Fury is spreading. But the mobs ignore the real culprit behind broken economies. by Niall FergusonJuly 11, 2011 Yiorgos Karahalis / Reuters-LandovRiot police at a protest against austerity measures in Athens on June 28, 2011. This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable.
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Sarah Palin’s Notes Notes About Sarah Palin The Sugar Daddy Has Run Out of Sugar; Now We Need New Leaders by Sarah Palin on Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 6:22pm Barack Obama’s big government policies continue to fail. He should put a link to the national debt clock on his BlackBerry. The gears on that
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JULY 9, 2011 Maine’s governor picks the wrong fight with unions. By ALLYSIA FINLEY The controversy in Augusta began with an anonymous letter faxed to the office of Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage. The 7-by-36 mural in the lobby of the Department of Labor “is nothing but propaganda to further the agenda of the Union
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A Compass for Conservative Politics By JEREMY W. PETERS NY Times Published: July 10, 2011 WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Without the soupy South Florida humidity and the fastidiously clipped lawn, the Newsmax headquarters here would be a lot like one of those diners in New Hampshire and Iowa where autographed pictures of politicians cover
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Isn’t that the morally decent thing to do? Arthur C. Brooks Arthur C. Brooks is president of the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future. July 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 41 The problem with
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JULY 8, 2011 Beyond Minnesota Nice Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty brags that as governor he stared down Democrats on taxes and spending, but can he sell it to conservative voters? By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Ask Mitt Romney to opine about his time managing a blue state, and the former Massachusetts governor will mostly take
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JULY 7, 2011 Jobs in the Pipeline The EPA tries to scuttle oil transport from Canada’s tar sands. With 9.1% unemployment and gasoline prices in the stratosphere, President Obama must sometimes wish that some big corporation would suddenly show up and offer a shovel-ready, multibillion-dollar project to create 100,000 jobs and reduce U.S. reliance on
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JULY 7, 2011 Why would the fact that we associate with like-minded institutions be of interest to the attorney general? By ANDREW J. COWIN Late last month, the Connecticut think tank of which I am chairman was the subject of a bizarre complaint filed by public-union leaders. Their gripe? That the Yankee Institute is critical
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