DECEMBER 6, 2010 We should think of cyberattacks as guided missiles and respond similarly—intercept them and retaliate. By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Not many people realize that all of our nation’s air, land and sea forces rely on network technologies that are vulnerable to cyberweapons, including logistics, command and control, fleet positioning and […]
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DECEMBER 1, 2010 Italy, Spain See Bonds Sink, Portugal Faces Rating Cut as Faith in Rescue Ebbs By MARCUS WALKER And BRIAN BLACKSTONE Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesIn Rome, students protesting spending cuts clashed with police Investors dismissed European leaders’ latest attempt to restore market calm, raising doubts about whether governments can rebuild confidence in the region’s
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NOVEMBER 20, 2010 Revolutionary Do-Over By JOHN FUND An old Washington story goes that when Martians land near the White House, everyone inside the Beltway flees in terror. Everyone, that is, except for the folks at the favor-factories known as Congress’s Appropriations Committees, who rush to greet the spaceship and say, “We’re here to help
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NOVEMBER 18, 2010 In 1933, Americans ratified the 20th Amendment to eliminate lame duck Congresses. For two decades Washington has been ignoring its intent. By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Americans ought to make this lame duck session of Congress the last in history. Members who lose re-election have no moral authority to continue governing: They were fired
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NOVEMBER 17, 2010 Who better to host the debate over sound money in Congress than the Fed’s most persistent critic? By SETH LIPSKY One of the most exciting features of the new Congress is the prospect that the chairmanship of a House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve will go to Ron Paul. Final assignments
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Old Problems With New Start The Senate shouldn’t ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty without guarantees that the administration will modernize weapons and improve missile defense. By R. JAMES WOOLSEY A number of years negotiating arms-control agreements with the Soviets taught me that, when dealing with Russian counterparts, don’t appear eager—friendly
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Irish Resist EU’s Push to Accept a Rescue By MARCUS WALKER,BRIAN BLACKSTONE And NEIL SHAH Europe’s debt crisis entered a critical new phase as Ireland resisted pressure from the European Central Bank and national governments to seek a bailout amid growing concern that the currency bloc could unravel. Ireland fiercely denied that
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NOVEMBER 15, 2010 Fresh Attack on Fed Move GOP Economists, Lawmakers Call for Abandoning $600 Billion Bond Purchase By PETER WALLSTEN And SUDEEP REDDY WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve’s latest attempt to boost the U.S. economy is coming under fire from Republican economists and politicians, threatening to yank the central bank deeper into partisan politics. A group
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NOVEMBER 13, 2010 With ‘parent trigger,’ families can forcibly change failing schools. By DAVID FEITH Debates about education these days tend to center on familiar terms like charter schools and merit pay. Now a new fault line is emerging: “parent trigger.” Like many radical ideas, parent trigger originated in California, as an innovation of a
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010, 4:09 P.M. ET For now: Extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal ObamaCare, support free trade. After 2012: Enact a flat tax, stabilize prices, balance the budget, give politicians incentive pay. By ARTHUR LAFFER Since its cyclical zenith in December 2007, U.S. economic production has been on its worst trajectory since the Great
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