December 3, 2008
The Las Vegas Sun (they have newspapers in Vegas???) reports that the incoming Obama administration may be backing quietly away from its promise to sign “card check” legislation that would revoke workers’ rights to have a secret ballot before the formation of a union and allow the ...
go to article »November 26, 2008
James Joyner throws down the gauntlet to conservative intellectuals, arguing that conservatives lack ideas with regards to at least two critical issues: global warming and income inequality. I would argue that while Joyner’s challenge to conservatives is provocative, it is fundamentally based...
go to article »November 20, 2008
Resplendent in their private jets, Detroit’s auto executives have been pleading to Congress for a piece of the bailout mania. Having seen Wall Street’s success in extracting billions of dollars from Washington to limit the economic damage from the collapse of the housing and financial ...
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Since the contested 2000 election sent many elements of the left off the emotional deep end, the term “derangement syndrome” has entered the political lexicon to describe those that seem to lose control of their logical faculties when evaluating any story, analysis, or even rumor about t...
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In what is doubtless a move to preempt moves by the new Obama administration to enact some form of national health care, a consortium of health care insurers have kindly offered to accept all applications for health care coverage. The price of this largess would be a Congressional mandate requirin...
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In a secret ballot vote, the House Democratic caucus has removed the Michigan Rep. John Dingell from his chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce panel in favor of California Rep. Henry Waxman. The change may presage a shift in the House in favor of much more purist and extreme leftist views on a r...
go to article »November 16, 2008
During this election season, conservatives have been very critical of the media, claiming that it was “in the tank” for Obama. Additionally, those of all ideological stripes have been frustrated by the lack of substance in media coverage — attention lavished on the horse race but ...
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Conservative critics of President-elect Barack Obama’s incoming administration have focused their initial lens on the change.gov web site. Some have characterized it as a potentially deceptive fund-raising scheme, while others have suggested that it may indicate that the Bush administration &...
go to article »October 24, 2008
Even though a reprise of the Great Depression increasingly appears to be off the table as a result of dramatic government intervention in the financial markets, it is likely that the hard economic times that now loom will fundamentally restructure the global economy — and by extension, the glo...
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In the closing days of the 2008 election season, it has become settled media narrative that John McCain has been running a relentlessly negative campaign. The left side of the blogosphere is at full howl about how McCain’s campaign is supposedly little more than a den of racist haters. The...
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