Category Archives: Wall Street Journal

The Presidential Wheel Turns

Posted on April 26th, 2013

      Disaffection for Bush gave us Obama. That explains the new affection for Bush   Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 because he was not George W. Bush. In fact, he was elected because he was the farthest thing possible from Mr. Bush. On some level he knew this, which is why [...]

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Rove: Steaming Toward the ObamaCare ‘Train Wreck’

Posted on April 18th, 2013

 The implementation of this unpopular law is a story of missed deadlines and general bungling. By KARL ROVE   In congressional testimony last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blamed Republican governors for her department’s failure to create a “model exchange” where consumers could shop for health-insurance coverage in states that don’t set [...]

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Gold On Track for Biggest One-Day Fall Since 1983

Posted on April 15th, 2013

By CLEMENTINE WALLOP, BIMAN MUKHERJI and FRANCESCA FREEMAN Gold continued to take a battering Monday, shedding more than $100 per troy ounce after China registered weaker-than-expected growth, sparking a new wave of selling on concerns that China and India – the world’s two biggest buyers – may slow purchases. Gold is on track to post [...]

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Noonan: Government by Freakout

Posted on February 23rd, 2013

Obama’s scare tactics aren’t much of a long-term strategy. The president’s sequester strategy is like Howard Beale in “Network”: “Woe is us. . . . And woe is us! We’re in a lot of trouble!” It is always cliffs, ceilings and looming catastrophes with Barack Obama. It is always government by freakout. That’s what’s happening [...]

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Notre Dame Student Right to Life Club to Lead 2013 National March in Washington, D.C.

Posted on December 30th, 2012

Congratulations ND Student Right to Life Club on being chosen to lead this year’s March for Life! NOTRE DAME, IN — We publish below the students’ invitation to join them in prayer and, if possible, also in person. We include also a Wall Street Journal column calling on the university to “fight for” the unborn [...]

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P.J. O’Rourke: Dear Mr. President, Zero-Sum Doesn’t Add Up

Posted on December 28th, 2012

  Is life like a pizza, where if some people have too many slices, other people have to eat the pizza box?   By P.J. O’ROURKE Given that hypocrisy is an important part of diplomacy, and diplomacy is necessary to foreign policy, allow me to congratulate you on winning a second term. I wish I [...]

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Henninger: Obama’s Ruinous Course

Posted on December 6th, 2012

    Where in his career did Barack Obama ever learn the art of the political deal? Nowhere.     A wise judge once wrote in dissent that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Let us now extend that wisdom to presidential elections. Barack Obama says his election victory is a mandate to pursue [...]

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GOP Deficit Plan Irks Conservatives

Posted on December 5th, 2012

  Discord Complicates Negotiating Position of Boehner, Who Punished Four House Members; Obama Calls for Higher Taxes   WASHINGTON—Conservatives on Tuesday took aim at House Speaker John Boehner’s deficit-reduction proposal in the fiscal cliff talks, a dispute that was aggravated by Mr. Boehner’s decision to remove some conservatives from prized committees. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., [...]

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Elected, but Still Campaigning

Posted on November 27th, 2012

  Obama Steps Up Effort to Rally Support for Fiscal Plan, Will Meet With CEOs     WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is ramping up the White House’s postelection effort to generate public support for his preferred package of tax increases and spending cuts. Mr. Obama, while standing firm on his viewpoint during talks with Republicans, called [...]

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The GOP Turnout Myth

Posted on November 23rd, 2012

  To win future elections, Republicans will need more than better get-out-the-vote software.   By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL To win the next presidential race, the GOP will have to understand what went wrong in 2012. To do that, they’ve got to come to grips with what did, and did not, happen with turnout. Even as [...]

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