http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576319120403551648.html By PHILIP KERR As the author of eight mystery novels on Hitler and the Nazis, I’m sometimes asked why I choose to write about this subject. Hasn’t the time come when, in a tidy phrase beloved of Tony Blair, we should “draw a line” under the war and move on? Indeed, the question was […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303936704576397482909877032.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion The IRS’s Charity Purge Small nonprofits don’t need more paperwork assignments from Washington. By SUZANNE GARMENT AND LESLIE LENKOWSKY The Internal Revenue Service announced this month that 275,000 nonprofit groups—around 18% of the country’s tax-exempt organizations—have lost their federal exemptions because they failed to file Form 990s. The announcement was a long time in […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304259304576375491103635726.html The tea party favorite on her start in politics, where she learned her economics, and why she disagrees with Reagan on the War Powers Resolution. By STEPHEN MOORE “If I’m in, I’ll be all in,” says Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, artfully dodging my question of whether she’s running for president. Given that she […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304778304576373712869124184.html?mod=WSJ_Election_LEFTSecondStories By NEIL KING JR. For months, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has told potential donors and Republican higher-ups he has no interest in running for the White House in 2012. But over the past two weeks, political advisers and friends say, Mr. Perry has changed his tune on a possible presidential campaign. In private conversations, […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363984173620692.html AND THOSE PUSILLANIMOUS REPUBLICANS WHO ARE COWERING AWAY FROM PAUL RYAN ARE WORSE THAN THE DEMS…..AT LEAST RYAN ALTERED THE CONVERSATION…RSK MARTIN FELDSTEIN “The economy will continue to suffer until there is a coherent and favorable economic policy. That means bringing long-term deficits under control without raising marginal tax rates—by cutting government outlays and […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303745304576359841146126376.html The Republican Who Can WinThe candidate would know Americans are more worried about their jobs and their savings than abstractions like ‘big government.’ By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ To win the presidency in 2012, the Republican candidate will require certain strengths. Among them, a credible passion for ideas other than cost-cutting and small government. He or […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363650808141710.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTSecond By JOHN FUND It seems everyone is talking about Texas Gov. Rick Perry as a possible Republican presidential candidate. Even Sarah Palin, contemplating her own entry to the 2012 race, spontaneously brought up Mr. Perry’s name recently as someone to watch. Mr. Perry, who has long claimed he has no interest in running for […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703730804576319122938720438.html?KEYWORDS=DAVID+MAMET By ANDREW KLAVAN In a celebrated 2008 essay for the Village Voice, David Mamet made the startling announcement that he was “no longer a brain-dead liberal.” I think it only fair to mention here that I rejoiced. Mr. Mamet is a terrific playwright, maybe even a great one (“American Buffalo,” “Glengarry Glen Ross”) and […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704569404576299241421694066.html Obama’s Unspoken Re-Election Edge This presidency flatters America to a degree that no white Republican can hope to match. By SHELBY STEELE “Another kind of charisma redounds to those willing to challenge political correctness—those unwilling to be in thrall to the president’s cultural charisma.Lastly, there must be a Republican message of social exceptionalism. America […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703421204576331364065189624.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion By SETH LIPSKY It’s been 25 years since I found myself sitting in the office of Karl Otto Poehl, the president of the West German Bundesbank. I was then a young editorial writer at The Wall Street Journal intent on asking Europe’s most powerful central banker how he felt about the monetary crisis of […]
