AUGUST 9, 2010 Will Iraq Fall Victim to the Oil Curse? The Baghdad government runs a top-down command economy and only pays lip service to private jobs and economic diversification. By JUDITH MILLER Baghdad Since America toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraq has had three free-wheeling, relatively fraud-free national elections. Its military has been reconstituted, […]
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AUGUST 9, 2010 Canada, Land of Smaller Government Its corporate income tax rate is 18% and falling. America’s is 35%. By JASON CLEMENS When Americans look to Canada, they generally think of an ally, though one dominated by socialist economic policies. But the Canada of the 1970s and early 1980s—the era of left-wing Prime Minister
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AUGUST 6, 2010 A Hiroshima Apology? Japan’s continued focus on remembering the bomb has been an understandable sore point for its Asian neighbors, who suffered greatly at its hands. By WARREN KOZAK For the first time since the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan 65 years ago, today the U.S. ambassador to Japan
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AUGUST 7, 2010 Target Discovers Downside to Political Contributions By BRODY MULLINS And ANN ZIMMERMAN Target Corp. sought to take advantage of new campaign-finance rules, but ended up putting a bull’s eye on its back. The Minneapolis retailer recently donated $150,000 to a political group, Minnesota Forward, that backs pro-business candidates in statewide races, including
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AUGUST 5, 2010 Geithner’s Hollow ‘Speed’ Pledge to Business To reduce uncertainty, the Treasury secretary says Dodd-Frank regulations will be implemented quickly. That can’t and won’t happen. By GLENN HUBBARD AND HAL S. SCOTT Businesses must know the rules of the game before risking their capital. And so, in his speech at New York University’s
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AUGUST 5, 2010 Hezbollah and the Lebanon Dilemma Neither Israel nor Lebanon’s prime minister have any interest in another conflict, but Syria and Iran may force one. By RONEN BERGMAN On Tuesday afternoon, several hours before a highly anticipated televised speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Lebanese army snipers fired at an Israeli military detail
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AUGUST 4, 2010 Liberal Piety and the Memory of 9/11 The enlightened class can’t understand why the public is uneasy about the Ground Zero mosque. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Americans may have lacked for much in the course of their history, but never instruction in social values. The question today is whether Americans of any era
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AUGUST 4, 2010 ObamaCare and the Constitution—An Update A federal court denies the government’s motion to dismiss the challenge. By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Last November, a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if it was constitutional for Congress to require Americans to buy health insurance. Ms. Pelosi responded, “Are you serious?” On Monday, U.S. District Judge
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JULY 30, 2010 Goodbye ‘Sanctuary’ Cities Judge Bolton’s ruling on Arizona’s immigration law empowers states to move against scofflaw municipalities. By WILLIAM P. COOK Many will see Judge Susan Bolton’s decision to block parts of Arizona’s new immigration law solely as an affirmation of the federal government’s primacy over the states. But a close look
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JULY 30, 2010 How the CIA Got It Wrong on Iran’s Nukes In 2007, U.S. intelligence said Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program. Analyst policy bias and disinformation from Iranian double agents may explain the mistake. By EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN In a stunning departure from a decade of assessments, the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate
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