MAY 6, 2010 The German Connection By MATTHEW KAMINSKI As we know too well by now, sometime in the past century the religion of Muhammad was weaponized—that is, there was a coupling of terrorism and Islam among its militant believers. This development didn’t take place in isolation, however. Islamism, as we now call a radical […]
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MAY 5, 2010 Britain’s Roller-Coaster Election By RUPERT DARWALL London Tomorrow’s British election is on course to be only the third time in 31 years that the country has changed its government. Margaret Thatcher swept the Conservatives into power in 1979 and Tony Blair ushered in a period of Labour Party control in 1997. Yet
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MAY 5, 2010 Why Pakistan Produces Jihadists By SADANAND DHUME Monday night’s arrest of Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistani-American accused of planting a car bomb in Times Square on Saturday, will undoubtedly stoke the usual debate about how best to keep America safe in the age of Islamic terrorism. But this should not deflect us
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MAY 5, 2010 Los Angeles on the Brink of Bankruptcy By RICHARD RIORDAN AND ALEXANDER RUBALCAVA Los Angeles is facing a terminal fiscal crisis: Between now and 2014 the city will likely declare bankruptcy. Yet Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council have been either unable or unwilling to face this fact. According to the
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Wall Street Journal MAY 4, 2010 What About Fan and Fred Reform? By ROBERT G. WILMERS Congress may be making progress crafting new regulations for the financial-services industry, but it has yet to begin reforming two institutions that played a key role in the 2008 credit crisis—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We cannot reform these
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MAY 4, 2010 Democrats at Ramming Speed By FRED BARNES President Reagan had a sign on his desk that said, “It’s amazing how much you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.” If President Obama had a sign, it would say, “It’s amazing how much you can accomplish if you don’t care
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Wall Street Journal MAY 3, 2010 Get Ready For a Nuclear Iran By JOHN BOLTON Negotiations grind on toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Sanctions advocates acknowledge that the Security Council’s ultimate
MAY 3, 2010 When Problems Persist By VINCENT J. CANNATO In March 1965, a young political appointee in the Labor Department named Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a report warning of high levels of out-of-wedlock births in the black community. “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” as the report was officially titled, noted that
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MAY 3, 2010 Chávez Decaffeinates Venezuela By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY The late Milton Friedman once quipped that “if you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” Friedman was using hyperbole to make a point about central planning. Or so I thought until Hugo
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APRIL 29, 2010 States Face Their First ObamaCare Test By GRACE-MARIE TURNER States have until tomorrow to let Washington know if they plan to participate in one of the first government programs to be launched under ObamaCare—new high-risk pools for the uninsured. The question states should be asking is: Why would we participate? The high-risk
