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- Opinion · Jul 7, 2015Greek Vote: Insanity or Insight?
power. In Greece’s defense, what little austerity that has been imposed beginning in 2010 has produced catastrophic effects. The nation’s unemployment rate tripled to more than 25% overall … against a compromise that would have allowed Europe to continue financing it,” writes Bloomberg News columnist Leonid Bershidsky. “Now it must be forced out of the euro area and perhaps
- Opinion · May 12, 2015How to Rescue Families Trapped in Violence, Despair and Joblessness
Census Bureau reported in 2012 that Washington spent $18,667 per pupil in 2010. The scholarship amounts are $8,500 for elementary school children and $12,000 for high school … your children, it’s good for our children.” Public education has traditionally been the great equalizer in America. The tragedy today is that the decline of public schools
- Opinion · Apr 21, 2015Killing ‘Too Big to Fail’ Could Unite America
Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP), and in December, Congress repealed a provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that barred banks from trading derivatives … investment banking many people insist contributed to the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression that followed. The modernization effected in 1999 allowed banks to use FDIC-insured depositories
- Alexander's Column · Apr 15, 2015American Liberty v. Taxation: A Short History
pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent.” News of the Tea Party protest in Boston galvanized the colonial movement opposing onerous British parliamentary acts that … Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was, ironically, an aristocrat. At the onset of the Great Depression, he instituted a plethora of policies that further challenged constitutional limits on our government
- Opinion · Mar 19, 2015How Pizza Became a Growth Stock
next Facebook, the share price of Domino’s has soared from $13 in 2010 to just over $100 today. It has been among the top performing stocks in the Fortune … more demand for labor than there is trained supply.” For job seekers “that is great news, right?” As for those who fret that only the rich are getting richer
- Opinion · Feb 12, 2015Who’ll Stop the Rain?
said that a one in a hundred year synoptic-scale event -- the Great Ohio Valley blizzard of 1978 -- was lake effect snow. At the time, Lake Erie was frozen … ever .” When I saw it, my thoughts were, this is old news. To guys like me, very old news . Perhaps the most newsworthy thing about it was that this
- Article · Feb 4, 2015Perry’s Claim to Fame Is Simple: Jobs
State of the Union , Barack Obama crowed about the jobs he created since 2010: “America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan and all advanced economies combined … Obama didn’t give credit where it’s due. Since the start of the Great Recession in 2007, the 1.169 million increase in jobs nationwide up to December
- Opinion · Jan 16, 2015Duke Reverses Muslim Call to Prayer Decision
itself of the Palestinians while taking as much of their land as possible.” In 2010, Duke’s ostensible commitment to pluralism led them to abruptly cancel an event about motherhood … said, “and political correctness won.” Not this time. And while the reversal is welcome news, one suspects optics, rather than principles, was the driving factor here. Duke was hammered
- Opinion · Jan 9, 2015Greek Radical Left on the March
grew up in Greece during the same period, told Bloomberg News. “He came of age during a period of great political and economic turmoil in Greece with lots of riots … Many European officials believe a Greek exit would be manageable, and in contrast to 2010-2011, we wouldn’t see the same cascading effect on countries like Spain or Ireland
- Opinion · Jan 3, 2015Thank Gridlock for Economic Turnaround
Great Depression. The Boston Globe, in an editorial reflecting much of the evidence-free praise the president has gotten, spins another myth. It points to policies passed in 2010 … past four years has been “do no harm.” On the strength of good economic news, Politico reports that Obama will use his State of the Union address to roll
- Opinion · Dec 26, 2014A Bush League Candidate
group, no matter how odious, that hated Jews as much they did. In related news, the member states of the EU have determined that Adolph Hitler wasn’t really evil … ethics over a 10 year period. In the case of Mongolia, they were comparing 2010 to 2000; the Japanese were comparing 2004 to 1994; the Koreans
- Article · Dec 15, 2014Wealth Today Lags Far Behind 2007
official measurements, the Great Recession is behind us and the economy is slowly recovering. The adverse effects, on the other hand, are still strong. Nearly five years after the recession … liabilities -- fell to $81,400 in 2013, down slightly from $82,300 in 2010, but a long way off the $135,700 in 2007, according to a new report released
- Alexander's Column · Nov 19, 2014The Demos’ REAL ‘Immigration Reform’ Strategy
white laborers would have undermined Lincoln’s political support from the latter. The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass was so angry with Lincoln for delaying the liberation of some slaves that … House and Senate, and then having lost control of the House in the 2010 midterm election, Obama repeatedly pleaded in Latino forums that he had no power to implement
- Opinion · Nov 4, 2014Democrats Playing the Race ‘Deck’ in Midterm Elections
compiled by the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, in 2010, 22 percent of children under 18 lived in poverty and among those 38.2 percent were … anti-poverty programs since the launch of The Great Society in 1964. According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll last year, 24 percent of respondents chose “too much government
- Opinion · Nov 2, 2014A Return to the JFK-Reagan Economic Model
created about 50 million new jobs between 1981 and the onset of the Great Recession in 2007. Unfortunately, the free-market model has largely been discarded in recent years … hikes. Republicans can also continue the war on overspending. Since the GOP landslide in 2010, government spending as a share of GDP plunged from 24.4 percent to 20.3 percent. This
- Alexander's Column · Oct 29, 2014Another ‘Time for Choosing’
votes to the party of handouts. But neither the oppressive New Deal nor Great Society administrations have been able to extinguish the eternal flame of Liberty. Image In 1980, Ronald … largely suppressed the very successful 2010 grassroots Tea Party Movement , which accounted for the “wave” election of 2010, when Republicans won 63 House seats and regained control of that chamber
- Opinion · Oct 19, 2014The Fictitious ‘War on Women’
Coloradoan who lives in a prairie town in a house once owned by his great-grandparents, Gardner is amused by an anomaly: “Udall looks like the Republican in this race … Gardner calls Mark Udall ‘nice guy’; Democrats want ad pulled.” In losing Colorado’s 2010 Senate race, the Republican candidate carried men by 14 points but lost women
- Opinion · Oct 18, 2014Lower Oil Prices Are Unambiguously Good
economy won’t be destroyed. Plus, even $80 per barrel does great economic harm to our enemies Russia and Iran. A good thing. Of course, the fracking revolution has created … small fraction of the roughly 9 million new jobs created since the middle of 2010. There are energy-related spillover jobs, though they’re tough to calculate. A recent Marcellus
- Opinion · Aug 22, 2014Not Nearly as Daunting as the 1960s Riots
tinier than the cities hit by 1960s riots. Ferguson had 21,203 people in 2010; Detroit had about 1.6 million in 1967. In the 25 years between … innocent blacks frequently. But as the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley and Fox News contributor Juan Williams have pointed out, 90 percent of black homicide victims are killed
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2014Our Arrogant President
doesn’t like. When polls began reflecting buyer’s remorse about Mr. Obama in 2010, voters elected a Republican majority in the House of Representatives and might well have done … using his executive powers to bypass Congress. Critics, notably Neil Cavuto of Fox News, have accused the Republicans of engaging in a “stunt” that has no chance of succeeding. Cavuto