APRIL 5, 2011, 3:09 P.M. ET By JURO OSAWA and YOREE KOH in Tokyo and DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI in Kesennuma, Japan WSJ’s Yumiko Ono reports on fears surrounding the Japanese’s government’s decision to dump more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Heard on the Street Tepco’s Crisis Should Power Utility Deals Earthquake […]
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APRIL 5, 2011 The GOP Path to Prosperity Our budget cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president’s budget over the next 10 years and puts the nation on track to pay off our national debt. By PAUL D. RYAN Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less
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APRIL 2, 2011 ‘The Tyrannies Are Doomed’ The West’s leading scholar of the Middle East, Bernard Lewis, sees cause for optimism in the limited-government traditions of Arab and Muslim culture. But he says the U.S. should not push for quick, Western-style elections. By BARI WEISS Princeton, N.J. ‘What Went Wrong?” That was the explosive title
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APRIL 1, 2011 More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. By STEPHEN MOORE If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice
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MARCH 31, 2011 Obama Bungles the Libya Speech The president seems irresolute and unreliable, even when doing the right thing. By KARL ROVE Wars, even good ones, require worthy explanation and justification. Both were missing in President Obama’s address to the nation on Monday night. While the president’s speech on Libya was adequate at times,
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MARCH 31, 2011 An assault on Estonia in 2007 disrupted banking and other services for over a week. By WARREN GETLER Last week, the European Union revealed that its headquarters had come under a major cyber attack, likely state-sponsored, on the eve of the EU summit. Earlier this month, the French announced that they had
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MARCH 30, 2011 Everyone in Washington knows how to cut spending. The time to start is now. By MARCO RUBIO Americans have built the single greatest nation in all of human history. But America’s exceptionalism was not preordained. Every generation has had to confront and solve serious challenges and, because they did, each has left
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MARCH 29, 2011 Norway to Jews: You’re Not Welcome Here Anti-Semitism doesn’t even mask itself as anti-Zionism. By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ I recently completed a tour of Norwegian universities, where I spoke about international law as applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But the tour nearly never happened. Its sponsor, a Norwegian pro-Israel group, offered to
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MARCH 27, 2011 Defense Secretary Gates says Iran isn’t winning in the Middle East and explains why he regrets a much-quoted line in his recent speech at West Point. By BRET STEPHENS Aboard the National Airborne Operations Center Robert Gates is a compact and unassuming man, but a U.S. secretary of defense does not travel
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MARCH 28, 2011 The incremental approach is working and embarrassing Democrats. Why should the GOP risk a government shutdown? By FRED BARNES Some of the most disgruntled folks in Washington these days are conservative Republicans in Congress. They believe their party has abandoned the cause of deep spending cuts that spurred the Republican landslide in
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