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LESSON FROM EUROPE

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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THE BARBARIANS INSIDE BRITAIN’S GATES

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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CULTURE ROT – AFTER THE LONDON RIOTS – PEGGY NOONAN

AUGUST 13, 2011 Après le Déluge, What? Riots and flash mobs have root causes that government can’t reach. By PEGGY NOONAN The riots in Britain left some Americans shaken. In the affluence of the past 40 years, and with the rise of the jumbo jet, we became a nation of travelers. We have been to

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WHAT HAPPENED TO OBAMA? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

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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ANARCHY IN THE UK – CULTURE ROT

Peter Wilson reports from London where there are no signs police have the rioting under control The Australian      9 August 2011 MANY commentators are on a mission to contextualise the riots that have swept parts of urban London and other British cities. “It’s very naive to look at these riots without the context,” says one

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LIBERALISM IN AMERICA DIED IN THE MID 1970’S

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

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THE PECULIAR MADNESS OF PAUL KRUGMAN

REAL CLEAR POLITICS August 6, 2011 By Robert Tracinski The debt deal unhinged the left. No, the Tea Parties did not win, as the left has been saying. The spending “cuts” only limit the additional growth of government, and they are too small and too distant to be worth celebrating. But the left is correct

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EURO DREAM THREATENS TO BECOME NIGHTMARE

IrishTimes.com DAN O’BRIEN Sat, Aug 06, 2011 ANALYSIS: LAST WEEKEND the world’s attention was on Washington DC as America’s politicians peered into the abyss of sovereign default. On Sunday they stepped back. This weekend attention is on Rome and Madrid. Politicians in those two capitals are sliding towards the same abyss. But there is a

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