For pure wishful thinking, or maybe pure silliness, it is going to be tough to top President Obama’s call this …
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Green Shoots For A Frozen Housing Market
Almost exactly two years ago, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told “60 Minutes” that he was beginning to see “green …
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‘Club Wegmans’ Shows We Can Still Get Together
It isn’t news that some supermarkets offer customers a chance to get dates in the produce department without ever touching …
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Piracy Reaches Its Foregone Conclusion
When Somali pirates killed four Americans last week, criminals pulled the triggers, but the guns and bullets were paid for …
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‘Card-Check’ Is The Latest Commerce Clause Battleground
For nearly half a century, federal lawyers have argued that it is both illegal and unconstitutional for states to infringe …
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Giving Wisconsin Taxpayers A Say On Pay
Regular readers know me as a fiscal conservative, but that’s not the crowd I run with. My small Facebook posse …
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A Revolutionary Idea: Stasis Is Not Stable
Financial markets around the world recoiled this week at the spectacle of Libya’s bloodbath, but it was not out of …
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A Stock Exchange Needs More Than A Big Tree
On May 17, 1792, 24 stock brokers met under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. Lower Manhattan has been a …
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Including Sex In Sex Education
Here is a disclaimer I never expected to write for this column: Today’s commentary includes some graphic discussion of sex. …
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