March 13, 2012 California’s Greek Tragedy No one should write off the Golden State. But it will take massive reforms to reverse its economic decline. By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN and JOHN F. COGAN Long a harbinger of national trends and an incubator of innovation, cash-strapped California eagerly awaits a temporary revenue surge from Facebook IPO […]
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March 13, 2012 Three years into America’s post-World War II drawdown,not a single U.S. nuclear bomber could hit a large, undefended target in Ohio. By WARREN KOZAK EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: But it turned out that many of the planes couldn’t even take off. The best mechanics had left the service for higher-paying and easier
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What North Dakota Could Teach California March 11, 2012, While one plays host to a modern-day Gold Rush, the other shuns evil fossil fuels and wallows in debt. By STEPHEN MOORE Williston, N.D. In his speech last week responding to high gas prices, President Barack Obama insisted that “we can’t just drill our way out
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Updated March 9, 2012, 7:17 p.m. ET Humans are born with the curiosity of scientists but switch to investment banking. By BRIAN BOLDUC New York By 2020, the word “computer” will have vanished from the English language, physicist Michio Kaku predicts. Every 18 months, computer power doubles, he notes, so in eight years, a microchip
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March 9, 2012 Just as Jews were once expelled from Arab lands, Christians are now being forced from countries they have long inhabited. By MICHAEL OREN The church in Bethlehem had survived more than 1,000 years, through wars and conquests, but its future now seemed in jeopardy. Spray-painted all over its ancient stone walls were
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March 1, 2012 Ryan’s Medicare Revolution With little fanfare, the Wisconsin Republican congressman has persuaded presidential candidates and even some Democrats. By FRED BARNES Over the past year, an entitlement revolution has taken place on Capitol Hill. It has gotten relatively little attention from the media. Yet its implications for the budget deficit and the
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FEBRUARY 28, 2012, Promoting the Jewish State’s destruction at a school dedicated to ‘democratic governance.’ By RUTH WISSEMs. Wisse, a professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard, is the author of “Jews and Power” (Schocken, 2007). In 1948, when the Arab League declared war on Israel, no one imagined that six decades later American
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FEBRUARY 27, 2012 Thousands Form Human Chain in Novel Spectacle a Week Before Russian Voters Are Set to Elect Him President Again By RICHARD BOUDREAUX and ALEXANDER KOLYANDR MOSCOW—Muscovites wearing white ribbons ventured out under a light snow Sunday and created a festive spectacle like nothing anyone remembers seeing before in the Russian capital. They
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FEBRUARY 23, 2012 ‘First, I will make an across-the-board, 20% reduction in marginal individual income tax rates.’ By MITT ROMNEY When generations of immigrants looked up and saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time, they surely had many questions and doubts about the life before them. Yet one thing they knew without a
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WALL STREET JOURNAL February 21, 2012 By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian
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