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How the Plaintiffs Bar Bought the Senate
James Copland Wall Street Journal, 02-09-10
The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to permit independent campaign expenditures by corporations has led to a good
deal of hysteria about money and influence in politics.
Broader Sales Taxes Can Be a Good Thing
Josh Barro RealClearMarkets.com, 02-09-10
The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to permit independent campaign expenditures by corporations has led to a good
deal of hysteria about money and influence in politics.
Pat Moynihan's Tax Lessons for the States
E.J. McMahon Wall Street Journal, 02-06-10
The late Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York used to obsess over the flow of funds between the federal government and the states.
Political Justice Returns
Guy Sorman South China Morning Post, 02-06-10 (Subscription only)
In democracies, justice is supposed to be independent. Some prosecutors and investigating magistrates, however, conveniently forget this.
NY Taxes: Headed for a New High
E.J. McMahon & Josh Barro New York Post, 02-04-10 (This article is adapted from the
Winter issue of City Journal)
Advocates of the misnamed "millionaire's tax" enacted in New York state last year claimed that it would restore "fairness" to a tax code that favored the rich.
The Quiet Energy Revolution
Max Schulz The American, 02-04-10 (This article is also linked on RealClearMarkets.com, 02-04-10)
The 20th century was the century of oil. Wars were fought over it, and the outcomes of the century’s biggest conflicts hinged on the stuff.
Commercial Banks' 'Safety Net'
Nicole Gelinas NRO's The Corner, 02-03-10
In pushing "the Volcker rule," the Obama administration has made a dismaying decision: to entrench further large commercial banks' "too big to fail" status
in the eyes of the markets.
Job Creation vs. Ideology
Diana Furchtgott-Roth RealClearMarkets.com, 02-04-10
Nothing demonstrates the hollow nature of President Obama's promise "to do what it takes to create jobs," as he said at the White House, than the
energy policy in the proposed 2011 Budget he sent to Congress.
GOP: Read Your Massachusetts Memo
David Gratzer Townhall.com, 02-03-10
After Massachusetts decidedly elected Scott Brown, there is a temptation for Republicans to hear the message they want to hear, rather than the message
that Bay State voters actually sent.
Critical Diagnosis
Tomas Philipson and Paul Howard Forbes.com, 02-02-10
Since President Nixon first launched America's war on cancer in 1971, progress against the disease has seemed painfully slow at times.
Obama's Unilateral Disarmament
Stephanie Hessler Townhall.com, 02-02-10
While al Qaeda strives to increase its ability to attack the United States, the Obama administration is voluntarily relinquishing the tools Congress provided to fight terrorists.
Obama's education rhetoric doesn't come close to reality
Jay P. Greene Washington Examiner, 02-03-10 (This article is adapted from City Journal Online, 02-03-10)
In a major address last March, President Obama declared that his administration would "use only one test when deciding what ideas to support with your precious tax dollars: It's not whether an idea is liberal or conservative, but whether it works."
Obama Giveth and Obama Taketh Away
Josh Barro RealClearMarkets.com, 02-02-10
In his State of the Union, President Obama mentioned "small business" 14 times.
The Galbraith Revival
Theodore Dalrymple City Journal, Winter 2010 (this article is linked on RealClearPolitics.com and RealClearMarkets.com, 02-02-2010)
A Canadian university recently asked me to deliver its annual John Kenneth Galbraith Lecture, named for the economist who for much of my youth was the
most famous member of his profession in the world.
How the Universities Got This Way
Peter D. Salins MindingTheCampus.com, 02-02-10
Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University is a short, provocative book that raises many more questions
than it answers.
Is It Just Politics?
Max Schulz National Review Online, 01-28-10
Reciting his boilerplate clean-energy language in the State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Obama managed to say one thing that
stood out. He called for “building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.”
Reengineering the Family
Heather Mac Donald National Review Online, 02-01-10
An image from a TV ad for gay marriage, reproduced in the January 18 New Yorker, provides a Rorschach test for reactions to America’s ongoing
revolution in family structure.
The History of Zinn
Ron Radosh New York Post, 01-30-10 (This article is an adaptation from MindingTheCampus.com)
Howard Zinn's death yesterday affords us the opportunity to evaluate the remarkable influence he has had on the American public's understanding
of our nation's past.
If Jobs Are Job One: First, Do No Harm
Josh Barro Investor's Business Daily, 01-29-10 (This article is also linked on RealClearMarkets.com,
01-29-10)
In Wednesday's State of the Union address, President Obama declared that "jobs must be our No. 1 focus in 2010."
Mike's Risky Path
Nicole Gelinas New York Post, 01-29-10
In announcing his proposed $66.5 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts in July, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday got the destination right
-- but he's charting a long and dangerous path to get there.
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