Andrew Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and the author of, most recently, Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College. Drawing rave reviews from The New York Times and The Wall Street
So Al Gore has come around on the policy cancer that is ethanol, even as Newt Gingrich decides that telling the truth on this would be politically inconvenient. Yet the great strategist Mr. Gingrich does not see that support for
One of the leading experts on Saudi Arabia poured cold water on the idea of the Arab uprisings spreading to the Kingdom at a speech Thursday, and finished his presentation with a bizarre rant against the U.S.-Saudi relationship and the
If it wasn’t clear enough with the auto bailouts, the health care battle, the effort to effectively eliminate secret-ballot elections on unionization, as well as the provocatively pro-union actions of the agencies governing labor-management relations (the NLRB and NMB), the
If I tried to do at my job what Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers did at theirs, I’d be fired. Yet fourteen Democratic Senators from Wisconsin still have their jobs, even though they aren’t performing them and are being paid. This has
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets030411.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the reality of inflation vs the Fed rate, the latest unemployment numbers
Today, the national flight attendants’ union released its latest attack on Delta airlines, filing a lawsuit on behalf of a group of disgruntled former Northwest Airlines flight attendants now working for Delta after the two airlines merged. The Association of
From Wisconsin State Journal: Senate Republicans Thursday ordered the arrest of their 14 Democratic colleagues, who fled the state two weeks ago to avoid a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial budget repair bill. It’s unclear whether the resolution to
Some say the world will end in fire and some say in ice. But in Washington, a lot of people say it will end if we don’t continually raise the debt ceiling. The statutory debt limit, or debt ceiling, represents
The wave of change now sweeping the Middle East should give pause to those who argue that if only Israel would recognize a Palestinian state, there would be peace, writes James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal. “In the past
The fount of business knowledge that is Forbes.com ran a bit dry this weekend when it published a blog by one Rick Ungar in which he made the case that taxpayers don’t actually fund public employee pensions in Wisconsin. Just
Charles Koch in today’s Wall Street Journal: Years of tremendous overspending by federal, state and local governments have brought us face-to-face with an economic crisis. Federal spending will total at least $3.8 trillion this year–double what it was 10 years
From The Wall Street Journal: A report from the nonpartisan GAO, to be released Tuesday, compiles a list of redundant and potentially ineffective federal programs, and it could serve as a template for lawmakers in both parties as they move
With what’s happening today in Wisconsin we’re hearing a lot about civil rights and workers rights and all those buzz words the Left uses to make something wicked sound noble. The idea that collective bargaining is some kind of right
As government employee unions continue to rally across the country in support of the Wisconsin protesters, they are becoming completely unhinged. (Being surrounded by hygienically-challenged individuals who continuously shout mind-numbing slogans will do that.) All the protests are understandable. The
In the wake of the turmoil in the Mideast, stock prices in peripheral stock markets have continued to plunge, often by several percentage points in a day. Recent stock market plunges The Cairo stock exchange, which has been shut down
“We know way too much about Bill Clinton,” and that’s why–as charismatic as he may be–the former president just isn’t glamorous. So says Virginia Postrel, Editor-in-chief of DeepGlamour.net and columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Postrel, formerly the editor of
The U.S. government has expressed some concern about Libya’s chemical weapon supplies and dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s irrationality, as protesters march on the Libyan capital of Tripoli. The demonstrators claim to be acting to preempt any Gaddafi’s retaliation, in light of
Wisconsin. Ohio. Michigan. New Jersey. New York. Budget-battle showdowns are coming soon to a statehouse near you. Thousands of angry school teachers, union members, and their sympathizers have descended on capitals to fight against reducing pay and benefits for public
—– Via Elizabeth Snead at The Dish Rag, who got the video, story and transcript: “Go home, get online and find out the facts about climate change. And then the next time you hear some crap on talk radio or
Since Dan Friedman asked that question here on Big Peace, other commentators are further questioning why, on the one hand, the White House finally (after confidence-shattering vacillation) decided to come down hard on, and ostentatiously demanded basic reform from, our
On Tuesday, attackers armed with rifles killed 18 people in a village just outside of Jos, in central Nigeria. The attackers are believed to be members of the mostly Muslim Fulani ethnic group, according to Reuters. Nigeria, showing major historic
Assuming among those who have followed the events in the Middle East know the likelihood of all this ending badly is probably even money at this point. Islamism is very much a part of the populace. It is organic with
—– That’s not very pretty. Any word from the ASPCA? Maybe next week, Jon Stewart can melt a penguin in the Sahara for big chuckles. Weekly Standard: Who knew that an animal indigenous to the Middle East couldn’t walk on
Mathematics is a bitch ain’t it? Despite what a contract may say, -3 + 2 = -1 … inconvenient as that may be to the champions of the entitlement culture now on display in the statehouse of Madison, WI. Wisconsin’s
