By Roger Kimball read »
Epidemics provide fodder for the news media, especially on slow news days. They give politicians a good cause to promote and villains to blame. We move from one fad epidemic to the next, abandoning old ones to the dustbin of history. Fear of epidemics that never were can be costly, such as the mad cow epidemic, whose incidence proved no more than the normal background disease level. There are still enough tuna to grace our tables, and the polar bear population seems to be doing just fine. read »
June 7, 2012 read »
Hillary Clinton needs a new travel agent. Somehow, on her way to Iowa, Kansas, Florida, and the Bronx Zoo, Hillary’s travel agent sent her on a wild goose chase to Greenland, of all places. read »
By Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller read »
Public sector unions have reached their high water mark. Let the cleanup begin as the red ink recedes. read »
As President Barack Obama approaches the final hundred days before his election, events have forced his campaign to adopt a new political strategy: hoping Americans forget the first hundred days of his presidency. read »
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's push to ban the sale of large, sugary drinks in New York City made headlines last week, but it's really just another dog-bites-man political story. For years, government officials from Washington D.C. down to local school districts have been busily writing regulations and levying new taxes in an attempt to control what Americans eat. read »
The Obama campaign is being a little rough on Mitt Romney’s less than perfect public equity performance at the helm of Bain Capital… a mere 70 percent success rate. This undoubtedly falls short of his administration’s own 71 percent achievement. But there’s even a much bigger difference between the two. While the Bain Capital 70% refers to successful company investments, the president’s 71% figure refers something else altogether… the percentage of Energy Department green energy grants and loans[...] read »
American exceptionalism is the notion that the United States occupies a unique position in the world, offering opportunity and hope to others by its unique balance of public and private interests and constitutional ideals of personal and economic freedom. The phrase, often attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville in his 1835 Democracy in America, offers Romney an opening wide enough for a truck: If America is exceptional, why must we fundamentally transform it as Obama promises? Instead, we need a steady-hand[...] read »