Don Bordreaux at Cafe Hayek says:
A headline in today’s Wall Street Journal reads “Obama Details Effort to Double Exports Over Five Years.”
Translation: “Obama Details Effort to Increase Corporate Welfare Over Five Years.”
Or more loosely paraphrased, “Obama panders to special interests.”
Great quote from George Will. He also tells us about a progressive president who once wanted to apply the same principle to his marriage.
Progressives are forever longing to replace the governance of people by the administration of things. Because they are entirely public-spirited, progressives volunteer to be the ...
Some of the letters in Wednesday's WSJ respond to an earlier article by saying the problem with schools isn't tenure. Several of them mention the parents. We've all heard these things before, but let's hear them out again:
More important determinants are parental support...
and
Your editorial really ...
Peter Grier, math wizard and Christian Science Monitor reporter, says the following in an article headlined, "John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?"
John Patrick Bedell, whom authorities identified as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting on Thursday, appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings.
If ...
The next time anyone suggests that we take seriously something that President Obama said, we should point to the media attack on Jim Bunning. The next time anyone suggests that we need higher taxes to pay for important social programs, or to bring down the deficit, or anything ...
Holman Jenkins points out how President Obama and the Democrats are desperately avoiding the one reform that might actually do something to bring down health care costs and make health care insurance available to more people. They are rushing to enact the worst possible system before people get it ...
Big quake question: Is nature out of control?
Which would be a more appropriate headline if such an accusation were made:
Congressman Winger says Obama's great-grandmother was Karl Marx's love child.
Obama's great-grandmother is said to be love child of Karl Mark.
Quiz questions:
If you wanted to give a bit of credence to the accusation, which of the above two would ...
I posted the following in response to the Battle Creek Enquirer article, "Stations pull ad critical of Schauer."
“It just goes to show powerful special interests will say and do anything to maintain the status quo that keeps them rich while Michigan families are struggling," Andrew Piatt, campaign manager for Schauer ...
One courageous Senator, Jim Bunning, wants to extend unemployment benefits and COBRA to unemployed workers, and at the same time help President Obama bring the budget deficit under control. But the rest of his colleagues are too stingy and short-sighted to do it. So far ...
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