Mark Steyn: Lessons for us from London in flames By MARK STEYN 2011-08-12 11:30:43 The trick in this business is not to be right too early. A week ago I released my new book – the usual doom ‘n’ gloom stuff – and, just as the sensible prudent moderate chaps were about to dismiss it […]
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AUGUST 13, 2011 Après le Déluge, What? Riots and flash mobs have root causes that government can’t reach. By PEGGY NOONAN The riots in Britain left some Americans shaken. In the affluence of the past 40 years, and with the rise of the jumbo jet, we became a nation of travelers. We have been to
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AUGUST 13, 2011 He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president. By NORMAN PODHORETZ It’s open season on President Obama. Which is to say that the usual suspects on the right (among whom I include myself) are increasingly being joined in attacking him by erstwhile worshipers on the left. Even
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August 12, 2011 The President’s Stale Sermons By Victor Davis Hanson Congress just approved the highest debt ceiling in American history, allowing the government to carry over $16 trillion in national debt – prompting the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade America’s multitrillion-dollar debt for the first time in 70 years. Unemployment is still
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August 12, 2011 By Michelle Malkin 8/12/2011 Everything that’s wrong with the so-called debt “super-committee” can be summed up in the person, partisan hackery and policy ignorance of Washington Democratic Sen. Patty Murray. On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid named Murray co-chair of the dog-and-pony deficit-reduction panel tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in spending
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WALL STREET JOURNAL August 11, 2011 Emerson Electric CEO David Farr during an earnings call, Aug. 2: GDP in the U.S. grew in the first half less than 1%. . . . It’s not new news. We have to deal with it. We have a tradition in the company to deal with those things. Then
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AUGUST 10, 2011 The Parthenon in Rome A short course in Italian economics. The European Central Bank has now stepped in to shore up Italian bond prices. Yet Europe’s political establishment seems amazed that investors have suddenly soured on Italy’s debt. “It is not as if the fundamentals of the Italian or Spanish economies have
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AUGUST 10, 2011 A New Strategy for Economic Growth Growth is not just about economics. Growth unleashes human potential. By KEVIN WARSH AND JEB BUSH As the economy continues to struggle, we are reminded of a course offered at Yale University titled “Grand Strategy.” Drawing on a weighty curriculum of history and philosophy, the course
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– Big Government – http://biggovernment.com – If We Let the Government Take Our Guns, We’ll Have to Run and Hide Like Londoners Posted By AWR Hawkins On August 10, 2011 @ 12:29 pm When England banned the private ownership of handguns within its borders, I remember the National Rifle Association (NRA) airing videos of steamrollers
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