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- Government Using TARP to Take Over Business - April 10, 2009
- Even its harshest detractors have to admit that the National Security Act did what it said; TARP is one the great misnomers in U.S. government. So far, the program has...
- Obama's Non-Stop Naivete - April 7, 2009
- North Korea's diplomatic and economic strategy for two decades has been to engage in spectacular acts of international malfeasance to bully and cajole the world into...
- The Moscow Delusion - April 3, 2009
- Obama and Medvedev agreed to negotiate a new arms-control treaty and work together on a host of initiatives from the Afghan War to the Iranian nuclear program. Medvedev...
- The Outrage Test - March 17, 2009
- AIG has been the bailout from hell, dysfunctional and opaque. The government has had to restructure its rescue over and over, throwing billions more into its maw. Only...
- President Obama's 3-Step - New York Post - March 14, 2009
- Last updated: 4:39 amMarch 14, 2009 Posted: 1:25 amMarch 14, 2009 BARACK Obama has per fected a three-step maneu ver that could never even be attempted by a politician...
- Chas of Arabia - March 6, 2009
- Sure enough, Freeman is now president of the anti-Israel Middle East Policy Council, which might not exist without Saudi largesse. In a 2006 interview with a Saudi news...
- Obama's Real Agenda is Coming Into Focus - March 3, 2009
- Obama exaggerated the downside of the economy two weeks ago so he could get more spending, and now he's exaggerating its upside so he can get more spending. The fixed...
- Obama and the $1 Trillion Question - New York Post - February 25, 2009
- Goodbye to the Governator - February 20, 2009
- Schwarzenegger presided over the creation of a budget deficit worse than the one that led to his ousting of Democratic governor Gray Davis in 2003. The state has a...
- Obama's Tainted Win - February 17, 2009
- The House wrote the bill with no Republican input, and when the House and Senate met in a conference committee to hammer out differences in the bills that had passed the...
- Caution: Zombie Economy Ahead - February 13, 2009
- Members of the House Financial Services Committee flogged eight banking chief executive officers the other day, apparently without considering that some of them were...
- "I Won" Isn't Going to Close the Deal - February 6, 2009
- As far as political arguments go, "I won" has its power - provided it's made on behalf of an agenda ratified by the American electorate. But Obama didn't campaign on a...
- When Maynard Met Nancy - January 27, 2009
- The bright shining original Keynesian conception of the stimulus bill was that it would rebuild the nation's famously "crumbling" infrastructure--roads, schools, the...
- Barack Obama's Soaring Pragmatism - January 23, 2009
- Since the election, Obama has only strengthened his political position with a widely praised transition. He has appropriated the country's first Republican president,...
- The Roots of His Confidence - January 20, 2009
- What undergirds Obama's assuredness? First, there's his own talent, of which he is quite aware. According to The New Yorker magazine, he told someone he was interviewing...
- Do We Really Want Another New Deal? - January 16, 2009
- Should we want Obama to propose a quasi-militaristic program to empower business cartels to set prices, on the model of FDR's National Recovery Administration? Should he...
- Bush's Mistakes - January 13, 2009
- -- Not getting congressional buy-in on detention policy immediately after 9/11. Going to Congress would have forced more deliberation when the administration was rushing...
- Why the Regulators Always Lose - January 9, 2009
- The 2005 letter from investment maven Harry Markopolos to the SEC arguing that Madoff had to be a scammer has become justly famous. Titled "The World's Largest Hedge...
- Fiscal Follies - January 6, 2009
- That Congress will take more time, into February, to pass the bill constitutes a notable act of fiscal restraint in the Age of Obama. Otherwise, congressmen will make...
- The New Culture War - December 29, 2008
- Warren is comfortably in the American mainstream. The pastor of the Saddleback evangelical mega-church in Lake Forest, Calif., he's the author of "The Purpose Driven...
- Cronyism in an Era of Change - December 19, 2008
- If the recent Senate maneuverings are any indication, the "new politics" of the Obama Democrats is convenient cover while they take care of their own as the powerful...
- Paulson's Pliable Plan - December 16, 2008
- The books should be sent back for a rewrite. Last week, the Bush administration all but committed bailout funds to the -- in the great economist Joseph Schumpeter's...
- The Heart of Blago - December 12, 2008
- Blagojevich's greed wasn't just open and ham-fisted, it was remarkably petty -- one scheme he discussed was selling Obama's Senate seat for a mere $150,000 annual salary...
- Obama's Green FlimFlam - New York Post - December 6, 2008
- Barack the Realist - December 2, 2008
- Obama has selected a former Marine commandant close to John McCain, Gen. Jim Jones, as his national-security adviser; asked President George W. Bush's defense secretary,...
- Obama's New Clinton Administration - November 25, 2008
- So far, President-elect Obama has acted with a ruthless pragmatism. He ignored the yowling left-wing blogosphere when it demanded Joe Lieberman's head, turned...
- The President-Elect's New Economic Philosophy - NY Post - November 25, 2008
- Infrastructure Spending to Nowhere - November 18, 2008
- Democrats are enjoying a New Deal reverie wherein a Democratic president solves an economic crisis with public-works projects. The new issue of Time magazine features...
- Youthfulness The Idiom Of American Politics - November 14, 2008
- The persistent line of attack against McCain for being "erratic" evoked an old man lurching confusedly. The signature Obama put-down of McCain for being "out of touch"...
- Bailout Nation? Obama & The Big 3 - November 11, 2008
- The auto companies argue that they have been caught up in the credit crunch, and therefore deserve a piece of the financial bailout. General Motors' sales dropped 45...
- The Right Needs to Get Centered - Washington Post - November 9, 2008
- Center Holds - November 7, 2008
- Republicans once could, as Horace Greeley did in the 19th century, dismiss Democratic areas as "the haunts of debauchery and vice." The great Jeane Kirkpatrick updated...
- End of the Reagan-Clinton Era? - November 4, 2008
- In terms of our globalized economy, we've been living in the Reagan-Clinton years. As David Smick writes in his compelling new book on the financial system, The World Is...
- Putting Fairness Before Economics - New York Post - October 31, 2008
- Barack Obama, False Moderate - October 24, 2008
- Clinton had earned the right in 1992 to run as a "new kind of Democrat" by confronting liberal interest groups in the primaries. Obama simply showed up the day after he...
- Powell's Lame Case For Obama - October 21, 2008
- Powell's reasons for swinging to Obama were a watery stew of all the regnant clichés about the campaign.Powell argued that John McCain "was a little unsure as to [how...
- Obama's Opportunism - October 10, 2008
- After the Democratic primaries, Obama's challenge was connecting with working-class voters on their economic concerns. Could the dispassionate Obama rouse himself to do...
- McCain Was Good, but So Was Obama - National Review - October 7, 2008
- McCain Can't Dodge the Economy - October 7, 2008
- But it doesn't matter how many times Sarah Palin rips Obama for consorting with Ayers, or if the McCain campaign runs exclusively Ayers and Wright TV ads for the next...
- Liberals Rethink Free Speech - October 4, 2008
- But the politics of free speech has been subtly shifting. Opponents of the ACLU on the Right are increasingly worried about overreaching rules against "hate speech"...