REAL CLEAR POLITICS Published: June 1, 2012 By MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist letters@ocregister.com The Eurovision Song Contest doesn’t get a lot of attention in the United States, but on the Continent it’s long been seen as the perfect Euro-metaphor. Years before the euro came along, it was the prototype pan-European institution and predicated on the […]
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Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama’s Version A profit-driven economy is preferable to one run by political favoritism. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Mr. Obama’s knock on free enterprise is that it is driven by “profit,” and that this experience makes Mr. Romney too heartless to be president. The alternative is an Obama capitalism
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May 10, 2012 Obama’s Public-Equity Record The auto bailout makes Bain Capital look like an amateur on job losses and outsourcing. By KARL ROVE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: There are differences between Mr. Romney and Mr. Obama. Mr. Romney rescued companies with private money collected from investors including union pension funds, college endowments and private
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March 27, 2012, 6:37 p.m. ET Ryan’s Budget Protects Defense Within a plan to reduce outlays by $6.2 trillion over the next decade, Paul Ryan has found a way to replace $214 billion of the $487 billion in military spending cuts in Obama’s budget. By ARTHUR C. BROOKS, EDWIN J. FEULNER AND WILLIAM KRISTOL Mr.
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Updated March 23, 2012, 7:37 p.m. ET The Democrat Who Took on the Unions Rhode Island’s treasurer Gina Raimondo talks about how she persuaded the voting public, labor rank-and-file and a liberal legislature to pass the most far-reaching pension reform in decades. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Providence, R.I. So this is Gina Raimondo? The state treasurer
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March 14, 2012, 7:18 p.m. ET The Message of Motown Detroit and its public unions head toward bankruptcy. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: That’s because the city, which has twice as many retirees as workers, is spending more on retirement benefits than wages. Pensions make up about two thirds of the public-safety payroll, and many collective-bargaining
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February 23, 2012 A U-Turn Strategy for the GOP By Herbert E. Meyer Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan administration as special assistant to the director of Central Intelligence and vice chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He is the author of several books including Hard Thinking, How to Analyze Information, and The
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FEBRUARY 14, 2012 What happens to countries that choose economic decline. Rioters torched shops and offices, with banks and foreign businesses the main targets. Pensioners wearing gas masks joined a blockade of Parliament and squared off against some 4,000 police officers. The city’s best-known cinema was burned to the ground, along with nine other national-heritage
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