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The Bullet Train to Bankruptcy

Posted on March 09, 2011
Researchers and residents are growing suspicious of high-speed rail in California. Californians have a reputation for questioning authority. And increasingly, they appear to be questioning the High-Speed Rail Authority, which voters empowered in 2008 to issue $9...

A Modest Fiscal Proposal

Posted on March 09, 2011
How to stop the government from devouring the economy Do you have an infant? If you do, her share of the government debt is now $45,000. By the time she can read this article, it will have grown to at least $70,000...

Hungary?s iPad Constitution

Posted on March 09, 2011
Its framers must remember that ideas have consequences. In what will surely be a publicity boon for Apple, especially among political scientists, Hungary's new constitution is being written on an iPad...

King Hearings Are Overdue

Posted on March 09, 2011
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Enter the Dodge

Posted on March 09, 2011
A tea partier challenges Sen. Olympia Snowe. Despite the fact that he declared his candidacy almost two years before the election, Andrew Ian Dodge begins his senatorial campaign with a simple motto: 'It's better to get it right than quick...

On the GOP Menu for 2012

Posted on March 09, 2011
Hunger for victory is the best sauce. And now we enter the mope-y phase of the GOP presidential contest. The gloom takes many forms, but foremost is the fear that the field taking shape might be the one we're stuck with...

Vivian Schiller Leaves NPR

Posted on March 09, 2011
Looking back at her tenure as a liberal media titan Today, Vivian Schiller resigned as chief executive officer of National Public Radio. 'I'm told by sources that she was forced out,' NPR's media correspondent, David Folkenflik, has reported...

Schiller?s Replacement

Posted on March 09, 2011
Joyce Slocum takes the helm at NPR. National Public Radio has dropped Vivian Schiller, its chief executive officer, and put its general counsel, Joyce Slocum, in her place. Can we expect a fresh pair of eyes on NPR's bias now that Slocum's in charge? Well, Slocum told Super Lawyers in July 2009 that she 'had been an NPR fanatic for many, many years...

Just Say No to Judicial Enforcement of a Balanced-Budget Amendment

Posted on March 09, 2011
It?s an invitation to judicial activism. Almost everyone, maybe even Pres. Barack Obama, agrees that our elected politicians cannot control their own appetites. They have driven the nation into a deficit ditch in an orgy of overspending the likes of which has not been seen since World War II...

The Glories of Cities

Posted on March 08, 2011
Aristotle said the polis was man?s natural home. Ed Glaeser agrees. Say 'Urban Economics,' and for those familiar with the discipline, Ed Glaeser is the first name that comes to mind. The Harvard professor and Manhattan Institute senior fellow has become an authority on the subject within the academic world and without -- his pieces in City Journal and the New York Times's Economix blog have deployed accessible economic analysis to dispel myths about and highlight the benefits of the city...

February Diary

Posted on March 08, 2011
Predicting the economy, learning Turkish, evaluating rudeness, and more. How bad will it get? That's the question hovering in the air. Back of that is the deeper question: Is this recession of the past three years just like other recessions that we eventually pull out of and recover from, or is it some new thing? That deeper question lurks behind a great deal of commentary nowadays...

Qaddafi, Ch�vez, & Co.

Posted on March 08, 2011
The Obama administration will suffer from a crisis of credibility until it stands up to the tyrants in our own hemisphere. When Venezuela's Hugo Chávez flew to Tripoli in 2004 to receive the Moammar Qaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, he joined a select club...

The Left, Scott Walker, and
Feigned Indignation

Posted on March 08, 2011
Yes, politicians support laws that would weaken their political opponents. It's being played as big news that one consequence of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's efforts to dial back public-employee collective bargaining is that it would, gasp, weaken his political opponents...

The $50,000 Orgasm

Posted on March 08, 2011
Northwestern University?s Human Sexuality professor has provided a brilliant demonstration of the state of higher education. On February 21, the 600 Northwestern University students enrolled in the popular Human Sexuality course taught by Prof...

Obama and the Tea Party, &c.

Posted on March 08, 2011
Like you, probably, I noticed the big news from Kenneth T. Walsh's new book, about black Americans and the White House. (For an excerpt, go here.) President Obama has said that racism is at least part of what motivates the Tea Party. I said 'big news,' but it's not, really: It was kind of written in stone...

