In this clip from the 1980 Free To Choose, socialist Frances Fox Piven tangles with Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. Sowell, in particular, is incisive with his discussion of “process” versus aspiration — concluding that whatever the purported social goals, liberty suffers
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A SPECIAL NOTE: TONY BLANKLEY, THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK REVIEW, DIED YESTERDAY – JANUARY 7, 2012 Chapter and verse on China’s moral predations By Tony Blankley The Washington Times Monday, November 14, 2011 BOWING TO BEIJING: HOW BARACK OBAMA IS HASTENING AMERICA’S DECLINE AND USHERING A CENTURY OF CHINESE DOMINATION By Brett M. Decker
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Hidden Persuaders The unheralded gains of the pro-life movement Fred Barnes November 7, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 08 Opponents of abortion are rarely interviewed on television these days. “It’s much harder to get on TV than it used to be,” says Charmaine Yoest, who heads Americans United for Life.
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NOVEMBER 14, 2011 Rising discontent is challenging Communist Party rule. If economic growth is supposed to enhance people’s welfare and therefore satisfaction, China in 2011 is a conundrum. The economy is on track to grow more than 9%, yet this has been a year of rising discontent. On the Chinese equivalents of Twitter, criticism of
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Lee Smith November 7, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 08 The threat against the life of the American ambassador to Syria comes during a bad streak for the Obama administration. First was the Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States and bomb the Saudi and Israeli
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Published August 22, 2011| FoxNews.com After a morning of heavy fighting near Muammar al-Qaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, the Libyan rebels’ top diplomat in London said that only 5 percent of the capital city was still controlled by forces loyal to the Libyan leader, though Qaddafi’s whereabouts remained unknown. Qaddafi’s regime, meanwhile, was crumbling. Libya’s prime
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JUNE 20, 2011 Postwar Jewish refugees left everything they had in Europe—no ‘right of return’ requested. By WARREN KOZAK EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Golda Meir is credited with having said that if the Jews had not fought back against the Arab armies and had been destroyed in 1948, they would have received the most beautiful
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MAY 13, 2011 Screams in Homs but forbearance around the world. Hearty salutations and reassurances from Damascus. After killing more than 600 (and counting) and arresting and injuring thousands more in a seven week crackdown, the Syrian regime wants you to know that it thinks it has the upper hand over protestors. And Bashar Assad
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