July 12, 2011 Unknown Unknowns By Thomas Sowell When Donald Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense, he coined some phrases about knowledge that apply far beyond military matters. Secretary Rumsfeld pointed out that there are some things that we know that we know. He called those “known knowns.” We may, for example, know how many aircraft […]
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JULY 7, 2011 Jobs in the Pipeline The EPA tries to scuttle oil transport from Canada’s tar sands. With 9.1% unemployment and gasoline prices in the stratosphere, President Obama must sometimes wish that some big corporation would suddenly show up and offer a shovel-ready, multibillion-dollar project to create 100,000 jobs and reduce U.S. reliance on
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Thanks to a young Republican, Brady Nemeth, for sharing these two educational links. These are two great videos that just came out today. They’re both short and to the point (the first is just 1 minute, the second is roughly 5 minutes), and leave out any politics, which means that they are great for sharing
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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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Power Play by Nina Easton Obama’s labor union problem By Nina Easton, senior editor-at-large @FortuneMagazine June 30, 2011: FORTUNE — How many ways are there to sidestep Congress’ refusal to make it easier for unions to organize? Let us count them. No, better than that, let’s add yet another example — this one involving Delta
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JUNE 30, 2011 Teddie E. Pryor Sr. Chairman , Charleston County Council, Charleston, S.C. Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., Charleston, S.C. Mayor R. Keith Summey, North Charleston, S.C. Mayor Billy Swails, Mount Pleasant, S.C. We find Thomas Geoghegan’s “Boeing’s Threat to American Enterprise” (op-ed, June 20) astounding in its ignorance toward our manufacturing statistics and
LETTER TO THE EDITOR – BOEING EXPANSION IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS A SMART MOVE Read More »
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 25, 2011 The real risks of the shale gas revolution, and how to manage them. The U.S. is in the midst of an energy revolution, and we don’t mean solar panels or wind turbines. A new gusher of natural gas from shale has the potential to transform U.S. energy production—that is, unless politicians, greens
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REAL CLEAR POLITICS June 27, 2011 Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama Is Profoundly Aloof By Michael Barone EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:Sometimes it seems he’s president of the AFL-CIO, not the U.S.A. The man who said he wanted to double exports in five years has nothing to say about his National Labor Relations Board appointee’s attempt to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Fred Barnes June 13, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 37 The Obama administration is 0-for-3 in meeting economic expectations. In 2009, President Obama and his advisers believed the bountiful stimulus package would give the economy a strong jolt. It didn’t, and still hasn’t. In 2010, Obama declared Recovery Summer and
