AUGUST 28, 2010 From the Killing Fields to the Tea Party A Cambodian refugee and self-described Reagan Republican runs for Congress in the Bay State. By MICHAEL MOYNIHAN Lowell, Mass. Sam Meas isn’t your typical congressional candidate. For one thing, the Cambodian refugee doesn’t know his birthday. “I tell people I am 38 years old— […]
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 Dear Patients: Vote to Repeal ObamaCare Don’t believe Democrats who promise to fix the bill once they’re re-elected. By HAL SCHERZ Facing a nationwide backlash, Democratic congressional candidates have a new message for voters: We know you don’t like ObamaCare, so we’ll fix it. This was the line offered by Democrat Mark
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AUGUST 28, 2010 A Senator and His ‘Disciples’ The Senate’s stalwart opponent of big government is intent on electing some allies this year. His new PAC and growing anti-Obama sentiment mean he just might succeed. By STEVE MOORE ‘I’d rather lose with Pat Toomey than win with Arlen Specter any day.” That’s South Carolina Republican
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AUGUST 31, 2010 The Surge and Afghanistan Unless he understands the reason for success in Iraq, the president is unlikely to lead a successful strategy against the Taliban. By JOHN MCCAIN Today President Obama will deliver a major speech to mark the draw down of U.S. forces in Iraq to 50,000 troops. He will likely
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AUGUST 31, 2010 TARP and the Continuing Problem of Toxic Assets It was a bold bet that the Treasury and Fed could engineer an economic recovery without allowing the repricing of U.S. housing stock. By ANDY KESSLER We should have eaten those toxic assets instead of sweeping them under the carpet. The Troubled Asset Relief
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AUGUST 31, 2010 Reading, Writing, Radical Change Abolish tenure, require more teaching, put star professors online. By NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY When Mark Taylor’s children were growing up, he made them write a three-page paper once a week each summer between sixth grade and college. “It could be on any subject they chose, and the only
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AUGUST 31, 2010, 7:26 A.M. ET Glenn Beck’s Happy Warriors You probably couldn’t have found a more polite crowd at the opera. By JAMES FREEMAN Washington, D.C. Pundits will debate whether the crowd at Glenn Beck’s Saturday rally in Washington was the largest in recent political history, but it was certainly among the most impressive.
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AUGUST 26, 2010 America’s Armed Forces are drawn from an increasingly narrow segment of society. By GARY SCHMITT AND CHERYL MILLER The nearly three million members of the U.S. Armed Forces have been at war for nearly a decade. While combat troops are being withdrawn from Iraq, surge forces are still deploying in Afghanistan and
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AUGUST 26, 2010 The IRS Targets Incompetent Tax Preparers That’s good news. But the agency is going overboard By BRAD SHERMAN AND MICHAEL CONAWAY The IRS is out to do something nice for us by ensuring we get quality help when we hire someone to prepare our tax returns. Unfortunately, parts of this laudable effort
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AUGUST 27, 2010 Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future Few Californians in the private sector have $1 million in savings, but that’s effectively the retirement account they guarantee to many government employees. By ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Recently some critics have accused me of bullying state employees. Headlines in California papers this month have been screaming “Gov
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