Liberals’ Distrust of Local Government
by It seems as though whenever there’s a problem at a local or regional level there’s an uncontrollable urge to fix it with a national solution. …
Category: Politics
Convergence of Ideological Opposites
My father’s definition of the range of ideology is this: I believe personality definitions are spherical in nature and can be defined by spherical equations …
Dawn Johnsen: Another Lying Liar in Line for an Important Job with the Obama Administration
The National Review’s Andy McCarthy been absolutely brutal in refuting Dawn Johnsen’s testimony that the DOJ Office of Legal Council nominee gave to Senate Judiciary …
Obama’s Health Care Plan to be Mandatory?
Ezra Klein says that Barack Obama will ask Congress to include a mandatory participation clause when he spells out the broad strokes for his proposed …
Bankrupt Homeowners’ Apologist Rejects Ethics, Responsibility, Common Sense
Matthew Yglesias has his doubts about whether homeowners who default on their home loans bear any responsibility whatsoever for the financial mess they have caused. …
Indiana University: Press Favors Republicans (and Hell Freezes Over)
Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Erik Bucy, both associate professors in the Indiana University’s Department of Telecommunications say that Republicans were the beneficiaries of media bias …
Eager to Regulate, Some Economists Reject Reality
Nouriel Roubini, a professor at the Stern Business School at New York University, says that the current fiscal crisis was caused by the failure of …
More Congressional Censorship, Inadvertent This Time?
I recently wrote about public libraries planning to ban older books because of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act passed by Congress last year. The …
Lies, Damn Lies, and We’ll Force You to Listen to Them
More members of the Democratic Congress are revealing their desire to re-regulate the talk radio marketplace by breathing new life into the corpse of the …
Democrats Pass Spending Bill, Ignore Republicans
A sardonic congratulations must go out to Congressional Democrats who, after some years in minority exile, have made up for lost time by bringing home …