Month: January 2010
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Jonah Goldberg’s Elegant Paean to Capitalism
It’s worth reading the whole thing, but since you won’t, here are the concluding stanzas: America, with its markets, stands alone as the leading, arguably sole, source of medical innovation. Breakthrough drugs are as American as apple pie. Every good thing capitalism helps produce — from singing careers to cures for diseases to staggering charity […]
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Obama: “Our Nation is at War Against a Far-Reaching Network of Violence and Hatred”
Perhaps all of the criticism from Dick Cheney and others about a law-enforcement approach to terrorism has had a positive effect. In his weekly address today, President Obama reprises one of the better lines from his Inaugural Address: It’s been nearly a year since I stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and took […]