April 9, 2013 The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher Not since Catherine the Great has there been a woman of such consequence. By PAUL JOHNSON – A Historian Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around—decisively—the British economy in the 1980s, […]
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March 28, 2013 Looking for Leadership A disordered world devoid of U.S. leadership is not going to produce peace and prosperity. By DANIEL HENNINGER EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE : Populism is a full-time job. The payoff is the possibility of accumulating great political power. But a populist movement led by an American president runs two big
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March 29, 2013 Liz Cheney: Republicans, Get Over the 2012 Loss—and Start Fighting Back Those who counsel that the GOP should move left are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both. By LIZ CHENEY Ms. Cheney is chairman of Keep America Safe, a nonprofit organization focused on national security issues and education. She was a principal
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Complete Package Ronald Reagan, the great narrator. Fred Barnes February 18, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 22 In February 1981, President Reagan was searching for ways to win support for spending cuts. He’d been president less than a month. The national debt was closing in on $1 trillion and
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March 2, 2013 Psalm 23, Newly Revised According to Modern Principles Proverbial wisdom for the Age of Obama. By MARK HELPRIN Mr. Helprin is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and the author, most recently, of the novel “In Sunlight and In Shadow” (Harcourt, 2012) Yea, though I walk through the valley of
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Please scroll down to the bottom of the article to read Ronald Reagan’s impromptu remarks at the close of the 1976 Republican convention. Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Republican Party in Opposition William Kristol January 28, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 19 In March 1975, with the United States in post-Watergate disarray at
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January 3, 2013 Henninger: Repealing Reagan After trying for 25 years, the Left finally unwinds the Reagan tax legacy. By DANIEL HENNINGER EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Amid the seven growth years of the Reagan presidency, a who’s who of great American companies was born. In Barack Obama’s first four years, the number is about
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Real Cliff The staggering debt from decades of continuous government borrowing is about to come due Christopher DeMuth Christopher DeMuth is a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute. December 24, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 15 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp were authentic supply-siders,
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