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Cogan and Boskin: California's Greek Tragedy

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
No one should write off the Golden State. But it will take massive reforms to reverse its economic decline.


McGurn: Bill Maher's 'Fatwa'

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Liberals use Muslim terminology pejoratively, knowing the civility police will never be coming for them.


Mr. Holder Again

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
The Attorney General decides that voter ID in Texas is illegal.


The Jersey Tax Evolution

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
The Garden State pro-tax lobby loses political altitude.


The Perils of Retreat

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Things get messy when a President signals that he wants out of a war.


Notable & Quotable

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Doyle McManus on the persistent unpopularity of ObamaCare.


Matthew Slaughter: How to Avoid a Wind and Solar Trade War

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Too many energy companies focus on political strategies rather than on business. A new trade agreement could change that.


Warren Kozak: The 'Dayton' Lesson for America's Shrinking Military

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Three years into America's post-World War II drawdown,not a single U.S. nuclear bomber could hit a large, undefended target in Ohio.


NASA takes to YouTube to say end is not near

According to NASA, Christmas can go ahead this year — the world will not end on Dec. 21.

In a recent YouTube video, one of the agency's top scientists debunks various doomsday theories linked to the supposed end of the Mayan calendar. While some expect planetary collisions, massive solar storms ...

The Low-Down On High-Rises

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Tough real-estate developers, featherbedding unions, falling debris and workmen—and the need to get a high-rise up and earn a profit. Roger Lowenstein reviews "Good Guys, Wise Guys, and Putting Up Buildings."


Ex-Rutgers student accused in webcam spying trial not testifying

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Jurors in the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of using a webcam to spy on his roommate's intimate encounter with another man will not hear directly from the defendant.

Dharun Ravi's defense lawyer rested his case Monday without calling Mr. Ravi to testify.

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Letters reveal Nixon as young Romeo

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Long before Richard Nixon rose to power and fell from grace, the future president was just another man in love.

Decades before he became known to some as "Tricky Dick," Nixon was the one coining nicknames (sweet ones) for his future bride, in gushy love notes ...

Best of the Web Today: That 70s Show

Opinion Journal - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Elderly feminists try to turn back the clock.


2nd Wis. judge strikes down state's voter ID law

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin judge on Monday struck down the state's voter identification law less than a week after another judge temporarily stopped it, complicating plans for state officials who want the law in place for the upcoming presidential primary.

Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess issued the permanent ...

Suit: NASA specialist axed over belief in intelligent design

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A computer specialist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is going to court over allegations that he was wrongfully terminated because of his belief in intelligent design.

Openings statements in the lawsuit by David Coppedge were expected Monday afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Mr. Coppedge, who ...

Tight GOP races in Deep South

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Despite calling contests in the South "a bit of an away game" last week, Mitt Romney appears to be in a virtual tie in two polls released Monday for this week's Alabama and Mississippi primaries.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

U.S.: WTO says Boeing got fewer subsidies than Airbus

GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization has ruled that Chicago-based Boeing received far fewer illegal government subsidies than its European arch-rival Airbus over more than a quarter-century, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Monday.

Mr. Kirk called the ruling "a tremendous victory for American manufacturers and workers" after a ...

Crowley: Will Romney begin the end in South?

CNN - Politics - Thu, 2024-11-28 12:56
Rick Santorum hopes to parlay his weekend win in Kansas into a strong Tuesday in Mississippi and Alabama. Two things stand in the way of that: Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics
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