JUNE 18, 2010 How ‘Protectionist’ Became An Insult As Congress dawdles on trade agreements, the harsh results of the Smoot-Hawley tariff should not be forgotten. By DOUGLAS A. IRWIN Eighty years ago, on June 17, 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff, significantly raising the duties on imported goods. Hoover and his congressional […]
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JUNE 18, 2010 U.S. Debt and the Greece Analogy Don’t be fooled by today’s low interest rates. The government could very quickly discover the limits of its borrowing capacity. By ALAN GREENSPAN An urgency to rein in budget deficits seems to be gaining some traction among American lawmakers. If so, it is none too soon.
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JUNE 17, 2010 The Bad News About ObamaCare Keeps Piling Up It’s now obvious that many millions will lose the coverage they have. By KARL ROVE In his brilliant exposition of why sweeping policy changes often have unintended consequences, the late sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote that leaders get things wrong when their “paramount concern
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This article has to be read to be believed as the author definitely has a liberal bias and champions Obama’s foreign policy. The author is James P. Rubin who was an assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration. He is now an adjunct professor at Columbia university’s School of International and Public Affairs. JUNE
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JUNE 7, 2010 With Friends Like the United States . . . President Obama has emboldened America’s adversaries and unnerved its allies. By ELIOT A. COHEN What do the following have in common: the piling on Israel after the botched interception of the Hamas relief flotilla, the Chinese military telling the U.S. secretary of defense
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JUNE 7, 2010 Pelosi’s Loss Could Be Obama’s Gain A pivot to the center (and re-election) would be easier without the House speaker. By FRED BARNES In Washington these days, President Obama is rumored to be hoping Republicans capture the House of Representatives in the midterm election in November. There’s no evidence for this speculation,
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JUNE 6, 2010 Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse Today’s corporate profits reflect an income shift into 2010. These profits will tumble next year, preceded most likely by the stock market. By ARTHUR LAFFER People can change the volume, the location and the composition of their income, and they can do so in response
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JUNE 12, 2010 The shrinking number of loyalists around the Ayatollah Khamenei are shaken by their failure to break the will of the opposition. By MICHAEL LEDEEN Today is the first anniversary of the fraudulent election that kept President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power, igniting huge demonstrations all over Iran. At the time, very few outside
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JUNE 9, 2010 The distance between the president and the people is beginning to be revealed. By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ The deepening notes of disenchantment with Barack Obama now issuing from commentators across the political spectrum were predictable. So, too, were the charges from some of the president’s earliest enthusiasts about his failure to reflect a
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U.S. NEWS JUNE 11, 2010 U.S. Nears Racial Milestone Whites Are on Verge of Becoming a Minority Among Newborns in Long-Expected Shift By CONOR DOUGHERTY Whites are on the verge of becoming a minority among newborn children in the U.S., marking a demographic shift that is already reshaping the nation’s politics and economy. The Census
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