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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.

 

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.   *  *  * 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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Serving up Chowder to save the Marine Corps - National Historic Americans | Examiner.com

Serving up Chowder to save the Marine Corps - National Historic Americans | Examiner.com: "When one hears the phrase, The Few, the Proud, the Marines! images fill the mind of brave men and women who follow in the footsteps of their forbearers to protect America. When played by the President’s own, the Marine Band, patriotic goosebumps break out on one’s arms as the notes of the Marine Hymn fill the air. It is hard to image such a magnificent group once stood in harm’s way of being dismantled... http://www.examiner.com/historic-americans-in-national/serving-up-chowder-to-save-the-marine-corps

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TheTentacle.com: "February 22, 2012 The “Magic” of Jackie Robinson Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4934

The first day of Baltimore Orioles’ spring training began Sunday when the pitchers and catchers reported for the annual ritual in Sarasota, Florida.

It’s a sure sign that – thankfully – spring weather is about to make its debut in Maryland.

Baseball has always been a favorite topic for many local history writers. And why not? Writing about baseball is fun. It has everything to warm the keyboard including summertime, arcane statistics, intrigue, colorful events, talent, family, and friends.

Articles about sports are fun to read and sports writers are some of my favorite writers… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4934

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Marjorie Censer - Washington Post: GSA focuses on small businesses as fed spending falls

By Marjorie Censer, Published: February 19, 2012 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/gsa-focuses-on-small-businesses-as-fed-spending-falls/2012/02/13/gIQAHwT1NR_story.html

As federal spending shrinks, the General Services Administration says it’s taking an active effort to help small businesses win government work.

The agency has been hosting weeklong training sessions across the country for small businesses that hold spots on GSA contract vehicles known as schedules. It also has been providing online events for companies looking to break into government work and promoting a mentor-protege program that partners large and small businesses.

“It’s very clear that the government is going to be spending less money, so that means that it is going to be tougher [and] there are going to be fewer dollars to chase,” said Steven J. Kempf, commissioner of GSA’s federal acquisition service. Small businesses are “going to have to chase harder, they’re going to have to sharpen their pencils.” … http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/gsa-focuses-on-small-businesses-as-fed-spending-falls/2012/02/13/gIQAHwT1NR_story.html

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Obama: Cut NWS. Effect on Keys? No one knows and other news from KeysNet.com

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  The Obama administration's proposed cut of National Weather Service funding in the coming year could have an impact on the agency's Key West operation, but it's way too early to tell.
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  Convicted by a Key West jury Thursday night of skimming thousands of dollars from taxpayer-funded grants, Norma Jean Sawyer, the 60-year-old former executive director of the nonprofit Bahama Conch Community Land Trust, faces sentencing March 21.

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  Rough conditions couldn’t defeat Poor Girls ladies’ tenacity

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  Anyone driving by Mrs. Mac’s Kitchen in Key Largo around lunchtime is likely to slow down at the mini traffic jam caused by diners trying to squeeze into the small parking lot of the popular eatery.

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Gazette.Net: Witness: Alleged shooter said, ‘That’s how I get down’ after state trooper’s 2010 killing

Gazette.Net: Witness: Alleged shooter said, ‘That’s how I get down’ after state trooper’s 2010 killing:

Seat Pleasant resident retaliated for being kicked out of Forestville Applebee’s, prosecutors say

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Shortly after the killing of an off-duty Maryland State Trooper outside a Forestville restaurant in 2010, the Seat Pleasant man now on trial for the fatal shooting told his friend, “That’s how I get down,” the friend testified Wednesday.

Cuffed and dressed in an orange prison outfit, Anthony Andre Milton II, 29, of Seat Pleasant recounted the night of June 10, 2010, when, he said, Cyril Cornelius Williams, 29, called him asking for a gun Williams had previously loaned him.

Within hours of the alleged call, Maryland State Trooper Wesley Brown, 24, was shot dead. Brown was working off-duty security at a Forestville Applebee's and was one of two security officers who escorted Williams outside earlier that night for allegedly being disorderly... http://www.gazette.net/article/20120216/NEWS/702169798&template=gazette

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Eagle Archive: Murder and mayhem led to Carroll's last public hanging in 1916

Eagle Archive: Murder and mayhem led to Carroll's last public hanging in 1916

By Kevin Dayhoff, February 19, 2012, http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0219-20120215,0,7885898.story

Two sensational murders were the talk of Carroll County in February years ago.

The first involved a thrilling trial and the other, a murder which resulted in the hanging of Solomon Sutler, Friday, April 14, 1916, on gallows purchased from Adams County for $25.00. It was the third and last hanging in the county’s history.

The first hanging was in June 1859, when the only woman ever to have been executed here, Rebecca McCormack, was hung for stabbing a 13-year-old boy with a pitchfork. Then, in 1874, Joseph Davis was hanged.

On May 21, 1920 the now defunct Union Bridge Pilot wrote about the thrilling trial for the January 29, 1920 murder of Dominick Fabrizzi. “The trial of Mrs. Dominick Fabrizzi aged 29 who admitted killing her husband near here…, then placing the body on the R. R. tracks, was begun in Westminster on Monday morning…” … http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0219-20120215,0,7885898.story

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Sad Times for Eastman Kodak, TheTentacle.com: February 15, 2012, by Kevin E. Dayhoff

Sad Times for Eastman Kodak, TheTentacle.com: February 15, 2012, by Kevin E. Dayhoff

There have been many tragedies of economic malaise in the last five years. Kodak’s recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy seems especially sad; and it is only fitting that we pause for a moment to pay our respects.

According to an article in The Wall Street Journal by Mike Spector, Dana Mattioli and Peg Brickley on January 20, “Kodak's board, meeting by telephone, voted to seek bankruptcy protection at 4:48 p.m. Wednesday after a 75-minute discussion of the company’s position, a person familiar with the matter said. The company filed the documents shortly after midnight.”

Then, as if the laws of nature endeavored to pour salt in the wound – and our collective memories – the venerable 132-year old icon of American hard work and innovation announced it was going to stop making cameras… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=4921

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