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September 6, 2010 - 06 Sep 2010
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In the Jerusalem Post, Daniel Gordis has a stellar article on what lies behind the Ground Zero mosque controversy.
…For Israelis do have something to teach Americans… It goes something like this: It’s fine to say that “America is not at war with Islam,” to point out that most [...]
September 5, 2010 - 05 Sep 2010
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Jeff Jacoby explains why Cash for Clunkers was a monumentally stupid piece of legislation.
…Why are used-car prices rocketing? Part of the answer is that demand is up: With unemployment high and the economy uncertain, some car buyers who might otherwise be looking for a new truck or SUV [...]
September 2, 2010 - 02 Sep 2010
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David Goldman compares the lost decade of Japan with the economic mess here in our country.
…During Japan’s “lost decade” of the 1990s, everyone was working, everyone kept their homes, everyone maintained their lifestyle (minus some shopping trips to Paris), and life carried on more or less the same. [...]
September 1, 2010 - 01 Sep 2010
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Toby Harnden comments on the Ground Zero mosque controversy and interviews a Muslim man who is against the building location. Ahmed Sharif is an amazing example, though, for the positive attitude he has of America despite having been the victim of an anti-Muslim attack.
It took a Manhattan taxi driver called Ahmed Sharif to speak [...]
August 31, 2010 - 31 Aug 2010
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Ed Morrissey kicks the day off with a rundown of Obama’s self-congratulatory address on the US forces reduction in Iraq.
Yesterday, I wrote that Barack Obama had an opportunity to at least share a little credit for the close of combat operations in Iraq with George W. Bush, who wrote the plan [...]
August 30, 2010 - 30 Aug 2010
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The first five quarters following the 1981-2 recession averaged growth rates of 6.2%. The first four quarters following 2008-9 recession have averaged 3.0% The fourth quarter out in the first period had growth of 8,1%. Friday we learned the fourth quarter this time had growth of 1.6% The WSJ editors have the story.
To no [...]
August 29, 2010 - 29 Aug 2010
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We start off with an excellent article on the Middle East peace process by George Will.
…The biggest threat to peace might be the peace process — or, more precisely, the illusion that there is one. The mirage becomes the reason for maintaining its imaginary “momentum” by extorting concessions [...]
August 26, 2010 - 26 Aug 2010
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In a radical departure from our normal selection of writers who are committed to free minds and free markets, we go to the main stream media to see how this administration is doing in their eyes. We go to Time, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, The Hill, NY Times, The [...]
August 25, 2010 - 25 Aug 2010
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Do your schools have dance studios and pizza ovens? We get a report on LA’s $578 million school. That’s right, LA has built a K-12 school for 4,200 students that cost $578,000,000. Maybe the president will want to send California some more bail-out cash.
LOS ANGELES – Next month’s [...]
August 24, 2010 - 24 Aug 2010
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We have had Ladies’ Days in the past; days when all our selections were penned by the stronger sex. Today, we have gone a step further with a Jennifer Rubin Day. She was on vacation for awhile, and has returned full force. The humor section does have one [...]
