MAY 21, 2010 By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN The American public feels it is drowning in red ink. It is dismayed and even outraged at the burgeoning national deficits, unbalanced state and local budgets, and accounting that often masks the extent of indebtedness. There is a mounting sense that taxpayers are being taken for an expensive ride […]
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MAY 21, 2010 Goodbye, Employer-Sponsored Insurance By JOHN C. GOODMAN Millions of American workers could discover that they no longer have employer-provided health insurance as ObamaCare is phased in. That’s because employers are quickly discovering that it may be cheaper to pay fines to the government than to insure workers. AT&T, Caterpillar, John Deere and
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MAY 21, 2010 By JOHN FUND Elections this month have enhanced the political clout of two groups widely separated on the political spectrum. The tea party movement stands to play an outsize role in the fall elections now that outsider Rand Paul has swept Kentucky’s GOP Senate primary, while unions provided the muscle for Democrats
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MAY 20, 2010 Anti-Incumbent? Try Anti-Obama By FRED BARNES The hordes are not massing at the gates of Washington—not yet. They won’t arrive until after the midterm congressional election in November. Most are likely to be Republicans, a good number of them old Washington hands. Yesterday’s primary elections, including the impressive victories of Republican Rand
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MAY 20, 2010 A Bad Day for the Obama Agenda By KARL ROVE The temptation for politicians and political analysts is to draw broad, sweeping conclusions from election results. But most election outcomes defy being reduced to a single cause. Campaigns are a complicated mix of issues, personalities and impressions. Voters settle on a candidate
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MAY 18, 2010 No, You Can’t Keep Your Health Plan By SCOTT GOTTLIEB President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It’s clear that this promise cannot be kept. Insurers and physicians are already reshaping their businesses as a result of Mr. Obama’s plan.
MAY 18, 2010 Egypt’s Persecuted Christians By MOHEB ZAKI Cairo A few weeks ago in the coastal city of Marsa Matrouh, an enraged mob of some 3,000 angry Muslims gathered after Friday prayers. After the mosque’s imam exhorted them to cleanse the city of its infidel Christians, called Copts, they went on a rampage. The
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EUROPE NEWS MAY 17, 2010 Iranian Nuclear Deal Raises Fears By JAY SOLOMON, MARGARET COKER And JOHN LYONS Vahid Salemi/Associated PressFrom left to right, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet
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MAY 11, 2010 The World’s Dollar Drug By ZACHARY KARABELL Excerpt from the article: “The U.S. government uses its dollars-and the ability to print them and borrow them-poorly. Large amounts of debt fund consumption of goods and health care. While today’s needs are important, without sufficient investment those dollars will dissipate. You’d lend someone money
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MAY 17, 2010 The Small Business Credit Crunch By MEREDITH WHITNEY The next several weeks will be critically important for politicians, regulators and the larger U.S. economy. First, over the next week Capitol Hill will decide on potentially game-changing regulatory reform that could result in the unintended consequences of restricting credit and further damaging small
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