Peggy Noonan writes in The Wall Street Journal, The IRS Can’t Plead Incompetence, 6/6/13 Excerpts: If the agency didn’t know what it was doing, it wouldn’t have done it so well. In March 2012, the organization, which argues the case
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Europe and Japan have parliamentary democracies where parties represent their share of the vote. In the United States, it’s winner takes all. This has distilled U.S. politics to a two party system, and that makes it easier for a large
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From Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe, Is this any way to help the poor? Excerpts: At the end of 2012, a record47.8 million people were on food stamps. Of the 115 million households in the United States, 23 million —
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From The Guardian, Why are liberals so rude to the right?, by Leften Wright (gotta be a pen name) Excerpts: Wouldn’t it be better for America if liberals really were liberal, and listened to other points of view? President Nixon
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Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: Our civilization is sophisticated enough to deconstruct everything but incapable of constructing anything. We’re still capable of a certain amount of technological innovation in the consumer realm, but outside
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From Investor’s Business Daily, Many Ideas From The 1960s Now Look Threadbare And Foolish by Victor Davis Hanson. Excerpts: Affirmative action and enforced “diversity” were originally designed to give a boost to those who were victims of historical bias from
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