NR Daily: A National State of Non-Emergency

Blame Joe Biden. Once upon a time, many years ago, Joe Biden labored under the charming delusion that he might someday be elected president of these United States. His ambitions came to nothing — a little less than that, in fact — but in the service of them, he set loose an enormously destructive force in American politics — procedural maximalism — that has hobbled our institutions and set the nation on a course of fundamental governmental dysfunction ...

July 26 2017

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A National State of Non-Emergency

Kevin D. Williamson

Blame Joe Biden. Once upon a time, many years ago, Joe Biden labored under the charming delusion that he might someday be elected president of these United States. His ambitions came to nothing — a little less than that, in fact — but in the service of them, he set loose an enormously destructive force in American...

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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II

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'Freedom's Forge is the story of how the ingenuity and energy of the American private sector was turned loose to equip the finest military force on the face of the earth. [A] timely lesson told by one of the great historians of our time.' - Donald Rumsfeld

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