by Henry Oliner | Sep 30, 2014 | Politics
Kevin Williamson writes The Unmanageable Man in The National Review. Excerpt: The responsibility of conservatives is to draw ever nearer to reality. And one unpleasant aspect of our current reality is that the pain the Left is feeling as its planning ambitions run up...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 30, 2014 | Economy, Politics
Joel Kotkin writes Choosing Fortune Over Freedom Excerpts: This is not surprising, given the rapid progress that country has made in recent years. China has expanded its share of global gross domestic product from 2 percent in 1995 to 12 percent in 2012. Its economic...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 30, 2014 | Politics
Bret Stephens writes in The Wall Street Journal, Obama Needs to Call Bush Excerpts: Maybe President Obama also calls Mr. Bush every now and then, just to talk, and one day we’ll find out about it. But I suspect not. No president has so completely built his...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 30, 2014 | Economics, Uncategorized
Economist Mark Perry writes in Carpe Diem When we consider all US CEOs and all US workers, the ‘CEO-to-worker pay ratio’ falls from 331:1 to below 4:1 Excerpts: The AFL-CIO is comparing: a) the average salary of a small sample (350) of the highest paid US CEOs, out of...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
Bret Stephens writes The Meltdown in the September Commentary. Excerpts: If anything, the international situation Obama faced when he assumed the presidency was, in many respects, relatively auspicious. Despite the financial crisis and the recession that followed,...
