DECEMBER 16, 2011 And the Crisis Winner Is? Government From Greece to Washington to New York state, there’s no effective mechanism to control spending. By DAVID MALPASS Mr. Malpass, a deputy assistant Treasury secretary in the Reagan administration, is president of Encima Global LLC EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Governments on both sides of the Atlantic […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Occupational Therapy A movement custom-designed to hurt liberals. Noemie Emery December 19, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 14 “God, I love ’em,” wrote Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post not long after the glorious dawning of Occupy Wall Street, saying that the protests “arise at just the right moment and
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Nightmare of a Dream Team Obama’s intellectuals. Andrew Ferguson December 19, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 14 Is it possible that the people who run the Obama administration aren’t as smart as we’ve been led to believe? Stay with me here, seriously. I’m thinking now of the administration’s much-publicized
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DECEMBER 19, 2011 In freedom lies the risk of failure. But in statism lies the certainty of stagnation. By JEB BUSH Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: “The right to rise.” Think about it. We talk about the right to free speech, the right to
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Unchanging Science Among other things the global warming crusaders got wrong: skepticism is a virtue, not a vice. Joseph Bottum and William Anderson November 28, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 11EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Perhaps the greatest reason for any of us to feel skepticism about climate change, however, is
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com by Dennis Prager November 8, 2011 Optimistic or Pessimistic about America? It will depend on the outcome of the 2012 election. Commentary magazine asked 41 Americans to respond to the question: “Are you optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future?” The responses, including my own, appear in the current issue of Commentary. As
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WASHINGTON POST Obama’s campaign for class resentment By Charles Krauthammer, Published: December 8 In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn’t alleviated the nation’s economic pain, he’d be a “one-term proposition.” When three-quarters of Americans think the country is on the “wrong track” and even Bill Clinton
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DECEMBER 6, 2011 If the Lights Go Out Regulators are letting EPA compromise U.S. electric reliability. Say what you will about Obama Administration regulators, their problem has rarely been a failure to regulate. Which makes the abdication of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission especially notable—and dangerous for the U.S. power supply. Last week FERC convened
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DECEMBER 8, 2011 The president sounds more like a Corleone than a Roosevelt. By DANIEL HENNINGER Most press accounts of Barack Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, Tuesday described it as delivered by the “president of the United States.” And indeed the person delivering it analogized himself to Presidents Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and
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