WALL STREET JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 4, 2010 Broke—and Building the Most Expensive School in U.S. History Benches that talk, a Cocoanut Grove auditorium, and a marble slab engraved with quotes from Ted Kennedy. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Los Angeles At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in mid-Wilshire is the […]
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 The Future Palestinian State Takes Root Peace talks are making familiar headlines. The real news is economic progress in the West Bank. By HUSSEIN IBISH AND MICHAEL WEISS Many contentious issues could bedevil the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that began Wednesday, but on one subject both sides can largely agree: The state-building program launched
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 Summer of Economic Discontent The administration’s ‘summer of recovery’ has fizzled in almost every way imaginable. The growth rate is less than half what it was at this stage after the 1974-75 and 1981-82 recessions. By MICHAEL BOSKIN The Obama administration’s “summer of recovery” has morphed into a summer of economic discontent
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 Want Middle East Peace? Deny Iran Nukes Israeli-Palestinian talks are good, but Tehran’s nuclear drive continues. By SCOTT BROWN Those of us who hope for peace in the Middle East applaud the meeting of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The fact that Palestinians finally agreed to direct
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 Obama’s ‘Come Home America’ Speech A dangerous world needs stronger U.S. leadership. By KARL ROVE At times Tuesday night, it sounded as if President Barack Obama didn’t know what kind of speech he wanted to give. Was it a foreign policy address aimed at assuring a world-wide audience of America’s resolve in
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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 Americans are aware of the folly of Washington’s economic policies. By Elaine Chao, former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush ‘This is a chance to do something big, man!” So proclaimed Vice President Joe Biden in a recent Time magazine article about the Obama administration’s “all-out
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010 An Ally Remembers Defining ‘New Labour,’ defending the Iraq war, getting to know George W. Bush. By MARTIN RUBIN It is now painfully obvious that Tony Blair—the man who led Britain for a decade, who transformed the country’s dully orthodox Labour Party into dashing, moderate “New Labour,” who faced down parliamentary opponents
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AUGUST 30, 2010 The Folly of Subsidizing Unemployment My calculations suggest the jobless rate could be as low as 6.8%, instead of 9.5%, if jobless benefits hadn’t been extended to 99 weeks. By ROBERT BARRO Congressman John Boehner recently suggested that President Obama replace his top economic advisers. I think he may have a point.
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AUGUST 30, 2010 The World Trade Center Mosque and the Constitution By MARK HELPRIN The plan to erect a mosque of major proportions in what would have been the shadow of the World Trade Center involves not just the indisputable constitutional rights that sanction it, but, providentially, others that may frustrate it. Mosques have commemoratively
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AUGUST 30, 2010 After the Deluge, A New Education System Today close to 70% of New Orleans children attend charter schools. By LESLIE JACOBS New Orleans Five years ago yesterday, the levees broke. Hurricane Katrina flooded roughly 80% of this city, causing nearly $100 billion in damage. The storm forced us to rebuild our homes,
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