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Archive of posts published in the tag: The Wall Street Journal

Crime and Culture, not Race, is the Issue

Jason Riley writes in the Wall Street Journal, Race, Politics and the Zimmerman Trial: Excerpts: Any candid debate on race and criminality in this country would have to start with the fact that blacks commit an astoundingly disproportionate number of

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The Buck Stops Way Over There

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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The Benghazi Reader

It is not surprising the the Benghazi controversy is reduced to mindless partisan gamesmanship.The sycophants on the left deflect every criticism not with real answers but with criticism of the right.There were 13 Benghazis under Bush we are told and Fox raised

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“A Statute of Limitations on Intellectual Denial”

From The Wall Street Journal editorial on 4/27/13, The Growth Deficit: We are now in year five of what has been one of the great experiments in Keynesian economic policy. We were told that if Congress would spend $830 billion

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Statist Medicine

Scott Gottlieb writes in The Wall Street Journal, The Doctor Won’t See You Now. He’s Clocked Out ObamaCare is pushing physicians into becoming hospital employees. The results aren’t encouraging. 3/15/13 Excerpts: ObamaCare’s main vehicle for ending the autonomous, private delivery of

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Does Failure Deserve a Second Chance?

David Malpass writes in The Wall Street Journal, Economic Signals Point to a 2013 Recession, 09/28/12 Excerpt: Data released this week by the Commerce Department waved bright red recession flags—orders for durable goods fell 13.2% in August and inflation-adjusted personal

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The L-Word

From Daniel Henninger at the Wall Street Journal, 10/11/12, Obama and the L-Word: Excerpts: The Obama campaign’s resurrection of “liar” as a political tool is odious because it has such a repellent pedigree. It dates to the sleazy world of

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Government Roads and Government Roadblocks

From the Wall Street Journal, ‘You Didn’t Build That’, 7/17/12: Speaking in Roanoke, Virginia, Mr. Obama delivered another paean to the virtues of higher taxes on the people he believes deserve to pay even more to the government. “There are

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The Doctor as a Commodity

Daniel Henninger writes in the 7/4/12 Wall Street Journal, Obamacare’s Lost Tribe: Doctors. Excerpt: A remarkable and important piece by Drs. Christine K. Cassel and Sachin H. Jain in the June 17 Journal of the American Medical Association directly asks:

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Readings 2012 07 01

Fix that Password-Now – Ellen Schultz wrote great tips on securing your online presence. Jonathan Haidt: He Knows Why We Fight – by Homan Jenkins Jr. in the WSJ, 6/29/12.  A search for “civil disagreement”, it is a review of

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Turning the Ferrari into a Prius

Holman Jenkins writes in the Wall Street Journal, ObamaCare- Upheld and Doomed, 6/29/12 Excerpt: The solution is a tweak. Republicans already are lip-committed to a national health-insurance charter that allows insurers to design their own policies and market them across

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Pitching the Wrong Policies

Edward Lazear writes in the Wall Street Journal, Whose Fault is Todays Economy?,  6/13/12 Excerpt: The logical conclusion is that what has happened since 2010 is a result of more recent policies, not ancient ones. In recent years, the strategy

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A Hijacked Stimulus

Harvey Golub writes in The Wall Street Journal, 5/22/12,  How the Recovery Went Wrong. Excerpts: But wouldn’t things be even worse without massive fiscal and monetary stimulus? It’s true that monetary policy by the Federal Reserve has resulted in extraordinarily

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