MAY 20, 2011 A candidate who is timid on entitlement reform is not qualified to lead the country. By DICK ARMEY AND MATT KIBBE Medicare reform has risen to the top of the national agenda and will be the defining issue of next year’s elections. The outcome of this debate will greatly shape America’s fiscal […]
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MAY 20, 2011 James Grant believes a resumption of dollar-gold convertibility could be possible. By SETH LIPSKY It’s been 25 years since I found myself sitting in the office of Karl Otto Poehl, the president of the West German Bundesbank. I was then a young editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal intent on asking
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MAY 20, 2011 As Socialists Risk Losing Key Areas, Economists Fear ‘Hidden’ Bills By JONATHAN HOUSE And SARA SCHAEFER MUñOZ ReutersDemonstrators fill up Madrid’s famous Puerta del Sol in a protest against authorities’ handling of the economic crisis on Thursday. MADRID—Weekend elections that threaten to drive Spain’s ruling Socialist party from power in several regions
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April 2011 Ken Cuccinelli Attorney General of Virginia KEN CUCCINELLI was elected the Attorney General of Virginia in November 2009. From 2002-2009 he was a member of the Virginia State Senate. Prior to that he was a partner in the law firm of Cuccinelli and Day, where he specialized in business law. A graduate of the
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May 19, 2011 by Frank Roche OBAMA’S OFFERS THE MIDDLE EAST UTOPIA A Liberal Utopia: President Obama’s vision of North Africa and the Middle East. The President gave his highly anticipated “Middle East” speech today at the US State Department in Washington, DC. It described a world that can most easily be seen through rose
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MAY 17, 2011 Newt undermines his former comrades on Medicare. The Republican Presidential campaign is off to a slow start, but judging by the last week not slow enough. First Mitt Romney defends his ObamaCare prototype in Massachusetts, and now Newt Gingrich has decided to run against House Republicans on Medicare. They must be loving
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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE Paul Ryan (R-WI). (Tribune file photo) By Paul RyanMay 16, 2011 Despite Washington coming to grips with the fact that the debt threat is real, policymakers still are not having the debate Americans deserve. The talk is too often restricted to “shared sacrifice.” This sets up a debate where we are really
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MAY 14, 2011 Education spending and student-teacher ratio are about where they were in 2004. The real problem is that tax dollars are being diverted for teacher benefits. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Fullerton, Calif. Thousands of California teachers turned out this week to protest potential budget cuts to education and to urge lawmakers to raise taxes.
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