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The 'tax gap' in profile.
Internet consumers beware.
By Arlen Specter and Edwin Meese III
How Eric Holder enabled federal prosecutors to bully defendants.
By Ruth R. Wisse
Which of our last two presidents made the world safer?
— Brandie Pahl, responding to "Pelosi's Toy Story."“I am praying every day for amendments to this legislation that will make it possible for me to stay in business.”
By Karl Rove
The honeymoon doesn't last long.
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
Sri Lanka is beating the Tigers through military force, not negotiation.
From today's Wall Street Journal Asia
By Richard Katz
Fiscal pump-priming can work to revive the economy.
From today's Wall Street Journal Asia
By Jamie James
American conductor Kent Nagano led the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in a performance of interpretive intelligence.
By Richard John Neuhaus
From First Things: It's been one of the most massive and sustained expressions of citizen participation in our history.
BOOKSHELF
By Christine Rosen
How a reformer claimed to discover the effects of undeserved charity.
By Stephen Moore
If "Atlas Shrugged" were required reading for every member of Congress and the Obama administration, the current financial mess would end faster.
By Nat Hentoff
The Kennedy Center celebrates Martin Luther King's Birthday and Obama's inauguration with a concert that explores how "America's triumphant music" fought Jim Crow.
By John J. Miller
Publishers, historic sites, and the U.S. Postal Service line up to commemorate the bicentennial of America's first master of horror.
"It was the very first production at Hampstead Theatre, in 1960. He [Harold Pinter] wrote to me and asked me to play Riley [in "The Room"].
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By Scott Whitlock
From Newsbusters.org: The 'Good Morning America' news anchor conducts a surprisingly tough interview with the Democratic House Speaker.
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