APRIL 17, 2010 New Jersey’s ‘Failed Experiment’ The new governor is on a mission to make his state competitive again in attracting people and capital. By JAMES FREEMAN ‘I said all during the campaign last year that I was going to govern as if I was a one-termer,” explains New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on […]
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APRIL 12, 2010 A Man On a Mission By DANIEL FORD We’re familiar with photographs of triumphant GI’s in World War II, manning a hard-won position in the Solomon Islands or entering a newly liberated French town. From the Vietnam War such photos are few and far between—but they do exist. The dust-jacket of “Fighter
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APRIL 12, 2010 By BURTON FOLSOM JR. AND ANITA FOLSOM ‘He got us out of the Great Depression.” That’s probably the most frequent comment made about President Franklin Roosevelt, who died 65 years ago today. Every Democratic president from Truman to Obama has believed it, and each has used FDR’s New Deal as a model
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APRIL 7, 2010 By ALEX J. POLLOCK Government employees on average have higher pay and bigger benefits than the private-sector employees who support them with taxes. This has become a well known fact. When private firms run extended losses—spending more money than they take in—their employees must share in the necessary adjustments. But how about
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APRIL 7, 2010 By ZACHARY KARABELL So we’re almost there. The Dow is flirting with 11000 for the first time since October 2008—after falling to a low of 6500 in March last year. Now seems an appropriate time to ask whether the dramatic recovery of stocks is sustainable and to speculate about what comes next.
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APRIL 7, 2010 By PETER J. WALLISON AND DAVID SKEEL There are many reasons to oppose Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D., Conn.) financial regulation bill. The simplest and clearest is that the FDIC is completely unequipped by experience to handle the failure of a giant nonbank financial institution. The country should be grateful for the determination
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The Wall Street Journal APRIL 5, 2010 By IRWIN STELZER So we are to have a European-style value-added tax (VAT). That’s the emerging consensus in Washington as people come to recognize the reality of the deep financial hole into which the Obama administration has dug us. The Congressional Budget Office reckons we will be Greece
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Wall Street Journal APRIL 3, 2010 By JIM STERGIOS AND CHARLES CHIEPPO Boston The Obama administration announced the winners of its Race to the Top contest this week. Even though the competition was supposed to award money to states making strides in K-12 public education, one state that is a recognized leader in educational standards
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OPINION APRIL 1, 2010 By MICHIO KAKU Champagne bottles were popped Tuesday in Geneva where the largest science machine ever built finally began to smash subatomic particles together. After 16 years—and an accident that crippled the machine a year and a half ago—the Large Hadron Collider successfully smashed two beams of protons at the astounding
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OPINION APRIL 1, 2010 Where the Tea Partiers Should Go From Here By KARL ROVE Democrats are taking aim at the tea party movement. In a recent fund-raising email, the Democratic National Committee called those who attend tea party events “narrow minded . . . nut jobs” and “vile two-bit wing-nuts.” Democratic leaders routinely denigrate
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