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Archives for September 2014

Two Clueless Presidents Should Talk?

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George Bush got little right, certainly not in the military sense. Barack Obama has proven himself to be an even bigger bust, with a staff that needs a complete cleansing. It is hard to imagine productive common ground for discussion. Here, Bret Stephens writes that the two should talk. Bill Clinton made news earlier this […]

The Most Awesome Country in Existence

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The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell makes the same case for Switzerland as I have been making for years. And I agree with Dan where he writes he has no plans of giving up his country to the plundering thieves in Washington. But let’s shift back to the world of public policy. Every time I’m in […]

Bamboozled Again?

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$834 million, $2.14 billion or $73 billion—what is the true cost of building Obamacare? As the Cato Institute points out here, at the very least, President Obama owes taxpayers an accurate accounting of the costs of implementing the Affordable Care Act. In May, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell testified to […]

The Navy’s Most Advanced Destroyer is About to Sail

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Back in 2010 we outlined the Navy’s most advanced destroyer while it was in early development. Today the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer is readying to sail. Christopher Cavas of the Navy Times reports that the Zumwalt will launch in the Spring of 2015. BATH, MAINE — The ship is plainly visible from Front Street, across the Route […]

Boots on the Ground?

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How did this strategy play out in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan? Here, Seth Cropsey writes that military commanders doubt the U.S. can successfully defeat ISIS any other way. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Sept. 16 that if necessary he would recommend that the […]

Chestnuts from Our Archives: Paris Refined, Elegant

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Debbie and I are in Paris as I write this. The article Smoking Around Bebe is right on the money in every regard. Parisians do not talk to strangers. This can be profoundly disconcerting to a New Yorker who’s used to freely bitching about life’s daily indignities with whoever happens to be in line with them […]

A Promising Step Toward Round-the-Clock Solar Power

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A simple, cheap device turns sunlight into hydrogen fuel. If solar power is to become a primary source of electricity around the world, we’ll need cheap ways to store energy from the sun when it isn’t shining. A paper published in the journal Science this week reports a major step toward such a system. Researchers […]

Nicolas Sarkozy launches political comeback

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Last week, Sarkozy announced via his Facebook page that he would seek the leadership of the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, according to the reports. The development came after the suspension on Wednesday of a case against Sarkozy about an alleged attempt to influence judges who were looking into his affairs. Sarkozy […]

Intervention and Big Government Losers

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The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell asks, can you name a nation with interventionism and big government that is outperforming a similar nation with free markets and small government? 1. Can you name a nation that became rich with statist policies? Before you say Sweden, or even France, note that I asked you to name a […]