Americans are losing trust in government by Glenn Harlan Reynolds in USA Today February 11, 2013 Excerpt: A government limited to relatively few things — visible things, obviously relevant to the common good — can probably do those things well. As
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Dan Greenfield write in his blog Sultan Knish The Unverifiable World. Excerpts: The proliferation of bad faith experts, experts for hire and amateur experts means that there is more bad science than there is good science, more wrong ideas than
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Richard Vedder writes in the Wall Street Journal The Wages of Unemploymewnt, 1/15/12. Excerpts: Compare 2010 with October 2012, the last month for which food-stamp data have been reported. The unemployment rate fell to 7.8% from 9.6%, and real GDP
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Whatever the state of inequality of incomes, it is dwarfed by the inequality of contributions to human advancement. Robert Heinlein wrote, “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances that permit this norm to be exceeded- here and
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Thomas Fleming writes in the Wall Street Journal, A Jersey Lesson in Voter Fraud, My grandmother died there in 1940. She voted Democratic for the next 10 years. Excerpt: I have to laugh when I hear current-day Democrats not only lobbying
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Rich Karlgaard puts the Dow rally into perspective in the Wall Street Journal, 2/5/13. Excerpt from The Stock Rally That Isn’t; (may require a paid subscription to read online) In December 1974, the S&P 500 hit a low of 67, having
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Alan Dershowitz writes in The Jerusalem Post The death of a liberal Israel lover, 2/4/13, thoughts on Ed Koch and the changing politics of Israel supporters. Excerpts: When Israel was established in 1948, it had the enthusiastic backing of the
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The Dow has broken through 14,000 for the first time since 2007. Yet unemployment is still high and has recently gone higher. The work force participation rate is the lowest it has been since the 1980’s and our prime working
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The January 2013 issue of Commentary asked 53 writers and conservative leaders What is the Future of Conservatism? This is part of the response from Linda Chavez, Movements cannot sustain themselves without appealing leaders and coherent, compelling ideas–and at the moment American conservatism is deficient in
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Perhaps the Tent is Too Big
The January 2013 issue of Commentary asked 53 writers and conservative leaders What is the Future of Conservatism? This is part of the response from Linda Chavez, Movements cannot sustain themselves without appealing leaders and coherent, compelling ideas–and at the moment American conservatism is deficient in