Wall Street Lournal: Law & Order: Political Victims Unit and other news, editorials and opinions

Law & Order: Political Victims Unit BY JAMES FREEMAN AND BRIAN CARNEY LAW & ORDER: POLITICAL VICTIMS UNIT  Rep. Jim Jordan co-authored a letter this week to Attorney General Eric Holderexpressing outrage that an Obama political donor is leading the IRS investigation. Mr. Jordan tells us that the FBI informed the House Oversight Committee last fall that Assistant Director Valerie Parlave of the FBI's Washington Field Office was running the case. But the committee later learned from former IRS staff that Justice Civil Rights Division attorney Barbara Bosserman, the Democratic political donor, has taken the lead in questioning witnesses. Justice says it's not allowed to consider political affiliations in making personnel decisions. But we wonder why Congress only learned about her role from third parties. Meanwhile, a Journal editorial this morning compares the IRS scandal to the September closure of New Jersey traffic lanes. And Peggy Noonan says there's a lesson in Jersey for politicians nationwide. ECONOMISTS EXPECT JOB GAINS...  Today is job-report day. The consensus is for 200,000 net new jobs in December, and no change in the 7% unemployment rate. ...BUT PERHAPS NOT ENOUGH TO STOP PRINTING MONEY  Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota said Thursdayevening that weak inflation and "too high" levels of unemployment argue in favor of the central bank doing more to help the economy, reports Dow Jones. Meanwhile the European Central Bank seems just as eager to print more money. Read today's full column »

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Obama's Dividend Assault and others news and views from The Wall Street Journal

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February 22, 2012 -- 5:00 a.m. EST See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on Opinion Journal. Obama's Dividend Assault

A plan to triple the tax rate would hurt all shareholders.

 

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HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR. 
Jenkins: A Stock Market for the Rest of Us?

A Silicon Valley start-up shows big business how its best customers can also be its best shareholders.

 

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JOHN B. TAYLOR 
John Taylor: A Better Grecian Bailout

The fears of contagion from Athens were always exaggerated. Now the issues are whether Greece will reform and whether Europe will cut it off if it doesn't.

 

 

REVIEW & OUTLOOK

Racial Preferences Redux The Supreme Court revisits discrimination and government.    The Tragic Greek Sideshow No country should be forced to remain in the euro against its will.

 

BEST OF THE WEB TODAY JAMES TARANTO Best of the Web Today: Mystification and Triumphalism Why the left can't handle the truth about social conservatism.

 

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RICHARD HAASS AND MICHAEL LEVI Haass and Levi: How to Talk Down Tehran's Nuclear Ambitions Before deciding on war or containment, the West should offer a good-faith compromise to the mullahs and the Iranian people.   *  *  * AUSTAN GOOLSBEE Austan Goolsbee: Jeremy Lin and America's 'New Exports' The U.S. runs a huge trade surplus in tourism, tuition paid by foreign students, even NBA jerseys sold abroad.   *  *  * ANDREW KLAVAN Andrew Klavan: Gary Carter Showed Me How to Play the Game I never met the baseball great, who died last week. But he spoke to me in my darkest hour.   *  *  * BENN STEIL Benn Steil: Why We Can't Believe the Fed The bank's predictions of its own behavior are only as good as its predictions of the economy. It has a poor track record.   *  *  * Notable & Quotable Walter Russell Mead on the government's costly biases against entrepreneurs and small firms.   *  *  * MICHAEL SHERMER Defying the Doomsayers "Abundance" argues that growing technologies have the potential not only to spread information but to solve some of humanity's most vexing problems. Michael Shermer reviews.

 

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The Wall Street Journal - On the Editorial Page: The World's Most Repressive State

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December 20, 2011 -- 5:00 a.m. EST See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on Opinion Journal. MELANIE KIRKPATRICK Melanie Kirkpatrick: The World's Most Repressive State

President George W. Bush famously told journalist Bob Woodward, 'I loathe Kim Jong Il.'

 

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JOHN BOLTON 
John Bolton: 'The Great Successor'

There's no guarantee that the North Korean military will accept another hereditary ruler.

 

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Breaking the Kim Dynasty

Now is not the time for another round of Western bribes.

 

 

REVIEW & OUTLOOK

Liberals Love the 1% A lesson in big business tax favoritism in Illinois.    No Justice for Cellphone Users Antitrust fantasies kill the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile.

 

TODAY'S COLUMNISTS BRET STEPHENS Stephens: Tyranny and Indifference What it means to heed Václav Havel's prescription to 'live in truth.'    WILLIAM MCGURN McGurn: Happy Hanukkah, Marines! Jewish Leathernecks light the way.     BEST OF THE WEB TODAY JAMES TARANTO Best of the Web Today: No Better Place An atheist meets his maker. No, make that his end.

 

COMMENTARY

CHARLES ROXBURGH and SUSAN LUND Charles Roxburgh and Susan Lund: Beware the Global 'Equity Gap' McKinsey projects a growing imbalance between the amount of stocks that investors will want to hold and what companies will need to fund growth.   *  *  * Notable & Quotable Lawrence Lindsey on politicians who pick winners and losers.   *  *  *ALLAN MALLINSON Servants to Masters The story of a family that included Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie and monarchs who elevated Britain to the status of world power. Allan Mallinson reviews "The Royal Stuarts."

 

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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.

 

 

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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.   *  *  * Notable & Quotable Mark A. Calabria on the shifting arguments of liberal Nobel Economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz.   *  *  * 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.   *  *  * 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.   *  *  * 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.   *  *  * 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.

 

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