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WHAT’S SO GREAT ABOUT AMERICA

What’s So Great About America Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What’s So Great About America Andrew Ferguson November 15, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 09 Marco Rubio will have to write a new speech sooner or later, but he shouldn’t hurry up on our account. We still enjoy the one he’s been giving all year.

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SARAH PALIN’S LETTER TO THE EDITOR

LETTERS NOVEMBER 18, 2010 ‘Refudiation’ of $600 Billion Printed Out of Thin Air While on a United Airlines flight from New York City to Los Angeles this week, a fellow passenger handed me a copy of the The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15 op-ed by Alan Blinder—”In Defense of Ben Bernanke“—and suggested that I write

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THE FANNIE MAE REPUBLICANS

NOVEMBER 16, 2010 Some born again reformers were once the company’s defenders. A major task for the next Congress will be rewriting the laws governing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and House Republicans have now won a seat at that table. Which makes it all the more important that their seat not be occupied by

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$600 BILLION BOND PURCHASE CRITICIZED BY GOP ECONOMISTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Fresh Attack on Fed Move GOP Economists, Lawmakers Call for Abandoning $600 Billion Bond Purchase By PETER WALLSTEN And SUDEEP REDDY WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve’s latest attempt to boost the U.S. economy is coming under fire from Republican economists and politicians, threatening to yank the central bank deeper into partisan politics. A group

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STANDING TALL: THE RISE & RESILIENCE OF CONSERVATIVE WOMEN

By Michelle Malkin  •  October 29, 2010 09:39 AM My column today pays tribute to some of the conservative women on the campaign trail who have not only weathered the nastiest ad hominem attacks, but who have risen above them with amazing grace. Is it any wonder that women are abandoning the Democrat Party? Readers of this

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THE RADICAL SCHOOL REFORM YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF

NOVEMBER 13, 2010 With ‘parent trigger,’ families can forcibly change failing schools. By DAVID FEITH Debates about education these days tend to center on familiar terms like charter schools and merit pay. Now a new fault line is emerging: “parent trigger.” Like many radical ideas, parent trigger originated in California, as an innovation of a

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EMBARRASSMENT IN SEOUL

NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals

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THE GOP’S EARMARK NO-BRAINER

NOVEMBER 12, 2010 Sen. Jim DeMint is offering Republicans a chance to prove they meant what they said on spending. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Senate Republicans ran to midterm victory last week hitting every single high note. One week in, they risk ruining the aria with some off-key grunge. What issue could prove so important

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A GROWTH AGENDA FOR THE NEW CONGRESS – ART LAFFER

NOVEMBER 12, 2010, 4:09 P.M. ET For now: Extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal ObamaCare, support free trade. After 2012: Enact a flat tax, stabilize prices, balance the budget, give politicians incentive pay. By ARTHUR LAFFER Since its cyclical zenith in December 2007, U.S. economic production has been on its worst trajectory since the Great

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