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Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Wall Street Journal - On the Editorial Page: The Exasperation of the Democratic Billionaire

October 15, 2011 -- 5:00 a.m. EDT

See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on Opinion Journal.

JAMES FREEMAN
Mortimer Zuckerman: The Exasperation of the Democratic Billionaire

Real-estate and newspaper mogul Mortimer Zuckerman voted for Obama but began seeing trouble as soon as the stimulus went into the pockets of municipal unions.

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RUPERT MURDOCH
Rupert Murdoch: The Steve Jobs Model for Education Reform

If we can engage a child's imagination, there's no limit to what he or she can learn.

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HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.
Jenkins: Class War---or Generational War?

Let's have this fight today, before demographics turn even more unfavorable to the young and productive.

REVIEW & OUTLOOK

A Better Idea for Green Jobs

It's crazy to educate the world's brightest and then deport them.

Class Dismissed

HHS pulls the plug on one of ObamaCare's main fiscal illusions.

Egypt's Fading Spring

While Tunisia votes, Cairo still lacks a democratic transition.

TODAY'S COLUMNIST

PEGGY NOONAN
Noonan: This Is No Time for Moderation

America can't trim and tweak its way back to economic dynamism.

BEST OF THE WEB TODAY

JAMES TARANTO
Best of the Web Today: Ho Hum, a Black Candidate

Though Herman Cain's race does agitate some on the left.

COMMENTARY

Steve Malanga: How California Drives Away Jobs and Business

The Golden State continues to incubate cutting-edge companies in Silicon Valley, but then the successful firms expand elsewhere to avoid the state's tax and other burdens.

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Notable & Quotable

Mark A. Calabria on the shifting arguments of liberal Nobel Economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz.

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WEEKEND BOOK REVIEWS

MARTIN FLETCHER
Five Best: Nations and Lives in Transition

For every refugee or exile starting a new life, there is another story of a country undergoing change—the country left behind or the adopted home. Martin Fletcher, NBC New's former Tel Aviv bureau chief, says these books excel in telling those stories.

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SAM SACKS
Rebel Ascendant

A literary iconoclast's riotous storytelling has found world-wide success. But a question lingers: How good is Haruki Murakami? Sam Sacks reviews.

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JAMES KENNEDY
Instinct With Hellish Life

"Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!" tells of how an obscure Haitian bogey rose from the dead to conquer literature and popular culture. James Kennedy reviews.

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MATT LABASH
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride

"Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone," a collection of the writing of Hunter S. Thompson, reveals a talented outsider who, in his early days, changed the meaning of journalism. Matt Labash reviews.

See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on Opinion Journal.

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