From Jonah Goldberg in Townhall, Jonathan Gruber Should’ve Been Time’s Person of the Year For similar reasons, I think Time missed an opportunity in not putting Gruber on the cover. Tea partiers and Wall Street occupiers disagree on a great
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From Erick Erickson in Townhall, The Continued Farce: excerpt: In the United States today, more and more publications refuse letters to the editor from skeptics of global warming. As the world stays in this plateau of no warming, which we
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from Obama’s Scandal Playbook by Katie Pavlich in Townhall: Summary: Play Dumb The president and his political appointees knew nothing about what happened while it was happening and only learned about (insert scandal here) for the first time in the
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John Stossel writes in Townhall, The War on Women: Insurance companies still charge men more for car and life insurance. A survey of car insurance companies found that the cheapest policy for a woman cost 39 percent less than for a man.
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John Goodman from Townhall writes A Personal Note on Inequality: First, I made a rough calculation that between 5% and 10% of our class was earning about half the class income. Obviously, my calculation was far from precise, but I
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from Jeff Jacoby in Townhall, Income Gap? Not Many are Obsessed Excerpts: How many shared Obama’s view that the gap between rich and poor is the issue that should concern us most? Four percent. Obsessing over other people’s riches isn’t
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From Derek Hunter in Townhall, Detroit: My City Was Gone Excerpt: Mayor Young, first elected in 1974, was the first black mayor of Detroit. He entered office with all the promise that could bring to a city nearly 50 percent
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Victor Davis Hanson writes America’s Big Fat Advantage in Townhall (online) 4/21/13 Excerpts: The mixture of consumer capitalism and constitutionally protected free speech — and all sorts of races, religions and ethnicities — sometimes means that America can be a
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Jonah Goldberg writes in Townhall, Time to Grow Up, GOP, 1/16/13. Excerpt: The good is obvious. The ill is less understood. For starters, the movement has an unhealthy share of hucksters eager to make money from stirring rage, paranoia and
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A sampling from Explaining Conservative Economics in 25 Quotes by John Hawkins in Townhall 8/7/2012: “A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.” — F.A. Hayek “Either immediately or ultimately every
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“Suppose I hire you to repair my computer. The job is worth $200 to me and doing the job is worth $200 to you. The transaction will occur because we have a meeting of the mind. Now suppose there’s the
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From Townhall, Random Thoughts by Thomas Sowell Excerpts: Whenever you hear people talking about “a living Constitution,” almost invariably they are people who are in the process of slowly killing it by “interpreting” its restrictions on government out of existence.
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“A thousand restaurants close every month. They re-open, and that’s good for America. Nobody’s rescuing them. They employ people, too. If we let them go bankrupt, the factories don’t go away, the creative people don’t go away. They get employed
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Few economic policies demonstrate the difference between intent and outcome more than the minimum wage. Those who push for higher minimum wages in the cause of social justice refuse to accept the outcome that the cost is often shown in
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Jonah Goldberg writes Symptoms of a Sick Culture in Townhall, 7/6/12. Excerpts: Two days before the Fourth of July, Lopez was fired for helping rescue a man drowning 1,500 feet outside of his designated zone. “It was a long run,
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The “People United” Go Down in Flames by Walter Russell Mead in The American Interest Excerpt: What happened in Wisconsin last night wasn’t, as a distraught young voter told CNN in the video above, the death of democracy in America. But
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John Hawkins lists The 25 Best Quotes from Thomas Sowell in Townhall.com, 4/20/12 Here are my favorites within his list: “There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.” “Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions — and
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Larry Kudlow writes King Dollar Will Cut Oil Prices in Townhall. While he writes about higher oil prices actaully being a mere reflection of a weaker dollar, he also notes how we are falling prey to bad information that is both believed
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Larry Kudlow writes King Dollar Will Cut Oil Prices in Townhall. Excerpts: A stronger dollar is key. The Joint Economic Committee just put out a study showing that a 10 to 15 percent appreciation of the greenback to pre-recession levels
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Unemployment remains stubbornly high and new company startups remain stubbornly low. New regulations and laws, whose only clarity seems to be that it will burden business and hiring in many ways yet unseen, combined with a record deficit and fear
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