from The Real #GenocideinGaza in Slate by Ron Rosenbaum Excerpts: For a quarter century now this genocidal Hamas pledge has been there for the world to see. Genocide, not some metaphor, not some Godwin’s Law–breaking comparison, but genocide—a mission statement.
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Kevin Williamson writes What to Do About Wages in The National Review. Excerpts: There are basically three ways to raise incomes. The first is through capital investment that raises the value of labor. But capital investment also replaces labor in many instances,
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From Daniel Greenfield at The Sultan Knish, Where the Black Flags Fly Excerpts: About the only reliable source of wealth comes out of the ground and the countries that have it are usually too lazy to get it themselves. That’s
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from The Slow Decline of American Entrepreneurship by Tim Kane Start-up companies are the reason America’s economy is more innovative, prosperous and dynamic than the economies of other industrialized countries around the world. New companies create roughly 3 million jobs every
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\ from the WSJ, The Myth of ObamaCare’s Affordability by Casey Mulligan excerpt: The law has effects that extend well beyond the employment rate and the average length of the workweek. People, businesses and entire sectors will jockey to reduce
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from The Wall Street Journal Notable and Quotable: Defense analyst Nadia Schadlow writing at warontherocks.com, Aug. 18: President Obama’s commitment to reducing America’s reliance on the military instrument of power is well-known. It has been a constant theme of his
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In today’s WSJ Harry Reid Rewrites the First Amendment by Theodore Olson Excerpt: The critics also ignore that Citizens United and McCutcheon make it easier for the unions on which the Democrats rely to spend money on elections. Unions outspent businesses by more than
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Excerpt from America’s Dangerous Aversion to Conflict by Robert Kagan in The Wall Street Journal So the liberal powers tried to reason with them, to understand and even accept their grievances and seek to assuage them, even if this meant
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Book Review: ‘World Order’ by Henry Kissinger from The Wall Street Journal by James Traub “The tragedy of Wilsonianism,” Mr. Kissinger writes, “is that it bequeathed to the twentieth century’s decisive power an elevated foreign policy doctrine unmoored from a
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“The federal budget suggests that just over 20 percent of what the national government does involves the provision of public goods, and the rest involves taking from A and giving to B because politicians want it that way. This isn’t
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Daniel Greenfield writes The Imaginary Non-Interventionist in his excellent blog, The Sultan Knish The non-interventionist, like the pacifist, is a mythical woodland creature who appears in the fables of many cultures. He isn’t however to be found in the vicinity of
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from Iraq War Regrets in The National Review, a compendium of analysis. Victor Davis Hanson Despite the postwar errors of occupation (among them most prominently the dismissal of the Iraqi army and the failure to use sufficient force to ensure order) that
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Mark Perry suggests an enlightening way to view the minimum wage in his blog Carpe Diem: Instead of $10.10 per hour, think of the proposed minimum wage as a $5,700 annual tax per full-time unskilled worker Suppose that instead of
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from Scott Grannis in his blog The Calafia Beach Pundit, What happened to all the profits? excerpts: Here’s the failure in a nutshell: The government can’t stimulate the economy by borrowing from Peter and sending a check to Paul, because
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From Saudi foreign minister: we must denounce our hatred toward Israel and begin normalize ties with Jewish nation Speaking on the sidelines of the world assembly of Islamic scholars in Jeddh, Saud bin Faisal Al Saud said that the Middle-East
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Bret Stephens writes The Meltdown in the September Commentary. Excerpts: Should any of this have come as a surprise? Probably not: With Obama, there was always more than a whiff of the overconfident dilettante, so sure of his powers that he could
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Safe, Benign, and Confident hands.
Bret Stephens writes The Meltdown in the September Commentary. Excerpts: Should any of this have come as a surprise? Probably not: With Obama, there was always more than a whiff of the overconfident dilettante, so sure of his powers that he could