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Now I'm Tempted By Dumpster Diving

‘Galatea’ is a columnist writing about her experience looking for work after her recent downsizing. Previous entries in her series can be span class="s1"> read here

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Written by Galatea on Tuesday November 1, 2011

`In Time' is a Parable Against Tight Money

I can't recommend the new Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried sci-fi action thriller In Time on the basis of its acting or plot (both are mediocre) but I can recommend the film as a parable about bad monetary policy. Here is the premise of the film: in the future, humans are genetically …

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Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Monday October 31, 2011

Overlooked Clue in Cain's Sex Harassment Story

Here's the most neglected detail in the Politico story on Herman Cain and the sex harassment charges: Both women received separation packages that were in the five-figure range. In the context of late 1990s sex harassment litigation, that is a small settlement. (Here's a sampling …

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Written by David Frum on Monday October 31, 2011

The GOP's Best Case/Worst Case

In my column for CNN, I discuss how the Tea Party will react to the different possible outcomes of the 2012 election: A new CNN poll finds that about half of Republicans sympathize with the tea party movement. The other half either remain aloof or (5%) even express hostility. That second …

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Written by David Frum on Monday October 31, 2011

The Math on Social Security Doesn't Add Up

Social Security politics is like malaria—it never really leaves the body politic and it flares up without warning. Thus, the absolutely unsurprising “ revelation ” in the Washington Post that demographics and economics have combined to begin the inevitable drain of the “surpluses” in the …

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Written by Steve Bell on Monday October 31, 2011

Want to End the Drug War? Regulate Pot.

America passed a little-noted milestone in 2009 as drug overdoses outnumbered traffic fatalities for the first time ever to become the primary cause of accidental death . The cause? It wasn’t cocaine or heroin or some terrifying new criminal import. The doubling in drug related deaths over the …

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Written by Chris Ladd on Monday October 31, 2011

Conrad Black Relives His Trial

I’ve not read reviews of Conrad Black’s new book, A Matter of Principle , but it’s a remarkable work -- unlike any of its kind that I’ve ever read. It tells the story of his Chicago trial and subsequent conviction. While the trial is the core of the book, Conrad (excuse the informality—but …

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Written by Peter Worthington on Sunday October 30, 2011

Why Cruz Pretends to Believe Conspiracies

The race for the GOP nomination for US Senator from Texas took an odd turn recently. Ted Cruz, the former Solicitor General of Texas, is running for this seat against various opponents, including Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst, who is widely considered to be the frontrunner at this …

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Written by Mark R. Yzaguirre on Sunday October 30, 2011

Malcolm Wallop RIP

In the inimitable style of the British obituary, the Daily Telegraph remembers Malcolm Wallop, who represented Wyoming in the US Senate from 1977 through 1995: [Wallop] was born on February 27 1933 in New York City, son of Oliver Wallop, the younger son of the 8th Earl of Portsmouth – …

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Written by David Frum on Sunday October 30, 2011

Europe's Debt Solution is Forced Unification

In my column for the National Post I discuss how the solution to the European debt crisis is going to force a closer union between member states: If the euro is not to bust up, it must be saved. Friday morning, The Globe & Mail reproduced on its front page one plan to save the euro. …

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Written by David Frum on Saturday October 29, 2011

Looking Back at `America in Primetime'

For the next month, starting this Sunday, PBS takes a most interesting four-week look back at America in Primetime, a production of the late Peter Jennings' Documentary Group, in association with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The series appropriately coincides not only with …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday October 28, 2011

The Fat Diaries: Can You Enjoy Halloween Without Candy?

Some of you already know that I’ve been blessed with daughter who doesn’t like most sugary foods. It doesn't matter if it is ice cream, candy, chocolate, pies—with the exception of blueberry muffins and yellow cake with no frosting, my four-year-old has little-to-no interest in sweets. She would …

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Written by Monica Marier on Friday October 28, 2011

My Sun News Network Interview

While I was in Toronto on October 27th, I had a chance to interview with Michael Coren of Sun News Network. We discussed what I think is wrong with the economic proposals from many Republicans, but also why President Obama has not been doing his job very well. amateur porn You can watch …

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Written by David Frum on Friday October 28, 2011

More Corporate Speech, Less Rancor

I couldn't agree more with Joe Trotter's points about corporate speech . (For a variety of other reasons, I think that we should not tax corporations either.) I'd actually go a step further: more corporate speech would be good for the political tone of the country. Contrary to the claims of …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Friday October 28, 2011

An Idea For Republicans

In the 1990s, many Republicans took the problem of hard-core poverty seriously. (One of those poverty-conscious Republicans was Sen. Rick Santorum, now the one presidential candidate who takes seriously the data on faltering upward mobility in America.) In 1999 and 2000, candidate George W. …

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Written by David Frum on Friday October 28, 2011

How Pepsi Won the Cola Wars in Russia

Pepsi’s love affair with Russia dates way back to the early days of the cold war. It all started with Nikita Khrushchev taking a harmless sip of the drink at an American trade exhibition in Moscow in 1959. Donald M. Kendall, himself Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo recalls …

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Written by Robin Tim Weis on Friday October 28, 2011

How to Job Hunt on the Weekend

'Galatea' is a columnist writing about her experience looking for work after her recent downsizing. Previous entries in her series can be read here . My family is well bred for survival. We barely escaped political turmoil before coming to America. We clawed our way from poverty and welfare …

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Written by Galatea on Friday October 28, 2011

After Gaddafi's Rule, Libya Gets Sharia Law

If George Bush's adventures ended up handing Iraq on a silver platter to America's enemies in Iran, President Obama's softer and gentler imperialism has been the catalyst that stands to deliver North Africa into the hands of the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood. Dumb and Dumber could hardly ask …

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Written by Tarek Fatah on Friday October 28, 2011

Don't Praise the Greek Debt Deal

Whether today’s announcement that holders of Greek sovereign debt have agreed in principle to a 50% haircut on the face value of the instruments raises some critical questions. On the surface, with the notion of first-loss guarantees of new debt taking shape, this addresses the problem of …

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Written by Jeff Cimbalo on Thursday October 27, 2011

Meet Jeff Cimbalo

Frum Forum is honored to welcome a new regular contributor, Jeff Cimbalo , who will write about the gathering crisis in the European Union - a crisis of democracy as well as of debt and currency. It's difficult to do justice to Jeff's polymathic genius. A lawyer and litigator based in …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday October 27, 2011