The Wall Street Journal is making it very difficult to forward their articles in print mode as I have always done. Some of you have told me that the links do not always open up for you. Please give me some feedback if you are having difficulty opening up the links. I am persisting in […]
THE YEAR OF THE WASHINGTON POWER GRAB AND COMMON CORE DOESN’T ADD UP TO STEM SUCCESS Read More »
September 21, 2013 Bob Funk: Where the Jobs Are—and How to Get One The man who matches companies with workers talks about the skills gap, the harm from ObamaCare, and the incentive not to work. But he’ll still find you a job. Oklahoma City Here’s something you don’t often see in Washington: a businessman
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Conservatism on Top Down Under Meet Tony Abbott, the likely next prime minister of Australia Fred Barnes September 2, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 48 Melbourne Absent a stunning reversal of fortune, Tony Abbott is a good bet to be the next prime minister of Australia. He’s the head
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August 12, 2013 The Clinton-Era Roots of the Financial Crisis Affordable-housing goals established in the 1990s led to a massive increase in risky, subprime mortgages. By PHIL GRAMM AND MIKE SOLONMr. Gramm, a former Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is senior partner of US Policy Metrics and a visiting scholar at the
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April 9, 2013 The World-Changing Margaret Thatcher Not since Catherine the Great has there been a woman of such consequence. By PAUL JOHNSON – A Historian Margaret Thatcher had more impact on the world than any woman ruler since Catherine the Great of Russia. Not only did she turn around—decisively—the British economy in the 1980s,
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March 30, 2013 The Debt Bomb That Taxpayers Won’t See Coming State and local governments owe $7.3 trillion in promises they’ve made that were never approved by taxpayers. By STEVEN MALANGA Mr. Malanga is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. This column is adapted from a forthcoming issue of City Journal, where he
March 28, 2013 Laffer and Moore: The Red-State Path to Prosperity Blue states with high taxes are struggling to compete for businesses and workers. By ARTHUR B. LAFFER AND STEPHEN MOORE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Among the 10 fastest-growing metro areas last year were Raleigh, Austin, Las Vegas, Orlando, Charlotte, Phoenix, Houston, San Antonio
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Unrequited Love The unions went all in for Obama. What’s he done for them? Mark Hemingway March 4, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 24 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Since 2008, unions have doled out more than $1 billion in campaign cash, including over $400 million in 2012. And that’s
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February 1, 2013 Immigration’s Poison Pill: Big Labor Unions have long used Democratic allies to kill any reform that includes a guest-worker program. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: That loathing has extended to recent immigration debates, in which Big Labor has used Democratic allies to kill reform. One of their top go-to
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The right-to-work dilemma By Charles Krauthammer, Published: December 13 For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan this week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state, birthplace of the United Auto Workers, royalty of the American working class, became right-to-work. It’s shocking, except that it
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