tax revenues, is the reason the U.S. faces dramatic budget shortfalls for years to come. By BRIAN RIEDL President Obama and congressional Democrats are blaming their trillion-dollar budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Letting
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JULY 13, 2010 FDR, Obama and ‘Confidence’ Demonizing business deepened the Great Depression. The White House can learn from Roosevelt’s mistakes. By AMITY SHLAES What is confidence and why is it missing? The concept seems to be driving Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner crazy this summer. You can hear that when you listen to him talk
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JUNE 28, 2010 Why Friedrich Hayek Is Making a Comeback With the failure of Keynesian stimulus, the late Austrian economist’s ideas on state power and crony capitalism are getting a new hearing. By RUSS ROBERTS He was born in the 19th century, wrote his most influential book more than 65 years ago, and he’s not
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Two Faces of the Tea Party Rick Santelli, Glenn Beck, and the future of the populist insurgency. BY Matthew Continetti June 28, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 39 As a student in the exciting new field of Tea Party Studies, I’ve noticed that no one agrees on what the
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INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? By THOMAS SOWELL Posted 06/21/2010 06:13 PM ET View Enlarged Image When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to
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JUNE 18, 2010 How ‘Protectionist’ Became An Insult As Congress dawdles on trade agreements, the harsh results of the Smoot-Hawley tariff should not be forgotten. By DOUGLAS A. IRWIN Eighty years ago, on June 17, 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff, significantly raising the duties on imported goods. Hoover and his congressional
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The World Changed. Photos by David J. Sullivan. Copyright The Sullivan Family Trust
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VJ Day in Honolulu If you are at least 65, I am sure you all saw the Sailor kissing on Broadway in New York , but how many have seen this? And check out the color fidelity – Nothing will ever compare with Kodachrome film. andclick on arrow — it has sound. http://vimeo.com/5645171
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June 5, 2010 Senator Burr speaks not as a candidate for reelection but as an American. He talks about our country, why it was formed and about our freedoms and our liberties. http://www.ncgop.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=osLZIdMSJvH&b=5795073&ct=8430591
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