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Opinion: Is Obama Spurring Growth, or Knocking It Down?

(July 8) -- Government can spur the private sector. That's the gist of the argument that's in the air this summer. This week, for example, President Barack Obama said, "we've got much more work to do to spur stronger job growth and to keep the larger recovery moving." Such spurring is often said to occur in a technical...

Calvin Coolidge Has Become Hero to Tea Partiers

PLYMOUTH, Vt. (July 3) -- In the Vermont hamlet where Calvin Coolidge was born, folks will celebrate his star-spangled birthday the way they always do. A Vermont National Guard contingent and a color guard will gather at noon on the village green and walk down to the Plymouth Notch Cemetery, where Coolidge is buried,...

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05/20/12 Amity Shlaes: Commitment to smaller government matters... Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN The scarlet letter these days is still an A, but it isn't A for adultery.
05/03/12 Amity Shlaes: Gold and the case for the 'nut cases' Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN And if you take an interest in them, you are a nut case, too.