Can Our Economy Survive Without Big Banks? 12.9.09
Timing is to politics what location is to real estate. Good policy ideas are useless if the time is not right. In a democracy, leaders must focus—and be seen to focus—on the problems the public cares...
View ArticleHow well does our embattled president grasp just war theory? 12.11.09
President Obama gave a pretty good speech when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Maybe it was a little too eloquent. I don’t much like soaring rhetoric; I know there are times to soar, but Obama does...
View ArticleCollusion Against Our Youth 12.14.09
I’ve grown somewhat weary writing about the devastating effects of minimum wage laws but The Wall Street Journal’s “Black Youths Miss Out on Good Job News,” (Dec. 4, 2009) warrants another try. Today’s...
View ArticleOur ‘So-Called’ Leader 1.28.10
Of the many tall tales spun by President Barack Obama during the State of the Union address this week, there is one — and perhaps only one — that most Americans believe to be true. The old yarn goes...
View ArticleBeyond Our Means 1.29.10
Health Care: The California Senate voted last Thursday to create a government-run single-payer medical care program. Do the 22 lawmakers who voted for this bill realize that the state will run out of...
View ArticleGod Save the US and Our Courts 2.1.10
While the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts are preparing to go head-to-head in Super Bowl XLIV at Sun Life Stadium in Miami, U.S. justices and even our president are squaring off in arenas...
View ArticleOur Islamist Envoy 2.22.10
Infiltration: What a tangled web Islamist appointees weave. When his pro-terrorist quotes surfaced, a new White House envoy dismissed them as someone else’s. A recording says otherwise. Now Rashad...
View ArticleIs Our Government Really Broken? 2.23.10
If you want to see broken government, consider the fall of the constitutional Roman Republic and the rise of Julius Caesar: “Fortune turned against us and brought confusion to all we did. Greed...
View ArticlePlacing Our Faith in Economic Oracles 3.2.10
One of the sadder categories in the history of human misfortunes is the list of those things that are obvious, but wrong. By definition, if something is obvious, most people agree with it, and thus, it...
View ArticleOur Deficit-Enabling Media 3.2.10
The deficit for last year was $1.4 trillion. The deficit rose as a share of the gross domestic product from 3.1 percent in 2008 to 9.9 percent in 2009, the highest deficit as a share of GDP since 1945....
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