OPINION MARCH 31, 2010 By DANIELLE PLETKA Has the U.S. abandoned plans to target the Iranian regime’s access to banking and credit and to isolate Iranian air and shipping transport? While recent reports to that effect have been strenuously denied by the administration, it has become clear that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s promise of […]
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OPINION MARCH 30, 2010 By CHARLES R. SCHWAB Today’s historically low interest rates may be feeding banks’ profitability, but they are financially starving our seniors. In February 2006, when Ben Bernanke was first sworn in as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the federal-funds target rate stood at 4.5%. That same year, the average yield on
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OPINION MARCH 30, 2010 By ALAN REYNOLDS President Barack Obama’s new health-care legislation aims to raise $210 billion over 10 years to pay for the extensive new entitlements. How? By slapping a 3.8% “Medicare tax” on interest and rental income, dividends and capital gains of couples earning more than $250,000, or singles with more than
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OPINION MARCH 31, 2010 The big government liberalism that Mr. Obama uses to make himself history-making also alienates him in the center-right America of today. By SHELBY STEELE It has to be acknowledged that, in his battle for health-care reform, President Obama has shown real presidential mettle. He did what it took to win his
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OPINION MARCH 29, 2010 By RONEN BERGMAN This May, Israel will celebrate its 62nd Independence Day. And barring the unexpected, the country will have good reason to celebrate. This will have been the safest year in a decade and a half for Israeli civilians—the year with the fewest fatalities in acts of war or terror.
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OPINION MARCH 29, 2010 She understands that the U.S. has been a force for good in the world—which is more than can be said of our president. By NORMAN PODHORETZ Nothing annoys certain of my fellow conservative intellectuals more than when I remind them, as on occasion I mischievously do, that the derogatory things they
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MARCH 27, 2010 ‘Basically an Optimist’—Still Gary Becker By PETER ROBINSON Stanford, Calif. ‘No, no. Not at all.” So says Gary Becker when asked if the financial collapse, the worst recession in a quarter of a century, and the rise of an administration intent on expanding the federal government have prompted him to reconsider his
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By KARL ROVE Democrats are celebrating victory. The public outcry against what they’ve done doesn’t seem to bother them. They take it as validation that they are succeeding at transforming America. But we’ve seen this movie before and it won’t end happily for Democrats. Their morale rose when the stimulus passed in February 2009. The
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MARCH 23, 2010 By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The gravest threat faced by the world today is a nuclear-armed Iran. Of all the nations capable of producing nuclear weapons, Iran is the only one that might use them to attack an enemy. There are several ways in which Iran could use nuclear weapons. The first is
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The president says electronic systems will reduce costs and improve quality, but they could undermine good care if people are afraid to confide in their doctors. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580904575132111888664060.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion Mar 24, 2010 By DEBORAH C. PEEL I learned about the lack of health privacy when I hung out my shingle as a psychiatrist. Patients asked if I
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