FORBES Apr. 22 2011 By PETER FERRARA A fundamental misconception about America’s welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the attitude in his book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State: “no matter how large the welfare state, liberal politicians and writers have accused it
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The status quo is far more ‘extreme’ than the Republican budget Yuval Levin April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Late last month, Senator Charles Schumer of New York led a conference call in which Senate Democrats briefed reporters about the ongoing budget battle. At the outset, unaware that
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Europe’s common foreign policy is dead on arrival. James Kirchick April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Brussels It’s supposed to be the crowning achievement of the decades-long dream that is European integration: Last December, the European Union inaugurated its European External Action Service (EEAS). Intended to implement the
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APRIL 22, 2011 Hounded by taxes and regulations, employers in the once-Golden State are moving East. By John Fund Austin, Texas It wasn’t your usual legislative hearing. A group of largely Republican California lawmakers and Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom traveled here last week to hear from businesses that have left their state to set
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HUMANEVENTS.COM Obama Is Taking Care of Business by John Hayward (more by this author) Posted 04/21/2011 ET Updated 04/21/2011 ET Reuters has a report today that says “Moammar Qaddafi has consolidated his position in central and western Libya enough to maintain an indefinite standoff with rebels trying to end his four-decade rule,” according to U.S. and European
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stand With Iraq Frederick W. Kagan and Kimberly Kagan April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Defense Secretary Robert Gates was in Baghdad last week on what was probably his last official trip to the country he helped save from devastating sectarian war. His visit was hardly a victory
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com By Andrew C. McCarthy Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, is the author, most recently, of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America April 16, 2011 The Audience Is Listening Obama gives jihadists the olive branch and Ryan the hickory
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APRIL 14, 2011 The author of “Atlas Shrugged” was an individualist, not a conservative, and she knew big business was as much a threat to capitalism as government bureaucrats. By DONALD L. LUSKIN Tomorrow’s release of the movie version of “Atlas Shrugged” is focusing attention on Ayn Rand’s 1957 opus and the free-market ideas it
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Daniel Halper April 13, 2011 4:16 PM House Budget chairman Paul Ryan just released the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech on deficit reduction: “When the President reached out to ask us to attend his speech, we were expecting an olive branch. Instead, his speech was excessively
