Peter Wilson reports from London where there are no signs police have the rioting under control The Australian 9 August 2011 MANY commentators are on a mission to contextualise the riots that have swept parts of urban London and other British cities. “It’s very naive to look at these riots without the context,” says one
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AUGUST 9, 2011 Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The downgrade uproar and even the market turmoil are signs that Americans aren’t about to accept economic decline gracefully. To adapt a famous phrase, a debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste During yesterday’s market meltdown, an old
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AUGUST 9, 2011 A union election is a decisive event in an employee’s life, and new rules limit the information employees get before voting. By EUGENE SCALIA Government encroachments typically come as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Justice Antonin Scalia once observed, but occasionally they are brazen—then, the “wolf comes as a wolf.” The Obama
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AUGUST 9, 2011 The best way to honor our special forces is not to make them win wars on their own. By MAX BOOT I recently visited a Special Operations headquarters in the Middle East—the location, along with other details, must remain classified. I received an incredibly impressive briefing on how U.S. commandos generate intelligence,
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Jeffrey T. Kuhner Archive Friday, July 21, 2011Woes of Hanoi Jane: Dissed by the capitalist system she once condemned Hanoi Jane has been humbled. Recently, the home shopping channel QVC canceled a scheduled appearance by Jane Fonda. The actress was supposed to discuss her latest book, “Prime Time.” She is shocked and angry that QVC
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Newsmax Limbaugh on Market Collapse: Obama Engineering the Decline of America Monday, August 8, 2011 06:17 PM By: Jim Meyers Top-rated talk radio host Rush Limbaugh finds a “silver lining” in the downgrading of America’s credit rating: There no longer is any doubt that President Barack Obama can be roundly defeated in 2012. “Obamageddon —
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August 7, 2011 By Dennis Prager 7/19/2011 While liberals are certain about the moral superiority of liberal policies, the truth is that those policies actually diminish a society’s moral character. Many individual liberals are fine people, but the policies they advocate tend to make a people worse. Here are 10 reasons:1. The bigger the government,
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August 6, 2011 Where Have All the Liberals Gone? By John C. Goodman 8/6/2011 What happens when people who completely dominate the conversation have nothing to say? What happens when the people who talk the most and are listened to the most about our nation’s most serious problems do not have a plausible solution to
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REAL CLEAR POLITICS August 6, 2011 By Robert Tracinski The debt deal unhinged the left. No, the Tea Parties did not win, as the left has been saying. The spending “cuts” only limit the additional growth of government, and they are too small and too distant to be worth celebrating. But the left is correct
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Printed from the News & Observer – www.NewsObserver.com Published Thu, Aug 04, 2011 Bowles and Simpson: Now the hard work must begin BY ERSKINE BOWLES AND ALAN SIMPSON – The New York Times Last month, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders came close to an agreement that could have set our nation on a sound
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