...[W]ithout enough people packed into a given space, there will never be enough riders to repay the high cost of building and maintaining a high-speed rail system...
The showdown between public employee unions and cash-strapped state governments on display in Madison should be bad news for President Obama and the Democrats...
The real issue is not the U.S. government's debt ceiling to accommodate ongoing deficit spending, but rather the wall that we are about to hit. This wall will be raised by foreign governments balking at financing U.S. debt...
...[We] should cease being surprised that the president editorializes about extraneous issues while ignoring critical ones...You see, that is what community organizers do, now and in the past...
Here is a discussion by an opponent of Walker's move that, as far as I can tell, gets the facts right. Except for one thing. It's not about rights. It's about power...
There are clear cases where U.S. government officials crack down on freedom of speech. The Federal Communications Commission does it regularly. This isn't one of them...
The simplest way to understand the proposed budget is that it largely (not completely) undoes this two-year binge and brings spending back to about what agencies had to spend in 2008...
As the first week of political wrangling over the president’s proposed budget comes to a close, I find myself agreeing in part and disagreeing in part with Dr. Blahous’s argument...
The Wisconsin clash is a symbol of the times...[In] recent years the union movement has gotten a shot in the arm from an unexpected source: the government employee...
Alan Bock of the Orange County Register interviews David R. Henderson, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution and an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California...
Bernie Madoff's first interview from prison materialized in the New York Times on Tuesday...It all preempts the question: Who's next? We rang up Jonathan R. Macey, one of our go-to guys on securities and corporate finance law...
