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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March 28, 2013 Looking for Leadership A disordered world devoid of U.S. leadership is not going to produce peace and prosperity. By DANIEL HENNINGER EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE : Populism is a full-time job. The payoff is the possibility of accumulating great political power. But a populist movement led by an American president runs two big
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Biden’s $459,388.65 Hotel Bill in London ‘Approximately 136 hotel rooms for 893 room nights.’ Jeryl Bier March 22, 2013 9:46 AM Vice President Biden and his entourage spent a little time in London in early February during his first foreign trip of the second term of the Obama administration. A document released today revealed
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HUMAN EVENTS Prager: An interview with Denmark’s Salman Rushdie By: Dennis Prager March 5, 2013 This is an edited version of the edited interview with Lars Hedegaard that took place on Dennis Prager’s nationally syndicated radio show. The entire unedited interview may be heard www.facebook.com/dennisprager. DENNIS PRAGER: Are you in Copenhagen as we speak? LARS
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES HANSON: Why do societies give up? Slicing up a shrinking pie breeds class envy, then ruin By Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His new book, “The Savior Generals,” will appear this spring from Bloomsbury Press. Monday, February 18, 2013
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Guns and Pensions By Thomas Sowell – February 19, 2013 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:American warplanes were not updated to match the latest warplanes of Nazi Germany or imperial Japan. After World War II broke out, American soldiers stationed in the Philippines were fighting for their lives using rifles left over from the Spanish-American war,
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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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November 19, 2012 Investment Falls Off a Cliff U.S. Companies Cut Spending Plans Amid Fiscal and Economic Uncertainty By SUDEEP REDDY and SCOTT THURM U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery. Half of the nation’s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Power Grab Our technocratic future. Wesley J. Smith October 1, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 03 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But with the coming of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, the technocrats have broken ground for a full-bore, EU-style bureaucratic state. Leading the charge is the Independent
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