THE WASHINGTON TIMES Automatic cuts would undermine constitutionally mandated mission By John R. Bolton-John R. Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad” (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Wednesday, August
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IMPRIMIS – HILLSDALE COLLEGE July/August 2011 Václav Klaus President, Czech Republic The Crisis of the European Union: Causes and Significance Václav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, spoke to friends of Hillsdale College in Berlin during Hillsdale’s 2011 cruise in the Baltic Sea. The speech was delivered at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon on June 11, 2011. As
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COMMENTARYMAGAZINE.COM Answering Jonathan Alter’s Challenge Peter Wehner 08.26.2011 – “Tell me again why Barack Obama has been such a bad president?” Jonathan Alter writes in his column. Alter tells us he’s not talking here about Obama as a tactician and communicator, and he’s not interested in hearing ad hominem attacks or about people’s generalized “disappointment.”
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Defining Defense Down Gary Schmitt & Tom Donnelly August 15 – August 22, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 45 In a classic case of closing the barn door after the horses have bolted, the newly appointed secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, and retiring Joint Chiefs chairman Admiral Mike Mullen held
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Bad Luck? Bad Faith? by Charles Krauthammer (more by this author) Posted 08/19/2011 ET “We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. … But over the last six months, we’ve had a run of bad luck.” — President Obama, Decorah, Iowa, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON — A troubled nation wonders: How did
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Anti-Coopting Business Heritage Action versus the GOP establishment. Michael Warren August 15 – August 22, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 45 “I really think there’s two sides to politics,” said Mike Needham, the 29-year-old CEO of Heritage Action for America, at a Capitol Hill restaurant in April. “There’s getting
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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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