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Enough Already A welfare state we can live with. |
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Civil Liberties Betrayed? Joel Mathis has had it with Barack Obama. Mathis voted for Obama to end torture, Guantanamo detentions, and warrantless wiretapping. Not only has the Obama administration tabled those agenda items, but the president's decision to sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last week was, for Mathis, "the final betrayal." |
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Rated R-17 For Graphic Violence I'm sorry, but how seriously can we take advice from the writing team of Blood and Gore? |
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Osawatomie's Dichotomies Near the conclusion of his big speech in Kansas this week, President Obama praised business leaders who understand "their obligations don't just end with their shareholders." The president singled out Marvin Windows and Doors, based in Warroad, Minnesota, for not laying off a single employee during the recession, and choosing instead to cut the pay and perks of both workers and management. |
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Supercommittee Ends; Superelection Begins The voters are running out of elections cycles in which they can decide by not deciding. Now that all politics is fiscal, the 2012 election is likely to be dominated by the choice between the parties' mutually exclusive approaches to taxing and spending. |
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Diane Ravitch Takes It All Back But she had it right the first time. |
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If They Come, You Will Build It The moral of the story is clear: States' populations grow and shrink for mysterious, idiosyncratic reasons. A strong economy results from, but does not cause, these population shifts. |
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Let's Prohibit People From Voting if Their SAT Scores are Lower Than Jacob Weisberg's The American people can be forgiven for tuning out such leaders. It's not because they use big words or complicated equations. It's because, despite the words and equations, they don't really seem to know what they're talking about. It's not a complicated phenomenon. Perhaps someday even Jacob Weisberg will comprehend it. |
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Showdown At Ideology Gap There are any number of reasons to feel pessimistic about the future of conservatism, but the need to secure resources and set priorities won't soon disappear, which means it's likely to be a while before happy days are here again for liberalism. |
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Tax Facts According to the Congressional Budget Office, Schrag's last three contentions are, respectively, wrong, misleading, and wrong, at least as they pertain to federal taxation. |