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Number of Those Working Past 65 Is at a Record High
www.nytimes.com
“While the number of workers over the traditional retirement age has risen, those 55 and under are doing worse.” [...]
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Jonathan Haidt Answers Your Questions About Morality, Politics, and Religion
www.freakonomics.com
Quoting from this Freakonomics interview with University of Virginia psychology professor Jon Haidt, “Once I lost my feelings of repulsion and anger [...]
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‘Fair Trade? Its Prospects as a Poverty Solution’
www.amazon.com
“Fair Trade is an enormously popular idea in Christian and secular circles alike. Who, after all, could be against fairness? Victor V. [...]
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Obama losing rock star status with young
campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com
“Michael Barone on polls showing the Obama enthusiasm deficit among young voters.”
Can Obama Run on His Foreign-Policy [...]
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online.wsj.com
“The Wall Street Journal argues that President Obama rocks the youth vote by socking taxpayers.” This is an important part of the news that President Obama didn’t slowjam the other night on the Jimmy Fallon [...]
Yesterday, David Brooks published an interesting essay in the New York Times entitled “Is Our Adults Learning?“ The basic premise behind his essay can be summarized in the following quote, “Government doesn’t profit from experience because of the way it goes about testing its policy problems. It should try learning the [...]
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online.wsj.com
“In The Wall Street Journal, Rodney Mock and Nancy Shurtz write that when using TurboTax or other tax software, taxpayers deserve the same defense from IRS penalties as Tim Geithner.” Quoting further from this [...]
This coming Saturday will mark the one year anniversary of the creation by the Obama administration of the “Financial Fraud Enforcement Working Group” (see the MSNBC article from 4/21/2011 entitled “Obama says new task force will examine gas prices”, available on the web at http://on.msnbc.com/JdlbDx). [...]
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Want to Save the Planet? Turn Right
online.wsj.com
“In The Wall Street Journal, Raymond Zhong interviews Roger Scruton, Britain’s foremost conservative philosopher, who offers a traditionalist manifesto to discomfit both the left and American free-marketeers.”
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www.washingtonpost.com
Quoting from this article by Charles Krauthammer, “The administration’s case for the constitutionality of Obamacare was so thoroughly demolished in oral argument that one liberal observer called it “a train wreck.” It is perfectly natural, therefore, [...]
