National Politics
If you want another example of how misguided incentives in the public sector lead to bad outcomes, here is another pathetic example (available from the WSJ for a fee): …What’s meaningful about the [highway] bill the Senate passed yesterday…is just how quickly and utterly some Republicans have abandoned all spending principle. The 89-11 Senate vote…
In the heat of intense political warfare, perspective is often the first thing to disappear. Let’s apply that observation to the debate about Tom DeLay, Republican Majority Leader in the US House of Representatives, and see if we can regain some perspective. I have been critical of Tom DeLay even before Howard Dean got into…
Howard Dean, national chairman of the Democratic party, thinks Tom DeLay is guilty until proven innocent: “I think he’s guilty . . . of taking trips paid for by lobbyists, and of campaign-finance violations during his manipulation of the Texas election process,” Dean said. But Howard Dean thinks Osama bin Laden is innocent until proven…
Pew has come out with a new poll in which it developed some new and interesting political typologies. If you want to find out what kind of “political animal” you are, then go here and take the survey. A few of the dual statements with which you are supposed to agree or disagree seemed to…
Newsweek finally fully retracted its story, and the libertarian uber-linker Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) offered this own opinion regarding liberal hypocrisy and their manufactured outrage over this now-false abridgement of religious rights (and the more general Guantanamo “torture” charges) I want to add that I don’t think there’s anything immoral about flushing a Koran (or a…
From the OpinionJournal.com, offered without comment: Liberal Fundamentalism Who are the intolerant extremists? Monday, May 16, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT We have been following the extensive theological commentary in the press on the subject of politics and religion in the current presidential campaign. It might not otherwise have occurred to us that so many editorialists…
There is an excellent posting on Captain’s Quarters about Janice Rogers Brown, one of the court nominees being filibustered by Senate Democrats, that references this Sacramento Bee editorial written by a liberal who, among other things, said: I know Janice Rogers Brown, and she knows me, but we’re not friends. The associate justice of the…
Stephen Green of Vodkapundit offers a striking counter-argument to Pat Buchanan’s editorial entitled “Was World War II worth it?”: It took 40 years, but today Pat Buchanan hit bottom on the slippery slope from Young Turk conservative columnist to Nazi Apologist troglodyte… Shame on Buchanan. We must never let the evil of World War II…
Welp, what are we all to make of this? Mr. Gingrich and Mrs. Clinton have a lot more in common now that they have left behind the politics of the 1990’s, when she was a symbol of the liberal excesses of the Clinton White House and he was a fiery spokesman for a resurgent conservative…
Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial entitled “Pension Fund Politics” in which it made these comments about labor union practices: One of the more dangerous political trends these days is the misuse of public pension assets for partisan ends. So it was encouraging this week to see the Labor Department give a…
