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France and the right
Charles Cooke of National Review Online explores the latest developments in French politics. A scandal to mar the French election. Anything less and they wouldn’t really be trying, would they?…
Nicolas Sarkozy
23rd president of the French Republic from 2007 to 2012
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Steyn sizes up recent European election results
Mark Steyn offers readers of the latest National Review his assessment of the recent European election results. Steyn starts with a note about recent “austerity” measures employed in the wake…
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Why France’s leftward electoral swing might turn out OK
France’s recent presidential election of Socialist Francois Hollande sent a bad signal about the country’s willingness to accept the reality of the nation’s fiscal woes. But the latest Bloomberg Businessweek…
Regulation
When regulations stand in the way of growth
How does overregulation stifle economic growth? The latest Bloomberg Businessweek offers an example from France. Here’s a curious fact about the French economy: The country has 2.4 times as many…
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Terror that could put politics in proper perspective
Historian Niall Ferguson admits his latest Newsweek column is based on a “tasteless question”: Has Mohamed Merah’s recent killing spree in Toulouse, France, saved Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential re-election bid? Merah’s…
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Biden’s economic ideas
Look past the fawning question from interviewer Leslie H. Gelb, and the opening exchange in a new Newsweek conversation with Vice President Joe Biden offers some true economic wisdom: NEWSWEEK:…
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Right Place Right Time? Yes. Overrated? No.
Thanks to JLF’s John Hood for pointing me to a Weekly Standard cover piece about the president’s political skill, or lack thereof in the writer’s view. Writer Noemie Emery concludes…
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One way in which Washington could emulate Europe
Rather than push demand-management policies that would lead to crowded, European-style cities dependent on mass transit, perhaps our politicians needs to follow European leaders? example in other ways. TIME offers…
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Good news, bad news in the British Conservatives? success
Pundits still consider Britain?s Conservative Party the most likely winners in next month?s general election. The following quote from a TIME profile of Tory leader David Cameron suggests that outcome…
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RE: But he “worries”
Roy, it’s also maddening that Obama seems to believe that any statement stiffer than oatmeal amounts to “meddling” in Iranian elections. Why not say something like this: “If Ahmadinejad has…
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What Will “Fairness” Bring Us? A Return to Conservatism
Adam Lerrick, writing for the American Enterprise Institute, writes that we only need to look to other nations to see what’s to come for the United States, now that we…
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Barone on the battle over ‘themes’
Michael Barone uses his latest U.S. News column to explain that Democrats and Republicans are both trying to put forward arguments or “themes” that will help carry them through Election…