THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Current Crisis By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 4.28.11 @ 6:09AM WASHINGTON — While inspecting the body politic, one encounters one clear sign that Liberalism is dead. It is the condition of our political discourse. Polite commentators note that the dialogue is “rancorous.” Some say toxic. Actually it is worse than […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Saddled up and ready to go. John McCormack April 22, 2011 11:59 AM In his column today, Charles Krauthammer sizes up the potential GOP presidential candidates and concludes by noting there’s a chance Paul Ryan could end up running in 2012: Even less likely to run — the 2016 bench
FORBES Apr. 22 2011 By PETER FERRARA A fundamental misconception about America’s welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the attitude in his book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State: “no matter how large the welfare state, liberal politicians and writers have accused it
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The status quo is far more ‘extreme’ than the Republican budget Yuval Levin April 18, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 30 Late last month, Senator Charles Schumer of New York led a conference call in which Senate Democrats briefed reporters about the ongoing budget battle. At the outset, unaware that
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APRIL 22, 2011 If government got by with 20% of GDP in 2007, why not in 2021, when GDP will be substantially higher? By JOHN B. TAYLOR Palo Alto, Calif. Americans are clamoring for a fact-based debate about the budget, but the numbers they’re hearing from Washington are terribly confusing. Here’s an example: Speaking at
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APRIL 23, 2011 By TOM LAURICELLA The U.S. dollar’s downward slide is accelerating as low interest rates, inflation concerns and the massive federal budget deficit undermine the currency. With no relief in sight for the dollar on any of those fronts, the downward pressure on the dollar is widely expected to continue. The dollar fell
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APRIL 21, 2011 The world tries to protect itself from U.S. monetary policy. Members of the International Monetary Fund emerged from their huddle in Washington last weekend resolved to keep every option open to slow the flood of dollars pouring into their countries, including capital controls. That’s a dangerous game, given the need for investment
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SeekingAlpha.com | by: Ananthan Thangavel April 19, 2011 | about: GLD Over the weekend, an announcement was made that the University of Texas endowment fund had decided to take delivery of $1 billion worth of gold. This was an absolutely huge development on multiple fronts. First, the UT endowment fund’s gold purchase was a radical deviation
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