November 5, 2010 Book asks: New Deal or Raw Deal? By Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist The Picayune Item PICAYUNE — Guess who said the following: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” Was it Sarah Palin? Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove? Not even […]
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NOVEMBER 13, 2010 With ‘parent trigger,’ families can forcibly change failing schools. By DAVID FEITH Debates about education these days tend to center on familiar terms like charter schools and merit pay. Now a new fault line is emerging: “parent trigger.” Like many radical ideas, parent trigger originated in California, as an innovation of a
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NOVEMBER 13, 2010 The world won’t follow slow-growth, weak-dollar America. Has there ever been a major economic summit where a U.S. President and his Treasury Secretary were as thoroughly rebuffed as they were at this week’s G-20 meeting in Seoul? We can’t think of one. President Obama failed to achieve any of his main goals
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NOVEMBER 12, 2010, 4:09 P.M. ET For now: Extend the Bush tax cuts, repeal ObamaCare, support free trade. After 2012: Enact a flat tax, stabilize prices, balance the budget, give politicians incentive pay. By ARTHUR LAFFER Since its cyclical zenith in December 2007, U.S. economic production has been on its worst trajectory since the Great
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November 11, 2010 By ROGER COHEN LONDON — A world without nuclear weapons sounds nice, but of course that was the world that brought us World War I and World War II. If you like the sound of that, the touchy-feely “Global Zero” bandwagon is probably for you. I’m an optimist in general but a
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RealClearPolitics November 11, 2010 A Preview of 2012 Redistricting By Sean Trende As bad as 2010 was for House Democrats, 2012 could be even worse. Republicans don’t have a lot of exposure, since most of their gains were in red territory. More importantly, Republicans will control more seats in redistricting than they have since the
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WALL STREET JOURNAL NOVEMBER 11, 2010 The 1099 Democrats The Democrats decoupled from business—and lost the election. By DANIEL HENNINGER Calvin Coolidge once said, “The chief business of the American people is business.” The Democrats just lost America because they forgot that. On second thought, you can’t forget what you never knew. The Democrats running
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The American Spectator The Obama Watch Stop the Obama Tax Hikes By Peter Ferrara on 11.10.10 @ 6:09AM Let us survey the wreckage of Obamanomics, which followed in detail the opposite of every policy of Reaganomics. Unemployment has been near 10% for over a year now, after reaching 9.7% in August 2009. The Bureau of
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On Climate Change California Dreaming: Missing America’s Wake-Up Call Larry Bell, 11.10.10, 11:25 AM ET What happened to the notion that “where California goes, so goes the nation”? The Nov. 2 midterm election results demonstrated something very different: The Golden State zagged, while most of the country zigged. That dynamic applied pretty much across the
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NOVEMBER 10, 2010 The GOP’s Racial Challenge Republicans can’t win in the future without more nonwhite votes. By ZOLTAN HAJNAL Lost in the GOP’s euphoria over its landslide midterm victory is the fact that the Republican Party has almost become a whites-only party. Its strategy may win seats now, but it will lose over the
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