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Democrats say the cap-and-trade bill passed by the House last week will accelerate the transition to an energy-efficient economy. Loads of new “green” jobs will be created in the process.
In a recent letter to The Star, a writer couldn’t understand why auto workers were blamed for the car companies’ problems. Workers don’t design cars, he wrote. They don’t set prices or decide where cars are made. The key decisions are made by top management.
With great fanfare, President Barack Obama recently announced plans for a national high-speed rail network. This generated a lot of excitement among rail buffs, but on closer examination the plan is mostly puffery.
My question was simple: “Can we win in Afghanistan?” But that only prompted another question: “How do you define victory?”
A visit to a quiet block on Eighth Street, immediately west of Broadway, provides a clue to what’s missing from the Power & Light District.
In a recent interview, New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg observed that a Republican comeback might come sooner than many expect.
President Barack Obama’s “first 100 days” draws to a close Wednesday — a traditional moment for evaluating a new administration.
What I found most amusing about last week’s tea party protests was the palpable defensiveness of many Democrats and lefties in general.
Last week in Prague, President Barack Obama said he would lead an effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
How did things get this crazy? You turn on the news and the headline is something like “President fires CEO,” and a blogger points out that’s about as expected as “Pope fires missile.”
President Obama is a man in a hurry. He knows that time is not on his side. He will never be as powerful as he is now, and his opposition — the leaderless GOP — will never be as weak.
President Obama says international investors should have “absolute confidence” in the safety of U.S. government debt. Uh-oh. It’s scary when this subject even comes up.
The union card-check bill was introduced in Congress last week, and backers are making another big push in a bid to win passage. The measure, still bearing the grossly misleading title “Employee Free Choice Act,” passed the House in 2007 and failed in the Senate. Here’s hoping it dies again.
A key measure of the nation’s economic health is its ability to attract capital, not only the financial kind, but capital of the human sort.
Since the beginning of the year, the stock market has fallen about 20 percent — about half that drop coming since the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
The liberal blogger Mickey Kaus once thought he was paranoid for predicting that the Democrats, once in power, would immediately try to undermine welfare reform.
There’s no sense trying to defend last year’s Wall Street bonus package. Bonuses are supposed to be paid for performance, and last year was a financial disaster. Yet the 2008 payout — $18.4 billion — was the sixth largest ever.
President-elect Barack Obama said recently that overhauling Social Security and Medicare would be central to his effort to curb federal spending.
Barack Obama’s first test came pretty quickly. But we still don’t know how he will respond.
Kansas City is preparing a dubious New Year’s gift for area motorists, to be delivered soon: The city’s first red-light cameras.
The year gone by has been pretty awful, and many say the prospects for 2009 aren’t much better. The governor of the Bank of Spain, to cite one example, recently declared that the entire world economy was facing a financial meltdown.
The Detroit carmakers have economically run aground because their business model is broken. The most effective way to fix it is not through a Washington bailout, but through reorganization under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code.
Congress is getting ready to serve up a massive stimulus package — possibly in the neighborhood of $700 billion. Get ready for a giant Capitol Hill feeding frenzy — the mother of all earmark orgies.
The independent correspondent Michael Yon was in Baghdad late last week. He couldn’t believe the change.
The election of Barack Obama marks a historic moment, one in which all Americans can take pride. It wasn’t a landslide victory, but it was decisive.
Recently Canada and the European Union agreed to begin talks on a free-trade agreement. You didn’t hear much about that over the din of the presidential campaign. But if Barack Obama wins, this pattern — other countries forging commercial agreements that leave us out — is likely to repeat.
For decades, workers’ decisions on whether to unionize have been expressed in secret-ballot elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. At stake in the presidential campaign is whether to do away with that process — by passing a misnamed bill called the Employee Free Choice Act.
As always in presidential elections, we face a choice next month between two imperfect human beings, John McCain and Barack Obama. To me, McCain is the only reasonable choice.
A few weeks ago, thanks to his call for more domestic drilling to ease the energy shortage, John McCain was enjoying a slight lead in the polls. Now his fortunes are fading steadily, along with the market indexes.
When Congress wades into the financial crisis next year, lawmakers should be very humble. They have the power to make things worse as well as better. If the mood on Capitol Hill is dominated by those keen to find scapegoats, watch out.
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