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Secessionism and Nationalism Are Growth Stocks

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Pat Buchanan calls it perfectly. As Pat explains, centralization and globalization are yesterday’s news. It is hoped that Senator Rand Paul gives Pat’s message a good read and uses Pat’s theme as a foreign policy template. Before we start sending troops back to Europe, as we did 65 years ago under Harry Truman, let us […]

A 29% Sales Tax?

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The government already pays more than half of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. As Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains here, thanks to Obamacare, government-run health care may already be a reality in far more ways than most of us realize. With little fanfare, Vermont is preparing to become the first state […]

Walgreen Should Relocate to Switzerland Says Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell

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Dan Mitchell offers a tax-saving strategy for Walgreen that can not happen fast enough for shareholders. Some shareholders at Walgreen Co., based in Deerfield, are pressing the company to move its headquarters to Europe, where it owns nearly half of Swiss pharmacy giant Alliance Boots. Should Walgreen move? Walgreen Co.’s purchase of Alliance Boots raises […]

Russia’s Military Will Collapse

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Here Peggy Noonan outlines the theories of Stratfor’s George Friedman. For a possible look into the future, the second book, “The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century” by George Friedman, founder of the private intelligence and forecasting firm Stratfor. The book was published four years ago, in January 2010. In one chapter […]

A Liberal War on Poor Children—Closing Charter Schools

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In California, teachers unions and their allies fight to close off educational options even though poor Latino kids attending a charter school in southeast L.A. vastly outperform children in neighborhood public schools. Allysia Finley explains at The Wall Street Journal. According to L.A. County Board of Education member Doug Boyd, the district arguably acted illegally […]

The Fed Can Not Print Jobs, Says Cato’s Alan Reynolds

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The Cato Institute’s Alan Reynolds explains the limits of Federal Reserve power here. We have all been watching a long mystery with no ending: What the Federal Reserve governors are trying to do, how they intend to do it and why they imagine their efforts will work. The key questions boil down to two: (1) […]

The Ukraine Easter Shootout

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Al Jazeera America reports here on a shootout in Eastern Ukraine that claims at least two lives. Gunfire erupted near a makeshift checkpoint set up by pro-Russian separatists near Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine early on Sunday, killing at least two people. The armed clash appeared to be the first since an international agreement was reached last […]

The Gipper Was No Neocon. No Wars On Reagan’s Watch

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Here Pat Buchanan recalls the legacy of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan believed in the measured response. He hated nuclear weapons, “those god-awful things,” he used to say, and seized on the idea of a missile defense, SDI. And while he was ready to trade down offensive missiles, when Gorbachev at Reykjavik demanded he throw the […]