Hail to the Inequality President!
Elected by the poor, he's rewarded the unproductive rich, and how!
View ArticleWall Street Messes Up the EPA's Sandbox
The ethanol mandate creates new opportunities for regulatory hamfistedness and Democrat-N.Y. Times collusion.
View ArticleHow the Dollar Could Eventually Collapse
Two events last week were a reminder, as if any were still needed.
View ArticleThe EPA Coal Tour
A "listening tour" that is bypassing coal-producing and -consuming areas.
View ArticleWashington's Chuckleheads
In 1995 I spent a month in Georgia with Newt Gingrich to help him write his book, To Renew America, shortly after he had been elected Speaker of the House. At the time Newt was promoting the idea that...
View ArticleKennedy’s Legacy
I must admit I was getting sick of all the Kennedy nostalgia before it even started. Clintons and Obamas huddled around the eternal flame trying to claim the cult of the Kennedys. And then National...
View ArticleA Marxian Interpretation of Contemporary America
Karl Marx got lost in dreams of leading a proletarian revolution that would make him a hero to the working class. It’s an old fantasy of the intelligentsia — the wise and articulate leader of the...
View ArticleMarriage Week: There’s Lots to Celebrate
This week Americans honor National Marriage Week, coinciding with Valentine’s Day, the international holiday for lovers. There’ll be lots to celebrate — romance, fidelity, tying the knot and the...
View ArticleHas America Become a Class Society?
Americans have always assumed that there was a “one-for-all-and-all-for-one” aspect to our country, but watching Karen Moreau’s “The Empire State Divide,” it’s hard to argue that we haven’t become...
View ArticleThe Roots of Russia’s Revanchism — Energy
On Wednesday, the New York Timespublished a very nice account of a speech President Vladimir Putin gave to a group of the Russian elite in the Grand Kremlin Palace. Reported by on-the-scene...
View ArticleWashington’s Thriving Grand Inquisitors
I’ve reading about Italy and the Papacy during the Renaissance lately and can’t help but be struck by the similarities to today’s Washington, D.C.
View ArticleThe School of Belle Knox
Today’s moral lesson involves the 18-year-old Duke University freshman who has revealed that she is moonlighting in pornography movies to pay her outsized $60,000-a-year tuition at Duke.Miriam Weeks,...
View ArticleThe Lifesaving Dr. Heimlich
Heimlich’s Maneuvers: My Seventy Years of Lifesaving InnovationBy Henry J. Heimlich(Prometheus Books, 253 pages, $19.95)
View ArticleBULLETIN: U.S. Navy Invents Perpetual Motion Machine
You have to wonder how these things get started. Or maybe you don’t. The world is always filled with fantasies and wishful thinking. Newspapers and the Internet just make them circulate a little faster.
View ArticlePresident Obama Celebrates the 1 Percent
Several years ago, when energy issues first starting engaging the public, the New Yorker ran a cartoon showing an upscale couple sitting in a fancy restaurant. The wife leans across the table and says...
View ArticleHurricane Carter's Comeback
No fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any courtroom of the United States, than according to the rules of common law.—The Bill of Rights, Amendment VIIOn June 17, 1966, at two in the...
View ArticleHurricane Carter Exonerated Again… and Again
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died at the age of 76 two weeks ago and immediately the encomiums began again — “wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit,” “could have been champion,” “victim of racial...
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