Why Corporate America Will Bounce Back in 2011
2010 saw many high-profile corporate bankruptcies. But many of those corporate failures could lead to good economic news in 2011. Borders Books, the once-demonized slayer of independent booksellers, appears headed for bankruptcy court: its stock trades at only a little more than a dollar a …Was the Blizzard Christie's Katrina?
Did NJ Governor Chris Christie’s vacation during the recent Northeast blizzard clean-up seriously harm his political future? New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s vacation during the recent Northeast blizzard has garnered much national media attention. But did his decision not to return to directly …The Health Care Revolution, 2011 Edition
The new Congress will stage an early vote on outright repeal of the Democrats' healthcare reform. After that vote fails though, the GOP's real work begins. Kaiser Family Foundation offers a helpful timeline of the portions of the federal healthcare law that go into effect in 2011. Among them: …Taxing Our Way to a Green America
Democrats are committed to advancing the green agenda through regulation. But there's a better way that protects freedom... and raises money. The green agenda has imposed upon us the elimination of Thomas Edison’s incandescent bulb -- an invention so iconic that cartoonists use it as a symbol of a …The Prowl: When New Year's Goes Wrong
This year for New Year's Eve, I'm merely hoping that I can ring in 2011 without suffering any physical injury or memory lapse. Last year on New Year's Day, I woke up with a profound hangover and a patchy memory of the night before. The events of the night before were recapped for me over brunch …Can I Disinvite Friends from a New Year's Bash?
Socializing in general is a never-ending festival of “hurt feelings and awkwardness.” Why should New Year’s Eve be any different? Writing in the Globe and Mail , David Eddie hears from a reader wondering if they can disinvite their friends from a New Year's Eve party. The reader writes: …Were the Founders Libertarians?
UPDATED: Asking if the Founders Fathers were libertarians is as meaningful as asking whether the Founders would have preferred Macs or PCs. Let me toss in my 5 cents worth on the question of whether the Founders were "libertarians." This seems to me a question approximately as meaningful …Frum: No Labels Can Fight Washington Gridlock
On C-SPAN's Washington Journal , David Frum and William Galston discuss how No Labels could be the solution for D.C. gridlock. This morning on C-SPAN's Washington Journal , David Frum and William Galston discussed the goals of "No Labels" and explained how the new movement could be the solution …Putin Comes Clean on Katyn
Vladimir Putin has finally acknowledged Russia's responsibility for one of WWII’s worst massacres: the execution of 20,000 Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. Vladimir Putin, the real ruler of post-Soviet Russia, has acknowledged his country’s responsibility for one of WWII’s horrendous …Obama's Eagles Shout-Out
Does Obama really think Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, hired convicted felon Mike Vick because of a commitment to social justice? Could Obama really think that Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles, hired convicted felon Mike Vick because of his commitment to …2010's Most Overblown News Stories
2010 saw many events that history will regard as only moderately important receive far more media coverage than they deserved. Remember when an unknown pastor in Florida planned to burn a bunch of Qurans? Or when that television host managed to get a bunch of people to hang out on the Washington …
How Chavez Lines His Pockets
Hugo Chavez isn't redistributing wealth from rich to poor, but rather from a business elite to a political elite, and from non-relatives to his own family. This New York Times dispatch from Venezuela is fine so far as it goes, but it risks leaving behind a very wrong impression. The idyll …Alfred Kahn RIP
As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, economist Alfred Kahn helped turn flying from a luxury for the few to a basic commodity for the many. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the 1970s, the economist Alfred Kahn persuaded President Carter and a Democratic Congress to deregulate …The Founders Were No Libertarians
Christopher Beam's new article on libertarianism makes one key mistake: the Founders weren't libertarian. In fact, they saw first-hand the failure of such ideas. Christopher Beam has written a thought provoking, well-argued piece in a mainstream liberal magazine on libertarians. Libertarians, …If Sarah Palin Tells You Anything...
Check it. And then check it again. Case in point: Palin's latest explanation for how she first used the word "refudiate." Check it. Then check it again. Taegan Goddard links to a New York Daily News item catching another of these -- shall we call them self-flattering improvements of the record …Immigration as International Development
A new study showing the income gains for international migrants is spurring debate over a guestworker program. You may hear more about this study in the days ahead. It will add velocity to the recurring proposal from some immigration reformers that the U.S. adopt a guestworker program. …