OCTOBER 6, 2011 By JONATHAN WEISMAN Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney, whose health-care record as governor of Massachusetts has left him struggling to win the support of conservative voters, now faces another point of vulnerability: his environmental record. Just days after his 2002 election, Mr. Romney hired Douglas Foy, one of the state’s most prominent […]
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 Over 50 years, the U.S. Catholic school population has dropped by almost two-thirds. By RICHARD RIORDAN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Catholic schools infuse beliefs, values and standards that children will carry all their lives. They provide a safe learning environment for those from high-crime neighborhoods as well as structure and a faith-based
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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011, 7:14 P.M. ET North American oil production can double by 2035. By LUCIAN PUGLIARESI In response to a 2009 request from Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) reported earlier this month that oil production in North America could double by 2035—to 20 million barrels per day. Where can
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 Flat Is the New Fair Is President Obama paving the way for GOP tax reform? By STEPHEN MOORE ‘Suddenly, liberal Democrats are making the same argument about the tax code that I’ve been making for 20 years,” laughs former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey. “Welcome to the party.” Mr. Armey, who
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 If the Senate ratifies it, China will have its best weapon yet to limit U.S. action in Asia. By JOHN BOLTON And DAN BLUMENTHAL The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST)—signed by the U.S. in 1994 but never ratified by the Senate—is showing some signs of life on Capitol Hill, even as
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OCTOBER 1, 2011 School districts hire special investigators to follow kids home in order to verify their true residences. By MICHEAL FLAHERTY In case you needed further proof of the American education system’s failings, especially in poor and minority communities, consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft. That’s the charge that
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011, 7:45 A.M. ET What American ‘Political Prisoners’? An American hiker channels Noam Chomsky after two years in Iranian jail. By JAMES KIRCHICK Imagine you are Shane Bauer, one of two American hikers released from Iranian captivity last week. On July 31, 2009, you’re traversing a mountain trail in Iraqi Kurdistan, near the
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 The country’s generals behave with impunity because they believe the United States will always blink first. By SADANAND DHUME Can Pakistan be weaned off its addiction to exporting violence? Unusually blunt comments to the Senate last week by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen have spurred the latest
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 In 2007, only 11% of enlisted military recruits came from the poorest U.S. neighborhoods. By ANN MARLOWE It should no more be necessary to write this article than to prove that there were Jews killed in the World Trade Center on 9/11. And yet the mythology refuses to die. Just last week,
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011 One original sin was the separation of the corporate and personal tax, giving lawyers, accountants and the wealthy a chance to game the system. By JOHN STEELE GORDON Whether the “millionaires and billionaires” are actually paying their fair share of taxes is a matter for the electorate to decide. After all, fairness
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