AUGUST 16, 2011 In a civilized society people would be allowed to defend themselves with guns, not baseball bats. By JOYCE LEE MALCOLM As wild gangs of youths burned homes, shops and cars and severely beat anyone who tried to stop them last week, English people tried to defend themselves. Their desperation triggered a 5,000% […]
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AUGUST 16, 2011 Lesson From Europe (Take 2) No, social democracy doesn’t ‘work.’ By BRET STEPHENS ‘The real lesson from Europe,” wrote Paul Krugman in January 2010, “is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works.” Here are some postcards from the social
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OFFICIALS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AND PRESIDENT’S JOBS COUNCIL EXPLORE FOURTH SECTOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH CAROLINA Meeting Agenda / Speakers Durham, N.C. – On June 12, 2011, senior officials from the White House and the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness met with a collection of business, nonprofit, government, and university officials that comprise
AUGUST 15, 2011 Notable & Quotable From an editorial on liberal social policy and the riots. From an Aug. 14 editorial in the London Telegraph: Over the past week we have witnessed the culmination of the liberal experiment. The experiment attested that two parents don’t matter; that welfare, rather than work, cures poverty; you tolerate
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AUGUST 15, 2011 All the young rioters will have had long experience with the justice system’s efforts to confer impunity upon law breakers. By THEODORE DALRYMPLE The youth of Britain have long placed a de facto curfew on the old, who in most places would no more think of venturing forth after dark than would
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White House cleanses Israel from its website http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLe_p_OwjpE&feature=player_embedded
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Mark Steyn: Lessons for us from London in flames By MARK STEYN 2011-08-12 11:30:43 The trick in this business is not to be right too early. A week ago I released my new book – the usual doom ‘n’ gloom stuff – and, just as the sensible prudent moderate chaps were about to dismiss it
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AUGUST 13, 2011 He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president. By NORMAN PODHORETZ It’s open season on President Obama. Which is to say that the usual suspects on the right (among whom I include myself) are increasingly being joined in attacking him by erstwhile worshipers on the left. Even
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August 12, 2011 The President’s Stale Sermons By Victor Davis Hanson Congress just approved the highest debt ceiling in American history, allowing the government to carry over $16 trillion in national debt – prompting the credit-rating agency Standard & Poor’s to downgrade America’s multitrillion-dollar debt for the first time in 70 years. Unemployment is still
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WALL STREET JOURNAL August 11, 2011 Emerson Electric CEO David Farr during an earnings call, Aug. 2: GDP in the U.S. grew in the first half less than 1%. . . . It’s not new news. We have to deal with it. We have a tradition in the company to deal with those things. Then
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