A friend and I were talking in a coffee shop, and then two more guys briefly joined us, both highly educated, both interesting, and one of them especially provocative. He pronounced that capitalism, at its least fettered, was immoral, a form of "piracy," and at its best — when properly bound and regulated — still amoral.
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One year ago, Americans entrusted their hopes and aspirations for themselves, their families and the future to a new Democratic Congress. They demanded a new direction that makes America safer, restores the American Dream for hardworking families, and restores accountability and fiscal responsibility to Washington.
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Not only is the French president standing tough against Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the powerful unions aiming to preserve his country’s corrosive welfare state, but he also took on Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes" when she asked him a gossipy question about his relationship with his then-wife during taped interviews.
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According to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s new $146 billion state budget will have no operating deficit. But there are serious questions about the reliability of the numbers because California, unlike other states, does not require dynamic revenue analysis, contrary to the wishes of many state Democrats.
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Step up to the front of the House, Pete Stark. Do your thing. Help show Americans just how fanatically ideological and stridently partisan at least one Democrat has become these days. It will help them evaluate how rational your views are, including the one that we should expand a children’s health insurance program.
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It’s hard to imagine a congressional action more pointlessly provocative than passing a resolution that Turks committed genocide against Armenians some 90 years ago. But here come House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, many of her fellow Democrats, and some Republicans, with an ironclad determination to do just such a detrimental thing to their country.
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara was executed 40 years ago this week, and the impulse to honor him is bursting out all over. Celebrations are taking place in such places as Cuba, Bolivia and Ireland, a priest has called him a saint and hosts of other people are likewise instructing us on what a hero he was, what a moral giant, what a fierce combatant for justice in an imperialist-threatened, inhumane world.
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On Sept. 6, Israel fired up warplanes that flew deep into Syria to a site near the city of Dayr az Zawr where they executed an airstrike. Then all went silent. And by silent, I mean no one in an official capacity mentioned it. Israel went mute. Syria fell quiet. The airstrike itself raises many questions, such as what was attacked and why? But the "elephant in the room" question is where was Syria’s outrage? Why were both sides in this encounter silent?
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Washington, D.C., legislators and presidential candidates are setting up No Child Left Behind to fail. Former North Carolina Democratic Sen. John Edwards is the latest candidate to suggest that we need multiple ways to "measure higher-order thinking skills, including open-ended essays, oral examinations and projects and experiments."
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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is so intent on doing good without first thinking things through that it’s inevitable he will do incredible harm. He’s clearly on the way with his recent move to dish out driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.Maybe, of course, he was motivated less by charitable impulse than political opportunism, for, of course, labor unions and immigration groups are already offering up hand-burning applause.
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