Some members of Congress seem to like putting taxpayers on the hook for practically unlimited liabilities. Senator Robert Casey wants Americans to bail out union pension plans underfunded by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Sometimes you have to take your political lenses out and look at the actual economic statistics in order to gauge whether we're on the road to recovery or not. Conservatives should not lose their cool and blow their credibility over a cyclical rebound that is backed by the statistics.
Sometimes you have to take your political lenses out and look at the actual economic statistics in order to gauge whether we're on the road to recovery or not. Conservatives should not lose their cool and blow their credibility over a cyclical rebound that is backed by the statistics.
Two different polling firms separately asked voters in California and New York how their state governments should solve current budget problems: tax increases, spending cuts, or a combination. Neither poll gave voters another choice: more debt.
Two different polling firms separately asked voters in California and New York how their state governments should solve current budget problems: tax increases, spending cuts, or a combination. Neither poll gave voters another choice: more debt.
Is it possible that China will "rule the world" in the near future? Only if it's able to successfully transform from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, and then an innovation-based one.
Is it possible that China will "rule the world" in the near future? Only if it's able to successfully transform from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, and then an innovation-based one.
Voting is so central to the American system that three of the last five amendments to our Constitution deal with voting. Now, the American political Left wants to extend the vote to increasingly younger demographics.
Voting is so central to the American system that three of the last five amendments to our Constitution deal with voting. Now, the American political Left wants to extend the vote to increasingly younger demographics.
The biggest story out there right now has got to be the re-emergence of King Dollar. All the dollar bears from the beginning of this year, and all the gold bulls, have been completely and utterly wrong.
The biggest story out there right now has got to be the re-emergence of King Dollar. All the dollar bears from the beginning of this year, and all the gold bulls, have been completely and utterly wrong.
Americans would do well to ponder a recent admission by a former British minister in: that while spending on Britain's National Health Service had increased by 60 percent under the Labour government, its output had decreased by 4 percent.
The largest health care labor union in the United States is using its 2.2 million members' hard-earned dues to finance an intense, expensive lobbying campaign to support the health-insurance bill - in order to prop up its failing pension plans.
Surprise, surprise. Sen. Chris Dodd's financial-regulation proposal raises the possibility of substantial progress on the road to ending "too big to fail" and bailout nation for banks.
Within South Korea, the three most prestigious universities are Seoul National University, Korea University, and Yonsei University. Collectively, they are referred to by the acronym SKY.
The U.S. and Brazil are battling over cotton: Brazil counters U.S. subsidies with tariffs on a variety of imports. The global economy remains in fragile-recovery mode, and the freest possible flow of goods and services is critical to that recovery.
A democracy is not a democracy without free and fair elections. So why does America, the granddaddy of democracies, tolerate election systems that aren't free of fraud?
Sen. Jim Bunning was right all along. For this, an act of integrity, everyone in Washington and the media piled on him. So I'll defend him. Bunning actually favors unemployment benefits, but he wants Congress to find a way to pay for it.
Budgets are being cut from state-supported universities primarily because states are facing budget shortfalls of historic proportions. However, short-sighted state politics like this will lead to long-term consequences.
Health-care proposals from the White House follow a set pattern. The President identifies a real problem; he talks about the need for bipartisan action; he finally proposes a partisan solution that has been tried somewhere and failed miserably.
