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 November 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 […]