Dave Lister’s piece in today’s Oregonian describes Rob Cornilles as a pragmatic moderate with a serious chance of becoming the first Republican elected in Oregon’s 1st District in decades. In a relatively affluent district dependent on a good business climate, Cornilles’ message may be just what is needed in response to the pummeling of the [...]
BY MICHAEL BARONE, WASHINGTON EXAMINER 09/28/11 – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels did not attract as large a crowd when he spoke at American Enterprise Institute (where I am a resident fellow) earlier this week as he did when several months ago, before he disappointed admirers by announcing that he wouldn’t run for president. I saw [...]
Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin delivered a speech yesterday at the Hoover Institution on what is needed to replace ObamaCare if and when it is repealed. Once again, Ryan is leading the way with serious thinking and sound proposals to fix what ails the nation. Even if you disagree with him, you have to take [...]
With all the talk about the rich not paying their fair share, this short history of the federal income tax is worth a read. It appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal.
“Hand-wringing isn’t the answer,” writes Senator Ted Ferrioli in today’s Oregonian. Unemployment is high in Oregon. It is even higher where Senator Ferrioli comes from. He doesn’t discount the future possibilities of green energy, but he argues that Oregon has the same natural advantages it has always had, and should put those advantages to [...]
There is much debate and litigation over the federal government’s expanding role in health care and health insurance. Meanwhile, American liberties are being quietly eroded by the steady expansion of federal criminal law — an area traditionally of primary concern to the states. Not only have the number of federal criminal laws grown dramatically in [...]
“If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew [whoops] janitor . . . “ Had a Republican candidate for President said it, there would be finger pointing and deep psycho-babble from commentators on the left. But once again, President Obama gets a pass. Maybe he is just preoccupied with the [...]
AND HIS MEAN GREEN WEALTH-WASTING MACHINE – The $535 million loan finally went through on September 2, 2009, just two days before the scheduled groundbreaking for the new plant. Around this same time Solyndra attracted another $219 million from private investors. This, despite the fact that Solyndra had already lost $558 million in its five-year [...]
Maine Senator Susan Collins calls for a one year moratorium on new regulation. In an editorial about regulation run-amok at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Wall Street Journal editorial board provides evidence of the urgency of enacting Senator Collin’s proposed moratorium.
NW Free Press contributor Mark Ellis takes author Joe McGinness to the mat for his new book The Rogue, about Sarah Palin. Ellis’s advice: “Don’t put one thin dime into the pockets of this creepazoid, who forced Todd and Sarah to erect a higher fence around their property to keep his prying eyes off private [...]
Writing in The Washington Examiner, Michael Barone, the dean of American political analysis, argues that Mitt Romney won the latest Republican presidential debate last night. But Marc Thiessen contends, in today’s Washington Post, that a Romney gaffe could cost him dearly. Thiessen envisions Romney being repeatedly quoted in future TV ads saying “there are a [...]
Terry Anderson , executive director of the Property and Environment Research Center, proposes a Green Tea Party. Green tea is supposed to be good for you, and so would be the policies promoted by the Green Tea Party — and good for the environment. Anderson writes about the Green Tea Party in the Wall Street [...]
Bret Stephens writes in today’s Wall Street Journal that “[w]hen the history of the rise and fall of postwar Western Europe is someday written, it will come in three volumes. Title them “Hard Facts,” “Convenient Fictions” and—the volume still being written—”Fraud.”
New York Times columnist David Brooks confesses that he has been, and maybe still is, an Obama sap. He keeps believing that the President really means what he says and will deliver on what he promises.
Seth Lipsky, author of The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide, suggests in today’s Wall Street Journal that the Republican candidates devote one of their debates to the meaning of the Constitution. It’s a great idea, and then President Obama and the Republican nominee should do the same.
Wall Street Journal: Review & Outlook comments on Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever’s resignation from the American Physical Societyi on the heels of Nobel Laureate Al Gore’s recent suggestion that climate change science is “high school physics.”
A couple of days ago we posted David Brooks’ description of the planning fallacy. Writing in the Washington Post about the same time, George Will described the results of such planning for job creation and economic restoration. In case you missed it, here it is.
In the Spring of 2010 I speculated with friends about the possibility that Barack Obama would decide not to run for reelection in 2012. As unlikely as it then seemed, my rationale for the possibility (not a prediction—that, so far in advance of an election, would be close to fantasy) was the following: (1) The [...]
