Discouraging young Americans from identifying with their country and celebrating our traditional American quest for liberty and equal rights removes the most powerful motivation to learn civics and U.S. history...
The Obama administration is withholding $800 million in military aid to Pakistan in understandable frustration with the Pakistani military's partial-at-best cooperation with the effort against militant radicals. But this approach is likely to result in even less cooperation...
When the news is bad, shoot at the messenger. As unwise as this strategy may be in the long run, it increasingly describes the response of the European Union’s leadership to the financial crisis...
The real challenge in striking a debt limit deal today has everything to do with a novel and politically troublesome combination of party control in Washington...
One of the reasons the president did not sound convincing in his press conference yesterday is that he has taken so many positions on the debt and taxes that it is hard know what his current one is, or whether to take it seriously, much less to gauge how long it will last...
...[T]he President has been unwilling to negotiate cuts in the massive new increase in health entitlement spending enacted last year. How, then, is this different from Republicans refusing to negotiate on tax increases...?
I offered four lessons from Libya – all of them predicated on the assumption that Muamar Qaddafi goes, whether by lucky drone strike, internal coup or assassination, or flight into exile...
Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, may stand guard over the Sacramento River on California’s state seal. But come next year, there might be an Amazon on the ballot...
Today, the NRDC continues its legacy of costly and specious scare campaigns — this time at the expense of unsuspecting Californians who are footing the bill for the group’s latest cause...
by Charles Blahousvia e21, Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
...[W]hether the budget discussions produce a big deal or a small one, both sides would do well to implement a more accurate measure of economy-wide inflation, namely the “chained” C-CPI-U...
