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Free Markets and Big Business

Ezra Klein writes in The Washington Post, Derek Khanna wants you to be able to unlock your cellphone, 3/9/13 Excerpt: There’s a difference between being the party of free markets and the party of existing businesses. Excessively tough copyright law

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Using Language to Hide Reality

George Will writes in the Washington Post Facing up to what we did in interrogations, 1/11/13. Excerpts:  “In the end, everybody breaks, bro — it’s biology,” says the CIA man in the movie, tactically but inaccurately, to the detainee undergoing

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Health Care Sanity

Matt Miller writes in the  Washington Post,  The Missing Contraception Question, 2/22/12. Excerpts: It’s important not to let this contraception clash pass without understanding the true source of the problem. It’s not President Obama’s debauched liberal drive to shower teens with

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Humane Ideas Taken to Inhumane Extremes

Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post The Mark of a Tired Nation, August 11, 2011. Excerpt: Yet the ultimate cause of the economic malaise is not a political failure but a political choice. Since the New Deal — and

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100% of Nothing is Less than Nothing

George Will writes in The Washington Post– April 29, 2011 Working Up a Tax Storm excerpts Storm, 42, is founder and chief executive of FatWallet.com. The company, until recently one of about 9,000 Illinois “affiliates” of Amazon.com, directs online shoppers

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Illuminating the Data on Income and Wealth

The March 2006 Washington Post editorial that claimed real median wages had fallen for 25 years also concluded that “the rising tide helped only workers at the top [ 10 percent].” In 2003, a New York Times journalist likewise wrote,

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Absolving Fannie and Freddie

In a New York Times Article Paul Krugman took exception to another who laid blame for the financial crisis on Fannie Mae.  In Contending with Paul Krugman, part II, Charles Lane takes exception to Krugman. An excerpt: What is the

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A Tale of Two Market Crashes

From Thomas Sowell’s Intellectuals and Society “In short, many things that the Federal Reserve, Congress and the two Presidents did (during the market crash of 1929) were counterproductive.  Given these multiple failures of government policy, it is by no means

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Rebelyid Hump Day Recommendations

Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post “From John Edwards, lessons on celebrity and politics” “- the lesson to be learned from the John Edwards affair. “We have substituted the camera — fame, celebrity — for both achievement and the

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Climate Change Messiahs

George Will writes on Climate Gate in the Washington Post; The Climate -change travesty Excerpt: Barack Obama, understanding the histrionics required in climate-change debates, promises that U.S. emissions in 2050 will be 83 percent below 2005 levels. If so, 2050

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