Union Myths

Posted on March 08, 2011
Private-sector workers haven't been immune to unions' deleterious effects as government workers have. The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians...

The Plight of the Weaker Sex

Posted on March 08, 2011
Alpha girls marry child-men. The 1990s were a decade of girl-panic. Feminists such as Carol Gilligan and Mary Pipher worried about our 'girl-destroying' culture. The president of the Ms. Foundation urged women not 'to leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world...

Impervious to Evidence

Posted on March 08, 2011
Supporting failed programs is moral vanity. My friend E. J. Dionne Jr., a liberal columnist for the Washington Post, is a fine man with, I feel safe in asserting, a warm heart. But he betrays in a recent column a persistent failing of the Left -- imperviousness to evidence...

Hawkeye Newt

Posted on March 08, 2011
Newt Gingrich, (almost) presidential contender, does a political dance in Iowa. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich attempted a tricky balancing act last night in Waukee, a small town outside Des Moines: In a speech (video here) to social conservatives at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, he blasted President Obama's values; then, minutes later, in a Fox News interview, sought forgiveness for his own past indiscretions...

Is Dick Lugar Too Liberal?

Posted on March 07, 2011
Some Indiana tea partiers say he is. If Indiana tea partiers have their way, Republican Dick Lugar is entering the twilight of his Senate years. 'For the last couple of years, his voting record has gotten progressively more liberal and more progressive...

Defense Lessons from Europe

Posted on March 07, 2011
Europeans have believed that international institutions could replace defense. We can learn from their mistakes. The world has a way of working against an American president's own predilections and priorities...

An Emergency for Americans Under 30

Posted on March 07, 2011
For the Debt Paying Generation, huge burdens, high inflation, and a weakened economy. A news alert for the Debt Paying Generation: President Obama's budget for Fiscal Year 2012 brings the national debt from $14...

Salvaging Government Journalism

Posted on March 07, 2011
Public broadcasters might see their funding axed. It's SOS time at National Public Radio -- 'save our subsidies.' Today, NPR will put CEO Vivian Schiller in front of a sympathetic National Press Club audience to plead for Congress to spare its funding...

Long-Term Budgeting, Obama-Style

Posted on March 07, 2011
The health-care law?s hidden features President Obama's 2012 budget has rightly been lambasted as completely detached from fiscal and economic reality. Even under the budget's own rosy assumptions, the country would accumulate $7...

Pawlenty to Like

Posted on March 07, 2011
Adapted from the Mar.7, 2011 edition of NR Kevin Krawczyk is disappointed. A manager at the Family Christian Store chain, he is hosting a book-signing for Tim Pawlenty in Lombard, Ill. 'We were expecting more,' he says...

Mamas in the Classroom

Posted on March 07, 2011
Sixteen and pregnant, but with a GPS for a new direction. ‘What can you do to stem the tide of teen pregnancy?' Jacquelyn Wideman asks from New York City, where the rate is at least 12 percent higher than the national average...

Who?s to Blame for Union Woes?

Posted on March 07, 2011
Unions are still fighting a management that died long ago. The labor-union movement is in deep trouble. Only 6 percent of private-sector employees are union members. Voters are beginning to realize, thanks to governors like Chris Christie of New Jersey and Scott Walker of Wisconsin, that public-sector unions have negotiated unsustainable levels of pensions and benefits -- and that public-sector unions are a mechanism for involuntary transfers of money from taxpayers to the Democratic party...

Arid Uka?s Gratitude

Posted on March 05, 2011
Multiculturalism says he?s as German as Helmut and Franz. Except he?s not. According to Bismarck's best-known maxim on Europe's most troublesome region, the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier...

Jean-Jacques Jihad

Posted on March 05, 2011
There is a reason leftists and Islamists collaborate: totalitarianism. The one thing that absolutely could not be tolerated was true freedom, the liberty of the individual. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 'social compact' would otherwise be 'an empty formula...

American Brownshirts

Posted on March 04, 2011
Union thugs unleash violence. ‘Every once in a while, you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary,' Rep. Michael Capuano (D., Mass.) told a February 22 union rally in Boston...

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