SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 From Phoenecia to Hayek to the ‘Cloud’ Human progress has always depended on spontaneous collaboration to harness dispersed knowledge. By MATT RIDLEY The crowd-sourced, wikinomic cloud is the new, new thing that all management consultants are now telling their clients to embrace. Yet the cloud is not a new thing at all.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 Palestinian Statehood and the Lessons of Oslo The U.N. deliberations are theater. There can be no avoiding direct negotiations. By FOUAD AJAMI ‘U.N. 194″ is the slogan of the campaign to grant the Palestinians a seat at the United Nations, to recognize their authority as the 194th nation in that world body.
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EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: What I found out in my quest for political clarity was that the Republican party passed EVERY civil rights legislation in regard to black Americans, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, which was signed by a Democrat president but only passed because of a Republican congress’
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Jonathan V. Last September 5, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 47 Once upon a time we had a president who sulked that his relatively uneventful tenure denied him the chance to thrust his way into greatness. In the days after 9/11, the New York Times carried a quotation from a
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The End of the New Deal Order It won’t win the future. Matthew Continetti September 5, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 47 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The modern welfare state was born. In our era, Keller writes, political debate isn’t over how to constrain government. It’s over how to use
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IMPRIMIS – HILLSDALE COLLEGE July/August 2011 Václav Klaus President, Czech Republic The Crisis of the European Union: Causes and Significance Václav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, spoke to friends of Hillsdale College in Berlin during Hillsdale’s 2011 cruise in the Baltic Sea. The speech was delivered at Berlin’s Hotel Adlon on June 11, 2011. As
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AUGUST 30, 2011 Dick Cheney’s Wars: The Former Vice President on 9/11, Iraq and the Future Following are excerpts from former Vice President Dick Cheney’s new memoir, “In My Time,” published by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc. In the first excerpt, Mr. Cheney describes his advice to President George W. Bush
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FOX NEWS segment in 2008 – Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank block Fannie and Freddie reform
AUGUST 16, 2011 In a civilized society people would be allowed to defend themselves with guns, not baseball bats. By JOYCE LEE MALCOLM As wild gangs of youths burned homes, shops and cars and severely beat anyone who tried to stop them last week, English people tried to defend themselves. Their desperation triggered a 5,000%
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