Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) What if government spending depresses instead of stimulates? Charles Wolf Jr. November 7, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 08 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Keynes assumed that the initial deficient level of aggregate demand would remain unchanged until the stimulative (“pump-priming”) effect of additional government spending kicked in. In other words, […]
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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 on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Matthew Continetti November 7, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 08 That slight dizziness you’re feeling is a contact high from the clouds of left-wing nostalgia in New York City and Washington. The anarchists, antiglobalization activists, student radicals, and sympathetic journalists gathered at Occupy Wall Street desperately are trying to recapture
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NOVEMBER 10, 2011 Barack Obama is leading us toward a cascade of proliferation in the Middle East. By MITT ROMNEY EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: In his “reset” of relations with Russia, President Obama caved in to Moscow’s demands by reneging on a missile-defense agreement with Eastern European allies and agreeing to a New Start Treaty
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NOVEMBER 10, 2011 Another Union Attack on Corporate Speech A new code of ‘best practices’ for companies to follow would serve labor’s agenda, not the interests of shareholders. By BRAD SMITH Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, holding that corporations and unions have a right to make expenditures
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NOVEMBER 10, 2011 From Greece to Italy to France, the welfare state is in crisis. In the European economic crisis, all roads lead through Rome. The markets have raised the price of financing Italy’s mammoth debt to new highs, and on Tuesday Silvio Berlusconi became the second euro-zone prime minister, after Greece’s George Papandreou, to
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Girl Scouts Goes Transgendered Posted: 10 Nov 2011 07:55 AM PST Crosstalk Home Show Information Air Date: November 10, 2011 Host: Vic Eliason Listen: MP3 | Real Audio | Windows Media | Order a CD Vic opened this edition of Crosstalk with the latest news regarding S.598, The Respect for Marriage Act, an act that
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Published on Judicial Watch (http://www.judicialwatch.org) By gstasiewicz Created 10 Nov 2011 – 3:41pm Kagan: “I hear they have the votes!! Simply amazing.” Washington, DC — November 10, 2011 Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained three new documents [1] that provide additional information about
NOVEMBER 9, 2011 For his next trick, Herbert Allison must salvage the unsalvageable. By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. The following is believed to be an acceptance letter from Herbert M. Allison, a former chief financial officer of Merrill Lynch, chosen by the White House to advise on the Department of Energy’s “green” loan program. He
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