[President Obama] follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished a hundred years ago. Many of the trends, problems and disasters of our time are a legacy of that era...
"Often wrong but never in doubt" is a phrase that summarizes much of what was done by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the two giants of the Progressive era, a century ago. Their legacy is very much alive today...
The President’s budget locks in historically high spending levels and relies more on tax increases than spending cuts for the limited deficit reduction it proposes...
by Daniel Pipesvia Corner (National Review Online)
Monday, February 13, 2012
Dewy-eyed predictions of democracy within the year proved to be as silly as they appeared to be back then. Instead, a power-hungry military leadership shows it will do whatever necessary to remain in the saddle...
No matter how many times the question is asked, not a single supporter or adviser of President Obama, or the president himself, has been willing to put a number on a “little more”...
Koh has an attorney-client relationship with the government that he did not have as an academic...But in Koh’s case, there is an important additional factor...
A passage in [Lincoln's speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, in 1838] was particularly prescient, even for Lincoln, and warrants revisiting in this day of presidential proclamations and executive czars owing allegiance only to the president...
by Charles Blahousvia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Monday, February 13, 2012
The American Airlines pension situation is a case study in what happens when lawmakers react to pension underfunding by deliberately allowing more of it. Congress needs to think twice before extending this mistake to the entire community of pension plan sponsors...
