In spite of the obvious failures of the current administration, I am reminded from a number of directions that this country is still deeply divided over a range of fundamental issues and that regardless of our choices in 2012, I believe it will require a number of election cycles to work through these conflicts. Candidates […]
Archives for 2011
Whither Europe With or Without the Euro or the Union?
Europeans today prefer leisure to performance, security to risk-taking, paternalism to free markets, collectivism and group entitlements to individualism………….Economic freedom has a very low priority here.—Vaclav Klaus, President, Czech Republic In this excerpt from a speech delivered last June in Berlin, President Klaus has pretty succinctly summed up the most critical of many problems facing […]
Education Reform: The Battle Continues
The release last week of the results of the “nation’s report card” from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) produced the usual commentary on the Texas scores, ranging from “glass half full” to “glass half empty”. My colleague Sandy Kress has prepared an insightful analysis of these results, after briefly covering a summary of […]
Obamacare is Far from Dead
We have evidence in the past several days that the grounding for the expectation of a judicial firewall that might bail the country out of the disastrous impact of the Obama health care plan is shaky at best. And this is not just because the DC Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law, but because of the surprising reasoning […]
Supply Side Tax Policy 101
They just don’t get it. Or more accurately, it doesn’t meet their needs. The political left and their fellow travelers cannot seem to grasp the logic and historical success of supply side economics, particularly as it relates to fiscal policy that gives priority to marginal tax rate cuts. To supply side guru Art Laffer it’s […]
Science Marches On
Comes now word that Einstein’s theory of relativity is under review. This theory in turn depends on the “bedrock” theory of physics that nothing in the universe can travel faster than light. But the latest experiments in Europe indicate that a fired beam of neutrinos (whatever those are) has exceeded the speed of light. Of course, further validation […]
Enough is Enough in Pakistan
I don’t pretend to know exactly what to do about it, but we have plenty of evidence of acts of war committed against America by our “ally” Pakistan, now brought into the open by retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen. Defending Americans is Job One for a Commander in Chief, and I don’t […]
Bad Fed Policy Made Worse
Congressman Barney Frank has another flawed idea–somehow he thinks that the Federal Reserve has too much independence from political guidance, so he has a plan to reduce the representation of the regional Fed bank presidents on the central bank policy board and replace them with political appointees. We have enough problems with monetary policy as […]
What Am I Missing?
Another major battlefield success for America in the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a major Al Qaeda leader, and yet we endure another round of dismay from the usual suspects plus Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul about the questionable constitutionality of the event. What don’t we understand about the fact that we are a country at war and […]
The Field is Set, But Who has the Answers?
What you see is what you get. The Republican field for the nomination for President is set and it’s on to the main event, so quit looking for the knight on a white horse–he or she isn’t coming. Can one of the candidates measure up to the challenge? We’ll see, and one of them will […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 6
- Next Page »