JULY 16, 2011 The unavailability of beer, cigarettes and fishing licenses seemed to annoy them the most. By DAVID STROM Minneapolis What if they had a government shutdown and nobody cared? That about sums up what’s just happened in Minnesota. The fiscal year ended on June 30, and since then all but “essential” services of
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Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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Sarah Palin’s Notes Notes About Sarah Palin The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders by Sarah Palin on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 6:22pm Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that
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June 15, 2011 “Brother, Can You Spare a Regulation?” By Tony Blankley Last week, in a much-discussed, open, live, televised forum, Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke the $64 trillion question. While most commentators focused on the apt question, it was Bernanke’s answer that shocked me when I
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Burning down the house By George F. Will, Published: July 1 “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Emerson The louder they talked about the disadvantaged, the more money they made. And the more the financial system tottered. Who were they? Most explanations of the financial calamity have been
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FORBES by Steve Forbes Fact and Comment For Whom The Greek Bell Tolls 07.18.11 Given its rich mercantile heritage in the Mediterranean, Greece should be the Hong Kong/Singapore/ Switzerland of the Balkans. Its emigrants and their descendants have been huge business successes in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere. Yet Greece is bankrupt,
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June 30, 2011 A Dangerous Point of View…Indeed Russ Vaughn Congressman John Conyers, Democrat, from Michigan has just served up the money quote regarding his party’s true position on doing something about our nation’s budget woes: “This is the first time that I can remember being confronted by members of the Congress, my colleagues,
