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The Occupy Movement Returns
Video of obscene signs and gestures, squalid encampments, and crowds of leftists exchanging anarchist hand gestures do not qualify as good optics for a political movement.
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The Commerce Claws
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The Merit of Assessing Teachers
if North Carolina hired, evaluated, and paid teachers on the basis of performance, there would be tremendous educational, fiscal, and economic benefits.
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What’s making us all sick
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They Walked the Line
North and South Carolina may have begun life as part of the same 17th century colony, but they soon became very different places.
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Obama sees the green economy
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When Truth Lost Its Temper
The difference between the Democratic and Republican education budgets amounted to less than 1 percent of teaching positions statewide.
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‘Occupy’ Protesters Could Learn Much From Palmer’s Morality of Capitalism
The Morality of Capitalism is aimed especially at young people who have gotten a negative impression of capitalism — as the subtitle accurately suggests, college students are likely to hear little that’s good or accurate about it in their courses — but even veterans of the battle for liberty will find a lot of fresh, intriguing material here.
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Though Not a ‘Tell-All,’ Arm’s Length a Delightful Autobiography
For the reader looking for a tell-all book by a Secret Service agent assigned to the White House, Within Arm’s Length: The Extraordinary Life and Career of a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service, will be disappointment. However, the reader who wants to read a great autobiography will be delighted.
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Freeze Details Iceland
In this relatively short but highly illuminating book, economics professors Philipp Bagus and David Howden (both of whom are schooled in Austrian theory) explain the collapse of Iceland’s economy in 2008. Why bother with the difficulties of that little nation (population 313,000) in the remote North Atlantic? The reason is that the Icelandic debacle stemmed from exactly the same governmental blunders that have caused so many other boom and bust cycles around the globe. Iceland’s horrible recent experience has important lessons for Americans — indeed for people everywhere.
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