May 9, 2013 Harrison H. Schmitt and William Happer: In Defense of Carbon Dioxide The demonized chemical compound is a boon to plant life and has little correlation with global temperature. By HARRISON H. SCHMITT AND WILLIAM HAPPER Mr. Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was an Apollo 17 […]
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May 6, 2013 An ObamaCare Penalty on Hospitals This approach to reducing Medicare patient readmissions will have unintended consequences. By STEPHEN SOUMERAI AND ROSS KOPPEL Dr. Soumerai is a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute. Dr. Koppel, a professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, conducts health-care
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April 29, 2013 Uncertainty Is the Enemy of Recovery At Vanguard, we estimate that policy uncertainty has created a $261 billion drag on the U.S. economy. By BILL MCNABB Mr. McNabb is chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group. EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Investor anxiety is a critical component in all of this. We’d
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May 1, 2013 The Case for Pre-Emptive War, From Goliath to the Dardanelles Some lessons for Israel as it contemplates an attack on Iran’s nuclear program. By ANDREW ROBERTS When—and it is most probably now a question of when, rather than if—Israel is forced to bomb Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities, the Israeli government will immediately
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April 24, 2013 The Terrorist’s Sojourn in a Most Dangerous Place Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent seven months in Dagestan, where the capital sees violent attacks weekly, if not daily. By GLEN E. HOWARD Mr. Howard is president of the Jamestown Foundation EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE: Equally important: In less than a year, the U.S. and other
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April 10, 2013 Benghazi’s Portent and the Decline of U.S. Military Strength Ten more Marines per ship won’t matter if there aren’t ships in the Mediterranean Sea to deploy from. By MARK HELPRIN Mr. Helprin is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and the author, most recently, of the novel “In Sunlight and
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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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April 8, 2013 Reflections of a Medical Ex-Practitioner The glow of the personal relationship with patients is being extinguished. By ED MARSH A fundamental principle in medicine is that if you get the diagnosis wrong, you’ll probably apply the wrong therapy. A corollary is that if the therapy isn’t working, increasing the dose may make
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March 29, 2013 Liz Cheney: Republicans, Get Over the 2012 Loss—and Start Fighting Back Those who counsel that the GOP should move left are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both. By LIZ CHENEY Ms. Cheney is chairman of Keep America Safe, a nonprofit organization focused on national security issues and education. She was a principal
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April 3, 2013 The Time Has Come for U.S. Airstrikes in Syria If the country becomes a failed state, the biggest winner will be al Qaeda. Our allies will be the losers. By JOSEPH LIEBERMAN Mr. Lieberman is a former four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut In response to recent reports that the Assad regime
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