MARCH 22, 2011 Lower taxes and a strong dollar could spur growth once again. By STEVE FORBES Today, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Manhattan Institute and The Wall Street Journal will host a morning seminar concerning the economic legacy of Ronald Reagan. The get-together couldn’t be timelier. Reagan came into the White House facing […]
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MARCH 15, 2011 They’re drilling for oil, attracting high tech, and keeping the tax burden moderate. Result: 3.8% unemployment. By JOEL KOTKIN Living on the harsh, wind-swept northern Great Plains, North Dakotans lean towards the practical in economic development. Finding themselves sitting on prodigious pools of oil—estimated by the state’s Department of Mineral Resources at
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MARCH 11, 2011 The perils of following us toward greater regulation, higher taxes and centralized power. By DANIEL HANNAN On a U.S. talk-radio show recently, I was asked what I thought about the notion that Barack Obama had been born in Kenya. “Pah!” I replied. “Your president was plainly born in Brussels.” American conservatives have
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MARCH 15, 2011 Banking’s Scourge on Charm Offensive By VICTORIA MCGRANE And MAYA JACKSON RANDALL Elizabeth Warren has earned a reputation as the scourge of the financial industry. Banks used “tricks and traps” to carry out a “massive looting from middle-class families,” the Harvard professor and consumer advocate has said. She slammed Wall Street chiefs
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This C-Span video on Representative Young’s speech is from July 9, 2008 – that was over 2 years ago and still no action has been taken
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U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TED POE, REPUBLICAN, OF TEXAS
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MARCH 4, 2011 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL The Obama administration has its share of headaches: a possible government shutdown, Arab unrest, the union uprising. The real migraine may be a firestorm over gasoline prices. Oil last week topped $100 a barrel, and gas has hit $4 a gallon in pockets of the country. The price
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MARCH 3, 2011 Why is Washington blocking oil exploration in states like Alaska and Louisiana when the Middle East is such a powder keg? By SEAN PARNELL, governor of Alaska The revolution that began in Tunisia, spread to Egypt, and is now dramatically unfolding in Libya is far from over. The events in North Africa
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MARCH 1, 2011 The Massachusetts Health-Reform Mess The Bay State has shown the risks of ObamaCare. By JOHN E. CALFEE The biggest problem with ObamaCare is that it is bereft of proven ways to curtail increases in health-care costs. This has given rise to unending speculation about what will happen to these costs when the
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Environmental activists have yet to meet an energy project they won’t try to stop. Adam J. White February 28, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 23 “Sputnik” was not the only nostalgic moment in the State of the Union address. When President Obama called on Congress to “invest” in “clean energy
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