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2010-12-07T06:00:55-05:00

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What should the government do?

Last updated on: December 7, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson points out that before we can cut government spending, we need to arrive at a philosophy of government: Modern democracies have created a new morality. Government benefits, once conferred, cannot be revoked. People expect them and consider them property rights. Just as government cannot randomly confiscate property, it cannot withdraw benefits without violating a moral code. The old-fashioned idea that government policies should serve the “national interest” has given way to inertia and squatters’ rights.... Read more

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2010-12-07T05:30:01-05:00

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Wikileaks’ head as James Bond villain

Last updated on: December 7, 2010 at 5:30 am By Gene Veith

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British police are reportedly closing in on Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks, with plans to arrrest him on Swedish sexual assault charges. But now Assange, playing the role of a James Bond villain, has devised a doomsday weapon set to go off if anyone interferes with his fiendish plans: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has reportedly released an encrypted “poison pill” file that contains sensitive data related to Guantanamo Bay, Afghan military ops, Bank of America and the BP oil... Read more

2010-12-07T05:00:12-05:00

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Stimulus jobs are just about over

Last updated on: December 7, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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An illustration of the futility of creating jobs by just spending government money for construction projects. Once the projects are finished, we are back to unemployment. And all of those “shovel-ready” construction jobs are just about finished. From The Washington Post: The stimulus was here. Those words should be embossed on a stretch of Route 29 outside of Charlottesville, where paver operator Clifford Carter poured hot asphalt one year ago. The $885,000 project, funded by federal stimulus dollars, took two... Read more

2010-12-06T10:14:32-05:00

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The Fall of the American Empire

Last updated on: December 6, 2010 at 10:14 am By Gene Veith

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Foreign affairs think tanker Robert D. Kaplan argues in the Washington Post that the United States and the Soviet Union constituted, in effect, two empires that organized the world between them. Other countries mostly aligned themselves with one side or the other. The Soviet Empire collapsed, leaving the United States alone in the imperial role. But now, according to Kaplan, the American empire has collapsed. Because of our military quagmires, our economic problems, our diplomatic weakness, and our overall popularity... Read more

2010-12-06T10:13:51-05:00

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The revenge of the marketplace

Last updated on: December 6, 2010 at 10:13 am By Gene Veith

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The mass transit system in Washington, D. C., is in a financial crisis. This is because, in an effort to raise money, the government raised prices. Which has resulted in fewer and fewer people using the system. The across-the-board fare increase imposed by Metro this summer has led to a drop in bus ridership and less-than-expected rail revenue as a result of changing travel patterns, an initial analysis by Metro shows. Bus ridership has fallen 7 percent, with overall Metro... Read more

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2010-12-06T10:12:52-05:00

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Fighting debt problems by encouraging debt

Last updated on: December 6, 2010 at 10:12 am By Gene Veith

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The usually liberal Fareed Zakaria on the incoherence of the government’s attempts to fix the economy: Washington is asking consumers to stop saving and start spending, while the government issues more debt and the Fed lowers rates – all measures designed to increase debt. In other words, we are fighting a crisis caused by excessive debt by encouraging excessive debt. Is that really the best way to get growth? The investment manager and guru Jeremy Grantham says no. In his... Read more

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2010-12-03T06:05:56-05:00

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Atheists seeking market share

Last updated on: December 3, 2010 at 6:05 am By Gene Veith

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Get ready for a bunch of ads promoting atheism, funded by at least four different sects of atheists, each seeking market share. From the New York Times: Just in time for the holiday season, Americans are about to be hit with a spate of advertisements promoting the joy and wisdom of atheism. Four separate and competing national organizations representing various streams of atheists, humanists and freethinkers will soon be spreading their gospel through advertisements on billboards, buses and trains, and... Read more

2010-12-03T05:40:33-05:00

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Another conversation with my brother

Last updated on: December 3, 2010 at 5:40 am By Gene Veith

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In case you missed it on the George Bush & Aids post, my brother and I had another exchange, in the course of which I formulate what I consider a truly conservative economic ideology: He says: OK. I (“Dr. Veith’s” younger brother who is still and always will be a Democrat) hereby give George Bush credit for saving millions of lives as a result of his AIDS initiative. Hey, that felt kind of good! Now for you conservatives, isn’t it... Read more

2010-12-03T05:00:56-05:00

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The bloodiest war since WWII

Last updated on: December 3, 2010 at 5:00 am By Gene Veith

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If Ben Affleck is right, a slaughter that approached Holocaust proportions happened, but hardly any of us noticed: Ask many Americans to name the bloodiest war since World War II and chances are that most would not know the answer. If you told them it was in Africa, they might guess Rwanda or the ongoing conflict in Sudan. They’d be wrong. By far, the deadliest conflict was in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1998 to 2003. Eight African... Read more

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Congolese war

2010-12-02T06:00:34-05:00

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George Bush & AIDS

Last updated on: December 2, 2010 at 6:00 am By Gene Veith

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Bush haters, will you at least give him credit for saving some 5 million lives in Africa, due to the AIDS initiative that he was responsible for? Bono, at least, does. In the past 10 years, HIV infections have dropped by 20 percent. Medical experts say the combination of new treatments and a greater focus on prevention has been a success story. But, according to specialists in the field and AIDS activists alike, in sub-Saharan Africa — where efforts on... Read more

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