Politics

Economides, Ioannides, Petrakis, Pissarides and Stengos: What's at Stake in the Greek Vote

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
If a Greek exit from the euro zone looks close to certain after Sunday's election, we will see a full-fledged bank run.


David Skeel: Clerical Privilege and the Law

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
Should criminal confessions offered in religious settings be excluded from trial?


Harvey Golub: A Simple Tax Code Is a Fair Tax Code

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
The top 1% pays more in federal income taxes than the bottom 90%. But the system is biased toward the powerful in other ways.


Walter Borneman: When the U.S. Declared War on Britain

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
The political fallout from the War of 1812 helps explain why Congress has never again so vigorously exercised the power over war entrenched in the legislative branch.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
Rich Karlgaard on Lance Armstrong, secular Jesus.


Juan Ramón Rallo: A 'Bail-In' Could Save Spain's Banks

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
Let's convert debt to equity, so investors bear the cost of their own mistakes.


Yosemite's falling-boulder risks

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. | Falling boulders are the single biggest force shaping Yosemite Valley, one of the most popular tourist destinations in the national park system. Now swaths of some popular haunts are closing for good after geologists confirmed that unsuspecting tourists and employees are being lodged in harm's ...

Obama, Romney offer competing visions

CNN - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
President Obama and Mitt Romney lay out differing views of the economy as they court support among Ohio voters.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

An Infamous Crime Revisited

Opinion Journal - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
Bruno Hauptmann was the only person arrested (and convicted) in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, but investigators were certain that he didn't act alone. In "Cemetery John," Robert Zorn says he knows who the mastermind was. Edward Kosner reviews.


Court OKs release of 'perversion files' compiled by Scouts

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday approved the release of 20,000 pages of so-called perversion files compiled by the Boy Scouts of America on suspected child molesters within the organization for more than 20 years, giving the public its first chance to review the records.

The files, ...

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States....

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Dueling speeches: Obama, Romney go at it in Ohio

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
CLEVELAND (AP) -- President Barack Obama cast his re-election race against Republican Mitt Romney as the economic choice of a lifetime on Thursday, seeking to stir undecided voters and asking the nation to buy into his vision for four more years or face a return to the recession-era "mistakes of the past."...

Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) -- Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States....

Biden to Va. high school grads: Banish cynicism

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....

Biden to Va. high school grads: Banish cynicism

AP - Politics - Wed, 2024-11-27 02:43
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden has told Virginia high school graduates to believe that the U.S. has a bright future....
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