AUGUST 16, 2011 Ruby Red Tape A case study in the costs of regulation, from Opal to Oregon. The abstraction known as “regulation” is often invoked as a reason businesses aren’t growing or hiring fast enough, and with good reason. Anyone wondering what that means in practice should consult the epic saga of the Ruby […]
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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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White House cleanses Israel from its website http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLe_p_OwjpE&feature=player_embedded
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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
WHAT HAPPENED TO OBAMA? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Read More »
– Big Government – http://biggovernment.com – If We Let the Government Take Our Guns, We’ll Have to Run and Hide Like Londoners Posted By AWR Hawkins On August 10, 2011 @ 12:29 pm When England banned the private ownership of handguns within its borders, I remember the National Rifle Association (NRA) airing videos of steamrollers
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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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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
LIBERALISM IN AMERICA DIED IN THE MID 1970’S Read More »
AUGUST 6, 2011 Liberal contempt for the workings of democracy and for diversity of opinion reflects not just hypocrisy but panic. By PETER BERKOWITZ The debt-limit crisis of 2011 brought the federal government harrowingly close to defaulting on its financial obligations. As the dust settles, it is more harrowing still to contemplate the implications of
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