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House Conservative Group Asserts Relevance
Mar 16, 2009
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Since its creation as an internal conservative watchdog decades ago, the House Republican Study Committee has been transformed into a mainstream institution, with nearly two-thirds of the House GOP Conference claiming membership, including nearly all of the GOP’s elected leadership.
But the...
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King Op-ed: Over 200 Formerly Frozen Embryos Have Been Adopted by Families
Mar 16, 2009
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On August 16, 2008, at the Saddleback Civil Forum, Presidential candidate Barack Obama entered into a memorable exchange with Pastor Rick Warren.
Pastor Warren: Now, let’s deal with abortion; 40 million abortions since Roe v. Wade. As a pastor, I have to deal with this all of the time, all...
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More Than a Bad Day: Worries Grow That Barack Obama & Co. Have a Competence Problem
Mar 16, 2009
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Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on his face and asked, "Do you think they know what they're doing?"
The question caught me off guard because the man is a well-known Obama supporter. As...
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EDITORIAL: Obamanomics
Mar 16, 2009
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"Never waste a good crisis" has become the semi-official motto of the Obama administration.
We first heard it from the Machiavellian Rahm Emmanuel last November, when he said "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. … It's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do...
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Geithner Gets G-20 Earful About Need to Speed Reform
Mar 16, 2009
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U.S. officials came to the weekend's finance ministers' summit hoping to persuade other countries to embark on a fresh round of spending. They left under pressure to fix the weak U.S. banking sector.
After cordial handshakes and group photographs, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner returned...
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EDITORIAL: Destroying Housing Market More Taxes, Fewer Deductions Are Twin Killers
Mar 16, 2009
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A majority of economists are so dissatisfied with President Obama's handling of the economy that they gave him an “F” grade, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC survey finds. As the Journal noted, this dissatisfaction is across the political spectrum - not just with Republican economists. Treasury...
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Everyone Hates Ethanol
Mar 16, 2009
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These days, it's routine for businesses to fail, get rescued by the
government, and then continue to fail. But ethanol, which survives only
because of its iron lung of subsidies and mandates, is a special case.
Naturally, the industry is demanding even more government life support.
Corn...
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EDITORIAL: Adrift on Border Security
Mar 15, 2009
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Department of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano seems to be floundering on immigration and national security issues.
Not only is she continuing her quixotic campaign against Real ID, the main federal law safeguarding the integrity of drivers' licenses and keeping them out of the hands...
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Who Pays for Cap and Trade? -- II
Mar 13, 2009
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We don't mind an intellectual fight, and in a nearby letter, two economists at Resources for the Future take aim at our Monday editorial on how the costs of cap and trade will be distributed across regions and income groups. Dallas Burtraw and Richard Sweeney call it "a bait-and-switch argument."...
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Economic Recovery Means Sustainable, Long-Term Growth
Mar 13, 2009
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Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement in response to a document released by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. The document claims that the Democrats’ $787-billion spending package has “created or saved” jobs to “put Americans back to work.” While...
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