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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
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on September 8, 2010 at 04:27 am
Editor’s note: A lengthier version of this article first appeared in The American Spectator. It was 35 years ago this summer that the conservative movement found itself in a defining…...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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on August 25, 2010 at 05:06 am
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in USA Today. The recent poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life is generating much discussion over its provocative finding that…...
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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on August 19, 2010 at 04:17 am
Mark it down. At 2:15 p.m. on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, the U.S. Federal Reserve made a historic announcement. It signaled that the central bank was going to “preserve the…...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
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on August 18, 2010 at 03:34 am
New media have shaped our political culture. Some, like talk radio and all-news cable stations, are developments of older, established technologies. Others, like internet blogs, are based on comparatively new…...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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on August 17, 2010 at 05:11 am
The blogosphere is burning red, consumed with fury over President Obama’s announcement—made at the end of the news cycle, with talk-radio on weekend break—that he supports the construction of a…...
Monday, August 16, 2010
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on August 16, 2010 at 03:10 am
“The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University” By Kevin Roose | Grand Central Publishing [Paperback] (June 3, 2010) | 336 pp. | List Price: $13.99 An emergency…...
Friday, August 13, 2010
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on August 13, 2010 at 05:35 am
Climategate is thorough, knowledgeable, timely, and very well written. I have been reading about global warming for 20 years, yet this book included important information and details that were new…...
Thursday, August 05, 2010
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on August 5, 2010 at 09:17 am
The President's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has released its most recent quarterly report on the effects of President Obama's stimulus plan. Not surprisingly, the CEA praises this monumental Keynesian…...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
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on August 4, 2010 at 05:52 am
Editor’s Note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker. Historically, social justice has meant different things to different people, and equally so today, where the term…...
Thursday, July 29, 2010
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on July 29, 2010 at 03:59 am
Call it another Twilight Zone moment; another ignominious contribution to the “you-can’t-make-this-up” category. First, Mao Tse-tung was honored by oblivious New Yorkers, with their Empire State Building aglow in red…...
Friday, July 23, 2010
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on July 23, 2010 at 10:36 am
The grand lesson of the 20th century is that Big Government retards economic progress. The evidence of this lesson goes beyond the socialist countries and their dramatic economic failures. Several…...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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on July 21, 2010 at 04:01 am
In most, if not all, states, pupils must pass a course in American history to receive a high-school diploma. Unfortunately, when it comes to our country’s economic history, most students…...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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on July 14, 2010 at 09:12 am
I’ve never participated in a Tea Party rally. My natural habitat is a classroom or behind a keyboard. That said, I’ve had a lot of contact with Tea Party people,…...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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on July 13, 2010 at 06:40 am
Recently, Bill O’Reilly interviewed John Stossel about the dangerous situation along Arizona’s porous border with Mexico. Stossel is probably my favorite reporter. I admire the way he demolishes popular myths,…...
Friday, July 02, 2010
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on July 2, 2010 at 05:07 am
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the bewildering array of economic data, statistics, charts, and graphs floating around. Often, we economists can’t see the forest for the trees. It’s hard…...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
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on June 29, 2010 at 03:44 am
I was in Washington last week, meaning I was able to observe, on-site and up close, the reaction to President Obama’s remarkable switch in leadership in Afghanistan from the bizarre…...
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on June 29, 2010 at 03:36 am
If you read the financial press or listen to what politicians say, you have probably heard many times how important it is for the Chinese renminbi (yuan) to strengthen against…...
Friday, June 18, 2010
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on June 18, 2010 at 03:07 am
Calling for a balanced budget amendment has been a staple campaign issue for conservative Republicans for years. Undeniably, our nation is beset by fearful fiscal woes. However, a balanced budget…...
Monday, June 14, 2010
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on June 14, 2010 at 07:47 am
This week veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas announced her sudden “retirement.” The source was an insight shared by Thomas outside the White House during a Jewish-American Heritage Month celebration.…...
Friday, June 11, 2010
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on June 11, 2010 at 05:02 am
“The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education.” By Diane Ravitch | Basic Books (March 2, 2010) | 283 pp. |…...
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
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on June 2, 2010 at 04:05 am
As a psychology professor I teach students who plan to be practitioners of social science. They have been moved with compassion by the problems so many people face, such as…...
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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on May 27, 2010 at 05:48 am
The explosion that sank British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling vessel/platform in the Gulf of Mexico in April was an unmitigated disaster. The accident killed 11 workers and has caused massive…...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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on May 26, 2010 at 02:11 am
I first met Levi almost 20 years ago. He was about 12. We had just purchased our land from his parents, Jake and Nancy. Being old-order Amish, Jake and Nancy…...
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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on May 22, 2010 at 05:45 am
Good afternoon, thank you for joining us here today for our annual celebration of, “Wow, we survived another year!” In all seriousness, congratulations to all of you for another excellent…...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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on May 18, 2010 at 10:00 pm
The sovereign debt crisis—centered on Greece for the moment, but bound to spread to other heavily indebted national governments—has taken an ominous turn. The European Central Bank (ECB), the…...
Monday, May 17, 2010
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on May 17, 2010 at 06:39 am
Wetlands Quality Assurance Project Plan Guidance Where’s Anita Dunn when you need her? Recall Anita Dunn, who resigned as President Obama’s communications director not long after Glenn Beck had the…...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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on May 12, 2010 at 09:09 am
Economic error knows no partisan bounds. Republican Herbert Hoover and Democrat Franklin Roosevelt both adopted foolish, harmful policies during the Great Depression. Republican George W. Bush’s stimulus plan made no…...
Monday, May 10, 2010
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on May 10, 2010 at 05:23 am
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker. Progressivism is all-the-rage nowadays, with liberals having jettisoned the “liberal” label for the less maligned tag of…...
Friday, May 07, 2010
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on May 7, 2010 at 04:06 am
On August 25, 1914, in a spate of disorder, shots rang out from the Belgian town of Louvain, instigating its German occupiers to launch a frenzy of looting and destruction. Crazed…...
Thursday, May 06, 2010
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on May 6, 2010 at 04:49 am
FGF: "Manipulated History of the Civil Rights Movement": T <!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --> ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- In a recent syndicated…...
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