The global warming apocalypse and its Elmer Gantry, Al Gore, may have faded from public view lately, but that old-time green religion is still making mischief...
There is a wish to cut and paste the flawed Republican candidates’ strengths into a composite nominee...I have no endorsements, or at least not complete endorsements...
Pitter spent Tuesday and Wednesday of this past week, as did I, watching the Al-Nashiri military commission. But in reading her piece, I wondered whether she and I had watched the same arguments...
By “socialist,” I do not mean a Lenin, Castro, or Mao, but whether Obama falls within the mainstream of contemporary socialism as represented, for example, by Germany’s Social Democrats, French Socialists, or Spain’s socialist-workers party...?
After Saturday’s vote in South Carolina – a stirring win for Gingrich and a troublesome setback for Romney – “draggy situation” is an apt phrase for what lies ahead in the Republican search for a standard-bearer...
In a 2009 study done for the Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET), Ohio State University economist Paul D. Evans considers a broader criterion: the effect of capital gains tax rates on overall federal tax revenues. What's the difference...?
by Kori Schakevia Shadow Government (Foreign Policy)
Friday, January 20, 2012
Allegiances cast in stone for generations are fracturing -- what opportunities the rocking of boats in the Middle East presents! What a pity the Obama administration can't come up with a strategy to capitalize on them...
The labor market is improving and there are more quits than layoffs, says Edward Lazear, Stanford University economics professor, who adds, even though the market is improving there is still a "world of hurt"...
Guests: The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (The Terry Lectures Series) by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack, Henry Miller, Hoover Institution, Exeunt, Riva Richmond, NYT...
Mitt Romney's latest slip up was revealing that the $374,328 he makes from speaking in one year is pocket change. Tod Lindberg, Columnist for the Weekly Standard, joins the show to elaborate...
with John B. Taylorvia Surveillance Midday (Bloomberg Television)
Friday, January 20, 2012
John Taylor, a professor of economics at Stanford University and a former Treasury undersecretary, talks about Federal Reserve monetary policy. Taylor also discusses U.S. fiscal policy and the economy, and Greece's debt crisis...
Col. David Hunt and Prof. David Henderson discuss America’s current military campaigns and Ron Paul’s call for limited military involvement around the world...