MARCH 5, 2011 Why is the Obama administration deferring to an international body that protects brutal dictatorships? By JOHN YOO President Obama this week said “Moammar Gadhafi has lost the legitimacy to lead, and he must leave.” Yet the Obama administration continues to shun the very steps that might hasten the Libyan tyrant’s fall—imposing a […]
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MARCH 5, 2011 Over the past six decades, Egypt’s second city has morphed from cosmopolitan oasis into Islamist stronghold By MARC CHAMPION And LUCETTE LAGNADO Odette and Elie MorenoFifty years ago, women in Alexandria strolled to the beach in their bikinis (above, sunbathers at Sidi Bishr beach in 1959) Colette Frege Haggar remembers how, in
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MARCH 4, 2011 If these outfits can afford to pay lavish salaries to their heads, they don’t need taxpayer help. By JIM DEMINT When presidents of government-funded broadcasting are making more than the president of the United States, it’s time to get the government out of public broadcasting. While executives at the Public Broadcasting Service
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MARCH 4, 2011, 4:58 P.M. ET College Condemns Classroom Sex Show By KEVIN HELLIKER CHICAGO—Northwestern University reversed course on Thursday and condemned a live demonstration of sex in a classroom, after defending the act earlier in the week. “Many members of the Northwestern community are disturbed by what took place on our campus,” Northwestern President
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MARCH 3, 2011 Why is Washington blocking oil exploration in states like Alaska and Louisiana when the Middle East is such a powder keg? By SEAN PARNELL, governor of Alaska The revolution that began in Tunisia, spread to Egypt, and is now dramatically unfolding in Libya is far from over. The events in North Africa
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MARCH 3, 2011 Killing of Christian Is Second of a Blasphemy-Law Critic; Puts in Question Effectiveness of U.S. Support for Moderates By ZAHID HUSSAIN And TOM WRIGHT ISLAMABAD—Suspected Islamic militants shot dead the most senior Christian in Pakistan’s national government, in the latest sign that political moderates backed by the U.S. are failing to rein
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MARCH 1, 2011 The Massachusetts Health-Reform Mess The Bay State has shown the risks of ObamaCare. By JOHN E. CALFEE The biggest problem with ObamaCare is that it is bereft of proven ways to curtail increases in health-care costs. This has given rise to unending speculation about what will happen to these costs when the
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MARCH 2, 2011 The Decline of U.S. Naval Power Sixty ships were commonly underway in America’s seaward approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on the oceans. By MARK HELPRIN Last week, pirates attacked and executed four Americans in the Indian Ocean. We and the Europeans have endured
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FEBRUARY 28, 2011 Kim Jong II’s Nuclear Resolve A North Korean defector explains why Kim will never give up his atomic bombs. By JACK DAVID AND MELANIE KIRKPATRICK Seoul “North Korea will never give up nuclear weapons.” So says Kim Duk-hong, who should know. Mr. Kim is one of the highest-ranking North Korean officials to
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FEBRUARY 28, 2011 Collective bargaining on a broad scale is more similar to an antitrust violation than to a civil liberty. By ROBERT BARRO How ironic that Wisconsin has become ground zero for the battle between taxpayers and public- employee labor unions. Wisconsin was the first state to allow collective bargaining for government workers (in
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