JUNE 26, 2010 To Chavez, With Love Oliver Stone’s mash note to the dictators of Latin America. By RON RADOSH The red carpet was rolled out this Wednesday night for director Oliver Stone at the premiere of his new documentary, “South of the Border,” at the Silverdocs Film Festival in Silver Spring, Md. Mr. Stone […]
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JUNE 28, 2010 The Disgraced Governors Talk-Show Wars Eliot Spitzer’s program is only the beginning. By JOE QUEENAN CNN’s bizarre pairing of disgraced Empire State Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker is a watershed moment in the history of television. A slap in the face of serious, professional, respected journalists like Keith
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JUNE 28, 2010 Why Friedrich Hayek Is Making a Comeback With the failure of Keynesian stimulus, the late Austrian economist’s ideas on state power and crony capitalism are getting a new hearing. By RUSS ROBERTS He was born in the 19th century, wrote his most influential book more than 65 years ago, and he’s not
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JUNE 28, 2010 Petraeus and Obama’s Uncertain Trumpet There is a mismatch between the general’s Afghan mission and the president’s summons to his countrymen. By FOUAD AJAMI The chroniclers tell us that Lyndon Johnson never took to the Vietnam War. He prosecuted it, it became his war, but it was, in LBJ’s language, a “bitch
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JUNE 28, 2010 Protests Rock Toronto Over Weekend Despite Stepped-Up Security Effort, Police Struggle to Halt Violence Near G-20 Summit, Arresting Nearly 600 By PHRED DVORAK And MONICA GUTSCHI TORONTO—The site of the weekend’s Group of 20 leaders’ meeting was rocked by some of the most violent protests to hit a global gathering in recent
JUNE 23, 2010 Warfare Through ‘a Soda Straw’ Wikileaks videos do not reveal the myriad cases in which our forces refrain from attacking targets because civilians are in harm’s way. By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD Reports are circulating that Wikileaks.org is poised to publish a classified U.S. military video of a May 2009 U.S. air strike on
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JUNE 22, 2010 Haley Keeps Taking the Southern Test By PETER WALLSTEN and VALERIE BAUERLEIN She was born in small-town South Carolina, attended South Carolina schools and won election three times to the state legislature. But in her surging campaign for governor, Nikki Haley has been tested far more than other candidates on her cultural
JUNE 22, 2010 Iran’s Democratic Manifesto The opposition leader has issued a clear call for democracy, the separation of mosque and state, and a gentler foreign policy. By ABBAS MILANI EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Iran’s Green movement, Mr. Mousavi says, respects international standards of human rights and believes in full equality before the law, “irrespective
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JUNE 22, 2010 A Tale of Two Disasters Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill. By PAUL H. RUBIN In many respects, the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Katrina are mirror images of each other. The harm from Katrina was
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JUNE 21, 2010 Israel and the Surrender of the West One of the world’s oldest stories is playing out before our eyes: The Jews are being scapegoated again. By SHELBY STEELE The most interesting voice in all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as “world opinion.” At
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