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Iran has promised a punch that will stun world powers this week to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Could that punch be a nuclear test to announce Iran’s joining the world nuclear club?
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New Ledger Features
Is America Governable?by Pejman Yousefzadeh
Is America governable? Why, of course it is, Paul Krugman’s histrionics notwithstanding. But to the extent that President Obama has had problems governing it, he need only look into the mirror to find a culprit for his Administration’s political failings, as Jay Cost points out.
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After Obamacare: What Should Conservatives Do?by Dan McLaughlin
After Obamacare, we can stop pretending that a handful of experts in Washington know better than the rest of the country. After Obamacare, we can return to debating solutions more in line with traditional American values and American ways of solving problems by the trials and errors of a free people. After Obamacare, the goals will be more modest, but more realistic. After Obamacare, health care reform will still be possible – but only if President Obama abandons his utopian schemes and looks at the kind of solutions that Americans have long regarded as common ground.
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It’s Not About Him: America’s Decline is About a Lot More Than Obamaby Francis Cianfrocca
Time for a Big Picture episode of the podcast: “We have never had, in the history of the world, periods of sustained economic prosperity and growth accompanied by a sustained decline in population. Today, every developed nation in the world is witnessing this decline.”
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Arms and Taiwan: The US Must Respond to China’s Nuclear North Koreaby Joshua Stanton
If we’re really serious about putting pressure on China, boosting Taiwan’s security, and giving Taiwan a deterrent that doesn’t depend on the U.S. Navy, then we should quietly assist Taiwan to acquire the technology to develop its own ballistic missiles, and do nothing to discourage its acquisition of nuclear weapons. Just like China did for North Korea.
Full Story »The Great Walkaway, The Big Mulligan, and The Do NothingFrancis Cianfrocca
As you see, the Great Walkaway, the Big Mulligan, and the Do Nothing ideas all lead more or less to the same place. As a society, we have sustained a huge decline in asset values as the housing bubble popped. And we’re going to spread out the impact of the decline and suffer it in a socialized way. Several more years of economic weakness are ahead, no matter what happens here.
More »Autism and the Big Vaccine LieRoger Bate
More important and more dangerous than Dr. Wakefield’s strife is that he convinced many parents to stop vaccinating their children: the result is at least a ten-fold increase in measles in UK alone. And today, steadily weakening vaccination coverage in Britain and four other countries is undermining efforts to eradicate measles across Europe and increasing the threat to the United States.
More »If Republicans Want to Lead, They Must Stand Firm On Deficit-Based StimulusFrancis Cianfrocca
Public deficit spending isn’t going to stimulate private credit formation and consumption-growth until consumers get their balance sheets healed. People who want you to think that a much bigger stimulus last year would have magically fixed the economy are deeply deluded. Or deeply mendacious.
More »Yeah, Bernanke’s BackFrancis Cianfrocca
Bernanke’s back, the State of the Union is one long chiding of the country, and the markets continue their turmoil on the latest edition of Coffee and Markets, your weekly podcast on politics and the economy with Francis Cianfrocca.
More »A People’s History of Howard ZinnBenjamin Kerstein
It is, of course, the job of the historian to examine the acts of the deceased; and some consider it an equal part of their profession to pass judgement upon them. In the case of Howard Zinn, however, he passed judgment with such slothful ease, and such obvious sadistic pleasure in issuing his condemnations, that one cannot muster up much sympathy at the prospect of the man’s memory dying by his own sword.
More »The Speech Obama Didn’t GiveBen Domenech
This was, in many ways, Obama’s malaise speech — chiding a displeased nation for setting their expectations too high, and telling us we would need to do a lot of this “change” ourselves; blasting a Supreme Court for their recent decisions on campaign restrictions Obama glided past in his own multi-million dollar campaign for the White House; wagging his finger at Republicans who, now that they have a paper-thin one vote margin to block some of the president’s plans, are apparently expected to govern as equals.
More »A State of the Union in ContradictionPejman Yousefzadeh
A President calling for bipartisanship and an end to the permanent campaign gave a speech that was–in tone and in substance–a campaign speech. A President calling for unity gave a speech that practically cried out “all the bad stuff that happened was George W. Bush’s fault!”. A President calling for a renewal of national purpose spent large amounts of time playing class warfare games, and seeking to turn Americans against Wall Street. That latter activity is an easy one to engage in. But just because something is easy, does not make it right.
