What drove [California Rep. Lynn] Woolsey out of office wasn’t burnout or a sense of mission completed. Instead, the culprit was two changes in California’s political landscape...
Who are socialists? There are none. Only technocratic overseers who wish to give someone else’s money to others as a means of winning capitalist-style lifestyles and power for themselves...
The Senate’s NDAA language on detainee matters, about which I have previously written here and here, is now available. I have two additional thoughts on the Senate language...
Charles Krauthammer today argues for “a new constitutional understanding, mutually agreed to by both political branches, that translates the war-declaration power into a more modern equivalent...”
The Russian financial crisis came to a head in August 1998, unexpectedly, when many government officials, bankers, and IMF staffers were on vacation. As you pack your bags this summer, think about it...
...Egypt’s highest religious council — and the senior religious authority among Sunni muslims — published an extraordinary document that should give us all hope Mubarak’s fall may advance freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law in Egypt...
CBO’s Long-Term Budget Outlook released this week is essentially the same as last year’s: without a change in policy the debt will explode to over 900 percent of GDP...
Economics Professor Russ Roberts and filmmaker John Papolaspoke about their two rap videos about economics. The most recent was "Fight of the Century..."
