AUGUST 16, 2011 In a civilized society people would be allowed to defend themselves with guns, not baseball bats. By JOYCE LEE MALCOLM As wild gangs of youths burned homes, shops and cars and severely beat anyone who tried to stop them last week, English people tried to defend themselves. Their desperation triggered a 5,000% […]
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AUGUST 16, 2011 Lesson From Europe (Take 2) No, social democracy doesn’t ‘work.’ By BRET STEPHENS ‘The real lesson from Europe,” wrote Paul Krugman in January 2010, “is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works.” Here are some postcards from the social
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AUGUST 15, 2011 Notable & Quotable From an editorial on liberal social policy and the riots. From an Aug. 14 editorial in the London Telegraph: Over the past week we have witnessed the culmination of the liberal experiment. The experiment attested that two parents don’t matter; that welfare, rather than work, cures poverty; you tolerate
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AUGUST 15, 2011 All the young rioters will have had long experience with the justice system’s efforts to confer impunity upon law breakers. By THEODORE DALRYMPLE The youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would
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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 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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In-state tuition for illegal immigrants could prove a tough issue for Perry By Wayne Slater / The Dallas Morning News | Thursday, July 28, 2011 | http://www.bostonherald.com | U.S. Politics Photo by AP AUSTIN, Texas — With Rick Perry’s record getting presidential-level scrutiny, one crack in his conservative credentials could pose a serious problem — signing a bill giving
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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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