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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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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WASHINGTON TIMES WILDERS: Resisting threat of fanatical Islam West must not surrender permanent liberty for temporary tolerance By Geert Wilders Friday, May 4, 2012 As I write these lines, there are police bodyguards at the door. No visitor can enter my office without passing through several security checks and metal detectors. I have been marked
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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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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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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Demography Is Destiny The perils of population loss. Jonathan V. Last April 23, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 30 The world is heading for demographic catastrophe. Fertility rates have been falling across the globe for 40 years, to the point where, today, Israel is the only First World country where
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DECKER: Obama’s French auto bailout Government Motors buys a stake in sputtering Peugeot By Brett M. Decker– The Washington Times Wednesday, March 28, 2012 This April 21, 2009, file photo shows General Motors Co. world headquarters in Detroit. A confident General Motors has added 20 million shares of preferred stock to its initial public offering,
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March 16, 2012, A Bitter Lesson in Basketball and Terrorism By STEPHEN MOORE ‘That was the most bitter and painful experience of my life,” observes Tom McMillen. “What happened in Munich was the most controversial and tragic sports competition in modern times.” Mr. McMillen is a former college and NBA basketball star, Rhodes scholar, three-term
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