This Fiscal Stimulus Argument
It won’t come as a great shock to anyone that the current state of the financial markets shows that we’ve still quite a bit to learn about economics. While there were indeed those observers (some of them even ...
It won’t come as a great shock to anyone that the current state of the financial markets shows that we’ve still quite a bit to learn about economics. While there were indeed those observers (some of them even ...
As was evident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, it is deja vu, 1961, all over again. We have a young, cool, witty, personable president—and an adoring press corps. “I am Barack Obama,” the ...
Don't blame the politicians; America's doing this to ...
This week, Team Obama took their dog and pony show on the road. Treasury Secretary Geithner went to China, Fed Chairman Bernanke to Capitol Hill, and the President himself began a Mideast tour in Saudi Arabia. This ...
I interrupt my friendly criticism of Mr. LaTulippe’s article to bring you the breaking news: Pat Robertson Backs Giuliani’s Bid Robertson’s remarks on why he would be willing to endorse a man who stands ...
When it comes to right and wrong, let's throw out the labels "conservative" and "liberal". These terms have been denuded of meaning. Thanks to those pushy "neoconservatives" and their prominence in ...
The French ambassador to London who caused a furor about eight years ago when he referred to Israel as “that shitty little country,” was demoted to Algeria almost immediately. Although the ambassador said it at a ...
As the multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Wall Street insider Bernard Madoff unravels in the media spotlight, the nation is being presented with a rare opportunity to understand the true nature of many of our ...
The neocons have their own axe to grind -- make the Middle East safe for Greater Israel -- but the West does not necessarily follow an Eretz Israel agenda. Or should not, in any case. It is strange that people like Bush ...
NEW YORK-They found this place 400 years ago this year among the Indians in the marches, and no one’s looked back since. Some of the Dutch descendants are still around but you wouldn’t know it by reading the ...
This week I stumbled across an astounding blooper in a column by the usually informative Bob Novak about the "Abortion War's Newest Front." Novak was discussing a Kansas District Judge, James E. Vano, who had ...
Undeniably, a powerful tide is running for the Democratic Party, with one week left to Election Day. Bush’s approval rating is 27 percent, just above Richard Nixon’s Watergate nadir and almost down to ...
The National Health Service is worshipped by the Brits, not least those who don’t have to queue up to use it. But when you subject it to scrutiny, it soon reveals itself to be taking the most astonishing ...
Do we deduce, then, that President Obama has been chuckling over copies of his enemies' tax ...
When an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad recently, pundits everywhere had fun replaying the footage, commenting on the president’s quick reflexes and ...
The most authentic human being I have ever known was the father of a classmate in elementary school. That classmate has remained a friend to this day. His father was a handicapper of thoroughbreds, an aficionado of ...
We get a lot of press releases at Chronicles, and most of them simply go in the electronic equivalent of the round file. Once in a while, however, they’re at least good for a laugh. For instance, is this ...
The Crash of 2008, which is now wiping out trillions of dollars of our people’s wealth, is, like the Crash of 1929, likely to mark the end of one era and the onset of another. The new era will see a more sober and ...
Having been listening to happy talk for more than a week about the "Palin factor," courtesy of all my local friends and the commentaries of Pat Buchanan, and having felt at least for a few minutes some of the same ...
As we entered the fifth day of 24/7 Benazir Bhutto coverage on cable news, it started to dawn on me that the MSM imagined that they were reporting on some kind of grand tragedy " the democratic hope for Pakistan, struck ...
For decades, before a heedless congregation, some of us have preached the old Hamiltonian gospel. Great nations do not have trade partners. They have trade competitors and rivals. Trade surpluses are superior to trade ...
It is rather late in the day, granted, but perhaps we can learn something from the track record of the British, especially from their mistakes. The British went everywhere, it seems, for various reasons, some good some bad, ...
Capitalism and racism go together? I hear it all the time. "Racism is intricately linked to capitalism," says famous Marxist Angela Davis. "It's a mistake to assume that we can combat racism by leaving capitalism in ...
The term “financial security” is usually used to describe economic well being. The term “national security” is used to describe foreign policy or domestic protection. But what if actions taken in the ...
