I have lost count of the number of friends and acquaintances who work in the private sector who have told metheir employer has either cut their pay or frozen their salaries to avoid laying off (them a...

In another excellent article on the health care debate, the Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman and Janet Adamy, together with Neil King get at the essence how, in the Journal’s word...

In May 2005, trying to back away from his statement earlier that year that he hated “Republicans and everything they stand for,” then-chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard ...

Via Megan McArdle, I learn of another self-important utterance from Andrew Sullivan.  Where I once had read his blog on a regular basis, now I only learn of his thoughts when I chance across them i...

Like my fellow right-of-center bloggers, Dan Riehl and Betsy Newmark, I’m not much of a fan of Glenn Beck’s program.  (His style is a little too “breathless” for me.) I do,...

The unhappy Barney Frank is at it again.  Like many Democrats, this mean-spirited man from Massachusetts, has such faith in the power of government to right all wrongs that his House Financial Serv...

James Taranto echoes my thoughts upon reading that the Congressional Budget Office had scored the Baucus health care bill (still lacking legislative language) and found the $829 billion boondogg...

In announcing her intention yesterday to vote for the Baucus legislative concepts on health care reform, the senior Senator from Maine, Republican Olympia Snowe, said that while the bill was “fa...

An article leading Yahoo! as I checked my e-mail late Wednesday night, Obama calls for $250 payments to seniors, suggests the President has not yet fathomed just how much the national debt has increas...

Glenn Reynolds links an article which reports that First Hard Stimulus Data Finds Only 30,000 Jobs Saved or Created. The Administration, however, cautions that this ”data was partial  ...