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Friday, January 10, 2014

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.
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ON THE EDITORIAL PAGE

How Christie Ended Up in This Jam

Grand Theft Disability

Christie and the IRS

Law & Order: Political Victims Unit

COMMENTARY

Fouad Ajami: Obama and the Sunni-Shiite War

Mitchell S. Rosenthal: Let's Not Kid Ourselves About Marijuana

Joni Eareckson Tada: The Disability Double Standard

David N. Laband: An Economics Lesson at the Baggage Carousel

Lucia A. Silecchia: Peter Stuyvesant vs. the Quakers

Notable & Quotable

Review: The Triumph of Human Empire

TODAY'S COLUMNISTS

Kimberley Strassel: Harry Reid's Senate Shutdown

MORE IN OPINION

Political Diary: Chris Christie's Bridge Scandal

Political Diary: Jerry Brown's Tax-and-Spend Games

Best of the Web Today: 'Parity' or Parody?

OPINION VIDEOS

Opinion: Chris Christie's Political Jam

Opinion: Unleashing Fannie and Freddie

Opinion: How the War on Poverty Has Harmed Hispanics

Opinion: Turkey's Erdogan Purges the Police

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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


The Wall Street Journal Online - On Opinion Journal Email
  Online Journal E-Mail Center   
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.
 

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

 
COMMENTARY

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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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Notable & Quotable
Walter Russell Mead on the government's costly biases against entrepreneurs and small firms.
 

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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.
 

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


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Obama Seeks Tax Revamp
The Obama administration will propose lowering the top income-tax rate for corporations to 28% from 35% but would raise overall tax revenue by eliminating dozens of deductions.
 
 
Plan B for China's Wealthy: Move West
Surveys and visa numbers show that members of China's wealthy elite are heading...
 
 
Comcast Takes Aim at Netflix
Comcast is taking aim at Netflix, unveiling an Internet streaming-video service that will give existing Comcast video customers a selection of old TV shows and movies.
 
 
Afghan Central Bank Restricts Cash
Afghanistan's central-bank governor said he will issue new currency...
 
 
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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

The Wall Street Journal Online - On Opinion Journal Email
  Online Journal E-Mail Center   
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.
 
  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.
 
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Notable & Quotable
Lawrence Lindsey on politicians who pick winners and losers.
 
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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."
 
 
See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on Opinion Journal.

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In Capitol, Investors Pay for Trading Tips
Seeking advance word of government decisions is part of a growing,...
 
 
EU Nations Devise Ways to Prop Up Ailing Banks
Governments in Europe are devising unorthodox ways to prop up their banks in an...
 
 
Conoco Granted Alaska Permit
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted ConocoPhillips permission to develop...
 
 
AT&T Drops Deal to Buy T-Mobile
AT&T bowed to U.S. antitrust authorities and withdrew its $39 billion...
 
 
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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.
 

 
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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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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Noonan: This Is No Time for Moderation
America can't trim and tweak its way back to economic dynamism.
 
 
Deficit Panel Hears What Not to Cut
Congress's deficit-cutting supercommittee was deluged with recommendations on Friday. Unfortunately for the panel, much of it was advice about what not to cut.
 
 
U.S. to Pursue African Rebels
Obama authorized deployment of up to 100 combat-equipped U.S. troops to central...
 
 
China Cracks Down on Informal Lending
China has ordered tighter risk controls on bank's wealth-management products, a...
 
 

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