Pakistan has shown surprising determination and competence in its struggle against one part of the Islamist network. The United States must show similar determination and competence in our struggle against the other.
A clever commander like McChrystal and the capable troops he leads will no doubt figure out how to make the most of what they have got. But a half-surge would seem to cut their prospects of winning by more than half.
There is cognitive dissonance at the White House.
By David Frum
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The Times
Friday, November 6, 2009
To the outside world, the president still represents transformation, but at home his record is disappointingly thin.
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By Paul L. Joskow
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AEI Press
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
In this timely monograph, Paul L. Joskow argues that the crisis in the financial market should not become an excuse for reversing beneficial regulatory reforms in other sectors.
This volume is a is a lively, readable, and balanced collection of articles by distinguished scholars from both sides of an often-contentious debate over the complex relationship between gender and vocation.
By Walton Francis
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AEI Press
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
This careful analysis of Medicare and the FEHBP is an invaluable guide for policymakers considering major health reforms while juggling the twin problems of runaway health care spending and looming Medicare insolvency.
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Columbia Business School Publishing
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Hubbard and Duggan make the case that current foreign aid and Third World projects--particularly in Africa--aren't working and that the developed world must rethink how it allots aid money.
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By Ronald W. Reagan
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AEI Online
Monday, November 9, 2009
Ronald Reagan's speech in December 1988 on the struggle of people everywhere for freedom anticipated the momentous events that would occur in 1989.
The administration's rationale for setting up a government-run resolution authority--to the extent that it is based on the idea that the interconnectedness of Lehman caused the financial crisis--is not well founded.
Risk-inviting microeconomic rules of the banking game that are established by government have always been the key additional necessary condition to producing a propensity for banking distress.
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