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THREE ARTICLES ON THE LIFE OF MARGARET THATCHER

April 9, 2013 The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher Not since Catherine the Great has there been a woman of such consequence. By PAUL JOHNSON – A Historian Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around—decisively—the British economy in the 1980s,

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KYOTO – THE U.N.’S ANTICARBON SCHEME

   January 6, 2013 The Kyoto Scorecard The U.N.’s anticarbon scheme didn’t work out as planned. The Kyoto Protocol on climate change used to be a big deal. So big that the future of humanity was said to hinge on its implementation. Did you know it expired on New Year’s Day? We’re guessing you didn’t,

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OECD – RISE OF THE GLOBAL TAX COLLECTORS

   Rise of the global tax collectors Congress is giving international bureaucrats the power to intrude By Richard Rahn–  Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth The Washington Times Monday, July 9, 2012 Illustration Global Tax by Alexander Hunter for The Washington

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WOULD HARRY TRUMAN BLAME PARIS?

June 14, 2012 Here’s pro-growth advice no one in Europe will take: Stop listening to the IMF bleeders and the Obama spenders. By DANIEL HENNINGER The Europe of Charlemagne, Marco Polo and Churchill, after millennia of undoubted achievement, has finally spent itself to the verge of collapse and irrelevance. Witnessing this historic catastrophe, Barack Obama,

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PAUL KRUGMAN SCOLDED BY ESTONIAN PRESIDENT

Estonian president scolds Paul Krugman on Twitter By Liz Goodwin      June 6, 2012 National Affairs Reporter The president of Estonia’s Twitter rant. (Twitter.com) The President of Estonia slammed Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Twitter today over Krugman’s short blog post pooh-poohing the Eastern European country’s economic recovery. Krugman

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MARK STEYN: U.S., EUROPE ON DIFFERENT PATHS TO SAME PLACE

REAL CLEAR POLITICS Published: June 1, 2012 By MARK STEYN Syndicated columnist letters@ocregister.com The Eurovision Song Contest doesn’t get a lot of attention in the United States, but on the Continent it’s long been seen as the perfect Euro-metaphor. Years before the euro came along, it was the prototype pan-European institution and predicated on the

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EUROPE’S BRAIN-DEAD RIGHT

May 15, 2012, Nobody should be surprised if voters also give Angela Merkel and David Cameron the boot at the next ballot. By BRET STEPHENS Readers presumably understand that Europe’s economic crisis is also the crisis of social democracy—of the idea that markets must be made to co-exist with high levels of taxation, regulation, unionization,

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CAN OBAMA LEARN FROM THE SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIES OF SWEDEN AND CANADA?

May 14, 2012 By Warren Beatty Will Obama learn from Sweden?  Will he learn from Canada?  Or will he cling to the European socialist economic model that is currently failing? Sweden Anders Borg, Sweden’s finance minister, reduced Sweden’s deficit and created economic growth.  There is one thing that Borg did: “Since becoming Sweden’s finance minister,

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