The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com The Adam Smith Institute Blog Hungary, Poland, and three other nations take over citizens’ pension money to make up government budget shortfalls. Old women eat lunch in a retirement home in Budapest Dec. 13, 2010. Hungarian lawmakers rolled back a 1997 pension reform, allowing the government to effectively seize
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January 01, 2011By K.E. Campbell The biggest challenge facing Republicans in the 112th Congress is not Barack Obama. It is not Harry Reid and the Democrat-controlled Senate. It isn’t high unemployment, repealing ObamaCare, the threat of Islamism and sharia in America, the deficit, or the looming insolvency of several (mostly blue) states. These, broadly speaking,
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Government by regulation. Shhh. By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 31, 2010; Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health-care law. Well,
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How Deng Xiaoping, architect of China’s rise, defined the decade By Mallory Factor Thursday, December 30th 2010, 4:00 AM AP Deng Xiaoping in 1978. As 2010 closes, Americans might be inclined to consider Osama Bin Laden or George W. Bush as Person of the Decade. (All the better if Bin Laden would agree to pick
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The American Spectator By Jeffrey Lord on 12.28.10 “If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” — Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Sarah Palin was right. John Boehner — make that Speaker-elect of the House John Boehner — was right. While Americans were busy celebrating
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Europe’s rendezvous with monetary destiny Christopher Caldwell December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 It has been easy to snicker in recent weeks at the politicians who designed the euro, which appears on the verge of collapse after a decade as the common currency of a dozen countries in
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Obama Team’s Other Lost Election Despite the administration’s thumb on the scale, Delta doesn’t unionize. Fred Barnes December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 President Obama has done more favors, more often, for organized labor than any other president, outpacing even FDR and Harry Truman in the lightning
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Pence’s Presidential Pensées An Indiana congressman’s critique of Obamaism. Terry Eastland December 20, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 14 It may be startling to imagine the American presidency as a train that “has run off the rails.” But that’s the metaphor Indiana Republican Mike Pence chose in a speech he
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