FROM ISSUE NUMBER 7 ~ SPRING 2011 Beyond the Welfare State YUVAL LEVIN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But what seemed like the long-awaited triumph of the liberal agenda in America may actually prove to be its unraveling. When historians consider it in retrospect, the economic crisis of 2008 might well be seen as having marked […]
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April 4, 2011 What the Census Does and Doesn’t Do to Politics By Salena Zito 4/3/2011 On a frigid February morning, the Census Bureau delivered chilling news to the mayors of New York, Detroit and Chicago. A big chunk of each city’s black population had packed up and left. They took with them political clout,
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April 2, 2011 By Erin McPike LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Mitt Romney got aggressive on health care today during an appearance at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s winter meeting, training his fire on President Obama rather than answering to critics. A Massachusetts resident in the audience observed in the question-and-answer session that Romney had run what
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April 02, 2011 Simon & Schuster’s Revenge By Douglas Hackleman In 1993, thirty-three-year-old Barack Obama stiffed Poseidon Press, then an imprint of Simon & Schuster — producing absolutely nothing for the publisher that in November 1990 had given the new graduate of Harvard Law School a $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations
APRIL 2, 2011 ‘The Tyrannies Are Doomed’ The West’s leading scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, sees cause for optimism in the limited-government traditions of Arab and Muslim culture. But he says the U.S. should not push for quick, Western-style elections. By BARI WEISS Princeton, N.J. ‘What Went Wrong?” That was the explosive title
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March 31, 2011 Washington, DC—U.S. Congressman Mike Pence delivered the following speech today at a Tea Party rally at the U.S. Capitol: “I’m Mike Pence. I’m from Indiana. “To the Tea Party Patriots, Americans all, welcome back to your nation’s capitol. “With a deficit this year of $1.65 trillion and a national debt of $14
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MARCH 25, 2011 By SUDEEP REDDY WSJ’s Sudeep Reddy reveals details from the 2010 U.S. Census, including surges in the Hispanic and Asian populations, and a migration of African-Americans to the south. In a demographic shift touching every corner of the U.S., the Hispanic population grew faster than expected and accounted for more than half
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IBD Editorials By CHUCK DEVORE • DeVore served in the California Legislature from 2004 to 2010. He is a lieutenant colonel (retired) in the U.S. Army Reserve and served as a special assistant for foreign affairs in the Reagan-era Pentagon. He studied abroad at the American University in Cairo in 1984-85. 03/24/2011First in a series
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March 17, 2011 By F. Owen Smith America has become dependent on social steroids, the kind pushed under the street-name HGH, standing for Huge Government Handouts. The steroid metaphor is so aptly drawn as to make it irresistible, so with your permission I’ll develop it. Hold a photograph of the Twenties strongman Charles Atlas next
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CFR: Tea Party Dangerous, Obstructive | Print | Written by Bob Adelmann Wednesday, 09 March 2011 17:15 0 When the internationalist-minded Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) decided it was time to take a hard look at the growing influence of the Tea Party movement in America, it selected “one of the country’s leading students of American foreign
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