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VIDEO – ENGLAND AND MARGARET THATCHER, “THE IRON LADY”

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HOOVER INSTITUTE UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE INTERVIEW BY PETER ROBINSON OF CHARLES MOORE, LONG-TIME BRITISH JOURNALIST This week’s video features Charles Moore, former editor of the UK Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and of the Spectator magazine. He is also the authorized biographer of the Right Honorable Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, better known as Margaret Thatcher. […]

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CHRIS CHRISTIE, AMERICA’S CAESAR

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WASHINGTON POST George F. Will Opinion Writer Chris Christie, America’s Caesar By George F. Will, Published: August 19 Trenton Near the statehouse office of New Jersey’s 55th governor sits a sort of shrine to the 34th. Fortunately, Chris Christie is unlike Woodrow Wilson. Christie, who resembles Falstaff in girth and Jack Dempsey in pugnacity, is a visceral politician who thrives

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WARREN BUFFETT’S FATHER SPOKE OUT ABOUT DANGEROUS INCREASE IN GOVERNMENT POWER IN 1956

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AUGUST 17, 2011, Howard Buffett, a Nebraska congressman and father of Warren Buffett, on how taxes curtail economic independence, December 1956. From a speech by Howard Buffett, a congressman from Nebraska (and father of Warren Buffett), reprinted in the Freeman, December 1956: The last 40 years have seen a gigantic expansion of political power over

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EXXON, U.S. GOVERNMENT DUEL OVER OIL DISCOVERY

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AUGUST 18, 2011 By RUSSELL GOLD Exxon Mobil Corp. is fighting with the U.S. government to keep control of one of its biggest oil discoveries ever, in a showdown where billions of dollars hang in the balance for both sides. The massive Gulf of Mexico discovery contains an estimated one billion barrels of recoverable oil,

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THE FALL OF THE MIDWEST ECONOMIC MODEL

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AUGUST 16, 2011 In 1970, the future seemed to belong to Michigan’s example of big companies and big unions. Not anymore. By MICHAEL BARONE President Obama has kicked off a three-day bus tour of Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, where the corn is high and at least some factories are spewing smoke. He’s holding town-hall meetings

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JEB BUSH – NEW STRATEGY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

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AUGUST 10, 2011 A New Strategy for Economic Growth Growth is not just about economics. Growth unleashes human potential. By KEVIN WARSH AND JEB BUSH As the economy continues to struggle, we are reminded of a course offered at Yale University titled “Grand Strategy.” Drawing on a weighty curriculum of history and philosophy, the course

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A DOWNGRADE AWAKENING

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AUGUST 9, 2011 Amid the market wreckage, signs of a political turn. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:  The downgrade uproar and even the market turmoil are signs that Americans aren’t about to accept economic decline gracefully. To adapt a famous phrase, a debt crisis is a terrible thing to waste During yesterday’s market meltdown, an old

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