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The Real Immorality of Congressman Weiner

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The scandal over the lewd photo of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D – New York) sent from the Congressman’s Twitter account has received much press the last few days. But no one seems to have identified what should be the most scandalous part of the scandal: this statement by Weiner. I think that what people […]

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How to Save Israel

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Peace is not the answer. War is the answer. President George W. Bush never asked for or followed my advice, but I sent him this letter on April 6, 2002: Dear Mr. President: I urge you to make a radical change to your policy regarding the conflict of Israel against the dictatorial and murderous regimes […]

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It is Good to Hate Evil

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Immediately after the monstrously evil, murderous rampage in Tucson last Saturday, leading voices on the political Left in media and government blamed the political Right. In particular, they blamed the TEA Party, along with commentators such as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, for its lack of civility, for its hate-filled, “vitriolic rhetoric” that allegedly leads […]

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Fact-Checking the Keynesian Version of History

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On Sunday, June 27, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman—I state his credentials at the risk of being accused of ad hominem—wrote this in his piece, The Third Depression: … over the last few months there has been a stunning resurgence of hard-money and balanced-budget orthodoxy. … officials seem to be […]

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Fettered Markets

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In his remarks on Wall Street Reform last Thursday, April 22, at Cooper Union in New York City, President Obama said this: I’m going to quote: “Through the great banking houses of Manhattan last week ran wild-eyed alarm. Big bankers stared at one another in anger and astonishment. A bill just passed… would rivet upon […]