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powerlineblog.com - 11/19/2008
Creative destruction at risk
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Niall Ferguson is a bestselling author, a professor of history at Harvard, a senior research fellow at Oxford, and a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Ferguson is also as engaging a speaker as one could wish to hear. Last night Ferguson spoke at a dinner in Washington D.C. ...
Here There Bee (More) Pirates … and Might the Obama Administration Take Them Out?
opiniojuris.org - 11/17/2008
Here There Bee (More) Pirates … and Might the Obama Administration Take Them Out?
— opiniojuris.org — Somali pirates strike again, this time hijacking a Saudi-owned tanker off the coast of Kenya . The... running stand off with the hijacked ship carrying arms and a Ukrainian crew continues; Russia announces that it repelled an attack on a different ... (more) Here There Bee (More) Pirates … and Might the ...

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mcclatchydc.com - 11/20/2008
Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq
— mcclatchydc.com — WASHINGTON — Although the Pentagon officially has welcomed the new accord on a U.S. troop withdrawal from... Iraq, senior military officials are privately criticizing President Bush for giving Iraq more control over U.S. military operations for ... (more) Why the U.S. blinked on its troop agreement with Iraq

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Why GM Deserves Support
online.wsj.com - 11/19/2008
Why GM Deserves Support
— online.wsj.com — Much has been said about the impact of the credit crisis on U.S. auto makers, and whether... or not the government should assist the industry during this extraordinary financial turmoil. In these discussions, many critics simply ignore the substantial ... (more) Why GM Deserves Support

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Stop The ACLU:  Stock Market Crash: Dow Below 8000

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Stock Market Crash: Dow Below 8000
Stop The ACLU — ... Stocks are crashing because of news this will be long term, and because government keeps interfering with the market. Government meddling caused this crash, and government attempts to print money and hand it out to everyone like an ATM is making it worse. Stop interfering and the market will correct itself. No more bailouts! Gateway Pundit thinks it is a post-election sell off , and that may play a factor, but there is more to it than that. Its all the bailouts too. Powerline takes a serious look.

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