APRIL 22, 2010 Environmentalism as Religion By PAUL H. RUBIN Many observers have made the point that environmentalism is eerily close to a religious belief system, since it includes creation stories and ideas of original sin. But there is another sense in which environmentalism is becoming more and more like a religion: It provides its […]
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Israel Has A Decision To Make
APRIL 21, 2010 Israel Weighs Merits of Solo Attack on Iran Officials, Seeing Impending Policy Split With U.S., Debate Prospect of a Military Strike Without Washington’s Consent By CHARLES LEVINSON JERUSALEM—The Israeli security establishment is divided over whether it needs Washington’s blessing if Israel decides to attack Iran, Israeli officials say, as the U.S. campaign
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‘Peace Is Our Profession’
APRIL 15, 2010 By WARREN KOZAK In 1964, Hollywood mirrored the world’s fears with two major motion pictures focused on nuclear nightmare scenarios—”Fail-Safe” and “Dr. Strangelove.” That same year saw the famous Daisy TV commercial linking the Republican presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater, to reckless nuclear behavior. This was during the Cold War, when the United
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George W. Bush’s 2010 Tax Miracle
APRIL 15, 2010 By DONALD L. LUSKIN With the federal budget deficit estimated at $1.342 trillion for next year, it’s going to take a miracle to put America’s fiscal house in order. Happily, a tax revenue miracle may be just around the corner. At a minimum, it will reduce next year’s deficit by 15%. It
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A Message From ‘Henry’
Wall Street Journal April 15, 2010 By MIKE DONAHUE I’m in the 32% federal and 10% state income tax brackets. I pay a 1.2% property tax on very expensive California real estate. I am subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax. I am self-employed and subject to a 15% payroll tax on the first $100,000 in
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ObamaCare
APRIL 9, 2010 Medical Privacy and ObamaCare By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Eighteen states are challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health law. Their challenge focuses on whether the federal government can require everyone to buy coverage. They gloss over an issue more consequential to our health and longevity: Can the federal government dictate how doctors treat
Afghanistan and the Decline of American Power
April 9, 2010 By FOUAD AJAMI President Obama’s “war of necessity” in Afghanistan increasingly has to it the mark of a military campaign disconnected from a bigger political strategy. Yes, it is true, he “inherited” this war. But in his fashion he embraced it and held it up as a rebuke to the Iraq war.
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Are We Closely Watching Chavez?
Wall Street Journal APRIL 9, 2010 Time to Confront the Tehran-Caracas Axis By ROGER NORIEGA As Washington policy makers scramble to craft effective sanctions against Iran, they seem to have completely ignored Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blossoming relationship with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez. This strategic alliance provides the Iranian regime with a clandestine source of uranium, helps it
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Afghanistan – The Man Who Might Have Been ‘King’
APRIL 10, 2010 By ANN MARLOWE Kabul ‘Americans should know that in the people of Afghanistan, you have a partner. Not all of our people will be as disgraceful as some of your beneficiaries.” Abdullah Abdullah is referring to an April 2 speech by President Hamid Karzai that shook up even the normally complacent Obama
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Backup Plans for Iran
APRIL 19, 2010 Gates Sought New Ways to Curb Tehran’s Nuclear Program By PETER SPIEGEL As the White House’s campaign to impose international sanctions against Iran extends months beyond deadlines, some U.S. officials are pushing for other options to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. In one of the clearest signs of the growing concern among top
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