More »State of the Union: The Path AheadFrancis Cianfrocca
Does Barack Obama really mean what he says? Is he willing to give us a real solution to our structural deficit problem and then leave office after four years? Well, he probably does. Can he execute? That’s always been the problem with Barack Obama. He’s a heartbreaker. His actions have never lived up to his words.
More »Obama’s Wrongheaded Student Loan PlanFrancis Cianfrocca
Overall, this proposal makes extensive consumption of higher education a no-brain decision. I agree that the middle class is harmed by the skyrocketing cost of higher education. But to repeat the parallel with healthcare, people will automatically use too much of anything they don’t have to pay for. The right way to solve the problem of rampant education cost-inflation is not to shift the costs to taxpayers, but to make colleges and universities more efficient.
More »Man Up, Mr. ObamaFrancis Cianfrocca
As the State of the Union approaches, it’s time to ask: Mr. Obama, what are you waiting for? If you’re serious about attacking the deficit problem, do something about it yourself. Appoint an executive commission, without a commitment for a Congressional vote. You can do that tonight while you’re checking to see what Keith Olbermann has to say about you.
More »More Feature Stories
- Jack Bauer and the Essence of TV Storytelling
- End This Madness: Confirm Chairman Bernanke
- Tim Geithner’s Big Bank Re-Regulation
- Paul Krugman and the Future of the Marketplace
- Seven Lessons of the Brown Bombshell
- Why Did Martha Coakley Lose? And Why Did Scott Brown Win?
- The Battle in Massachusetts for 41
- Oliver Stone’s Liberal Nazism
- The New York Times Embraces Free-Market Orthodoxy
- Earning the Nobel: Obama and North Korea’s Human Rights
- Coffee and Markets: What Obama’s Big New Bank Fee Means for You
- Mark McGwire and the Sportswriters
- China: The World’s Most Keynesian State
- America and the Danger of Positive Thinking
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Fed Outlines Future Tightening Plans
What does the Fed plan to do if a comeback begins? “The centerpiece will be a new tool Congress gave the central bank in October 2008: an interest rate the Fed pays banks on money they leave on reserve at the central bank. Known as “interest on excess reserves,” this rate is now 0.25%.”
Obama’s Health Care Summit: Just for Show?
Showmanship is not leadership: “the administration has not released any details about the format. ‘I don’t agree this is going to be political theater,’ said spokesman Reid Cherlin. ‘This is going to be a substantive discussion about how best to achieve the goals the president laid out.’”
The Man Who Looked Into Facebook’s Soul: Data Dump Incoming
“This Wednesday, Warden will make Friend, Fan page and name data from hundreds of millions of Facebook users available to the academic research community. It’s a move that Facebook has to have seen coming, a move that many in the data-centric community have been calling on the company itself to do for years.”
Shelby Relents, Releasing Holds on Obama Nominees
GOP Richard Senator Shelby has been holding hostage 70 of Obama’s pending nominees infuriating Harry Reid, the President, and unfriendly neighborhood lefty activists everywhere. Late yesterday though, Shelby relented and lifted his holds. Why?
A Cadre of Conservatives Conversing
In you must listen podcast of the day, check out the one and only Andrew Breitbart with Rob Long, Mark Steyn and John C. Yoo talking about the Obama administration’s decision to give Miranda rights to Al Queda, a MSM in apoplectic fits and more.
Meghan McCain Gets Feisty with Tea Party Movement
The always amusing Meghan McCain leapt to the defense of her father this week chastising Tom Tancredo for reveling in her father’s 2008 loss, and calling into question the entire Tea Party movement saying that it’s one big “turn off”. Well Meghan, so are you.
Why Can’t Birtherism Just Die Already
Much has been written and much has been said about suspicions of Obama’s birth. With the President fully entrenched in office for more than a year now, and no definitive proof that his birth certificate is fake, you think the issue would be dead. Don’t tell that to WorldNetDaily.
Is Apple Becoming Too Controlling?
Steve Jobs is notorious keeping much of Apple’s operations in house and under his constant watch and command. Recent successes haven’t seemed to be stifled by this approach, but are they finally taking it too far with new plans to restrict iPhone developers? One tech CEO says yes.
Gov. Patterson Following in His Predecessors Footsteps?
The New York Times is preparing an expose on NY Governor David Patterson that some thought would end his career and force him to resign. Now word has leaked that although it’s not ‘XXX’ it will still detail extramarital affairs and possibly some legally messy missteps. Do these guys ever learn?





