Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Time for Another Harding? How a much-derided Republican president actually succeeded in cutting the budget and fixing the economy. Allis Radosh and Ronald Radosh October 24, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 06 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Dawes penned a warning: “Some day, a President, if he is to save the […]
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The global debt apocalypse approaches. David M. Smick October 31, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 07 On the issue of public debt, Washington is experiencing what psychologists call “learned helplessness.” The financial news is so relentlessly terrible that people have become numb to it and assume nothing can be done
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OCTOBER 24, 2011 With the economy sinking in 1937, Roosevelt accused business of sabotage. By PAUL MORENO President Obama is cozying up to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, intending to make resentment of big business a central theme of his re-election campaign. Here he’s following the lead of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who tried to convince
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson October 19, 2011 Grand ahistorical apologies for others can obscure one’s own actual sins. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But such distancing is tricky. It opens a Pandora’s box of flawed assumptions. Is any nation free of sin? Apologizing for both ancient American sins and George W. Bush’s more
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OCTOBER 19, 2011 FROM TEHRAN TO TIJUANA Time to notice Iran’s decades-old infiltration of Latin America. By BRET STEPHENS EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: policy analysts, military officials and even a few columnists have been warning for years about Iran’s infiltration of Latin America. The story begins with the 1992 bombing of the Israeli Embassy in
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OCTOBER 17, 2011 Capital gains tax cuts, deregulation to allow easier investment in growth companies, and the protection of intellectual property created a boom. By AMITY SHLAES Sometimes two separate news events turn out to be related. That’s the case with the Wall Street protesters and the extraordinary mourning at the death of Steve Jobs.
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 If the Senate ratifies it, China will have its best weapon yet to limit U.S. action in Asia. By JOHN BOLTON And DAN BLUMENTHAL The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)—signed by the U.S. in 1994 but never ratified by the Senate—is showing some signs of life on Capitol Hill, even as
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 One original sin was the separation of the corporate and personal tax, giving lawyers, accountants and the wealthy a chance to game the system. By JOHN STEELE GORDON Whether the “millionaires and billionaires” are actually paying their fair share of taxes is a matter for the electorate to decide. After all, fairness
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Victor Davis Hanson September 22, 2011 12:00 A.M. The country has never been in more danger. Will Israel survive? That question hasn’t really been asked since 1967. Then, a far weaker Israel was surrounded on all sides by Arab dictatorships that were equipped with sophisticated weapons from their nuclear patron, the
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