Category Archives: Wall Street Journal

A Boost for Obama Likely to Be Fleeting

By CAROL E. LEE And JANET HOOK The U.S. strike against Osama bin Laden will likely give President Barack Obama an immediate boost in popularity at a moment when unemployment and high gas prices are taking a toll on his approval rating and Republican opponents are criticizing his foreign policy. The next test of the [...]

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Moody’s Downgrades Ireland

By MARK BROWN And MARTIN VAUGHAN LONDON—Moody’s Investors Service Inc. downgraded Ireland’s government debt by two notches Friday, taking the country to the brink of junk status, and kept its outlook negative. The agency, cutting Ireland’s bond ratings to Baa3, one notch above junk, from Baa1, said it was responding to a likely deterioration in [...]

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Forget the liberal hype about a comeback: 2010 was a stunningly bad year for Barack Obama, and 2011 could be even worse

By Nile Gardiner gnore the revisionist hype in sections of the liberal media about President Obama staging a (mythical) political comeback – this is a presidency with an approval rating of 45 percent (according to the RealClear Politics poll of polls), that presides over a nation where just 27 percent of voters think the country [...]

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The Desolate Wilderness

A chronicle of the Pilgrims’ arrival at Plymouth, as recorded by Nathaniel Morton. Here beginneth the chronicle of those memorable circumstances of the year 1620, as recorded by Nathaniel Morton, keeper of the records of Plymouth Colony, based on the account of William Bradford, sometime governor thereof: So they left that goodly and pleasant city [...]

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Democrats Retrench as GOP Pulls Away

By LAURA MECKLER And JANET HOOK Democratic strategists acknowledged they are abandoning a dozen House seats the party now holds, as they try to salvage their majority in the chamber by shoring up candidates with better chances. With Republicans expanding their advertising to broaden the field of competitive races, Democrats are shifting resources to help [...]

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Private Sector Sheds Jobs

By KATHLEEN MADIGAN WSJ.COM Private businesses unexpectedly cut workers in September, according to data released Wednesday. Private-sector jobs in the U.S. fell by 39,000 last month, according to a national employment report published by payroll giant Automatic Data Processing Inc. and consultancy Macroeconomic Advisers. Economists had expected ADP to report a job gain of 20,000 [...]

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The Outlook Dims for Democrats

Below is a brief excerpt from Karl Rove’s excellent article in this morning’s ONLINE WALL STREET JOURNAL. As always, the “architect” nails it with his analysis of the upcoming mid-term elections. Although this looks like a prototypical “wave” election that is almost unstoppable at this point, I again urge everyone to help out in your [...]

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A Sanctuary for Terror

The militants wage war in Afghanistan while using Pakistan as a place for rest, recuperation and recruitment.   By SADANAND DHUME Perhaps the most surprising thing about the so-called Afghanistan war logs released by WikiLeaks Sunday is our continued capacity to be shocked. That the war isn’t going as well as advertised is already painfully [...]

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Obama’s Latest Monstrosity

By:  John Berlau  The American Spectator  The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that President Obama will sign today should not be called “financial reform.” Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what [...]

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Happy Birthday to The Wall Street Journal…Founded July 8,1889

That’s right. The Wall Street Journal, that venerable business paper of record, turns the big 121 Thursday. The first edition was a four-pager published at 3:15 p.m. back on July 8, 1889. Of course, we’ve changed a lot since then. For instance: The paper cost two cents. It’s two bucks today. The word “To-Day” was [...]

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