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7:30 AM, Nov 18, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

CBS New York: "OWS Protesters Chant ‘Follow Those Kids!’ As Small Children Try To Go To School On Wall Street"

Walter Russell Mead: "Obamacare, We Hardly Knew Ye"

Boston Herald: "Elizabeth Warren won’t sign off on Occupy Harvard"

National Journal: "Obama Was Wrong: U.S. Downgrade Didn’t Send Interest Rates Soaring"

Shikha Dalmia: "Treasury Admits What Everybody Already Knew: Taxpayer Losses On GM Bailout Are Going to be Massive"

7:30 AM, Jun 8, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Why not just call for an individual Chevy Volt mandate? "General Motors Co. CEO Dan Akerson wants the federal gas tax boosted as much as $1 a gallon to nudge consumers toward more fuel-efficient cars."

Megan McArdle: "Anthony Weiner Admits to Sending Racy Photos: Should We Really Ignore It?"

7:00 PM, Jun 3, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

William McGurn on Notre Dame's new ties to Emily's List.

"Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change."

7:00 PM, Apr 19, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Support school choice programs? Just go ahead and "drop dead."

Even when that friend's son is a murderer? "Well, hello! I mean, of course you help a friend."

The Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf are selling like . . . electric cars.

11:19 AM, Mar 4, 2011 • By JONATHAN V. LAST

Hey everybody--it's the Age of the Electric Car! Sales numbers for the Chevy Volt are out and you'll never guess how many of these future machines consumers gobbled up in the month of February. Go ahead and try. I'll wait.

The life jacket the government threw to the private sector has become a straitjacket.

Aug 16, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 45 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

Since 2008, the federal government and the Federal Reserve have spent some $3 trillion to secure the financial system and prevent a second Great Depression. What did all this money buy us? A really expensive life jacket.

How Russia and China take advantage.

Aug 9, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 44 • By IRWIN M. STELZER

America runs large and persistent trade deficits. Our partners figure out how to make lots of things we want, and we can’t figure out how to produce an equal amount of stuff they want—or are permitted by their governments to buy.

The taxpayer still owns the automaker.

4:17 PM, Apr 26, 2010 • By MATTHEW CONTINETTI

My eyebrow rose last week when I read that GM CEO Ed Whitacre's Wall Street Journal op-ed was titled "The GM Bailout: Paid Back in Full." This isn't true--GM may have paid off loans from the federal government, but the Treasury is still GM's majority shareholder, at a cost of about $50 billion. That money won't be recouped (at a probable loss) until GM goes public. Wall Street Journal headline writers: The GM bailout is not paid back!

12:29 PM, Feb 3, 2010 • By JONATHAN V. LAST

In this month's Wired, Chris Anderson launches another of his counter-intuitive, techno-supremacy arguments: That we are on the verge of another American industrial revolution, only this time it will be carried out in micro-scale by DIY entrepreneurs.

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