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An Energy Strategy for Grown-Ups

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Lamar Alexander - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - The tragic Gulf oil spill has produced overreaction ("end offshore drilling"), demagoguery ("Obama's Katrina") and bad policy recommendations ("We must generate 20% of our electricity from windmills"). None of this helps clean up and move forward. If we want both clean energy and a high standard of living, here are 10 steps for thoughtful grown-ups:

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Cheney for President

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By James Taranto - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - As the Obama administration moves toward prosecuting intelligence agents for allegedly overzealous questioning of terrorism in the months following the 9/11 attacks, the Washington Post delivers a timely reminder of why those methods were thought necessary.

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The Truth About Health Insurance

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Aug. 12 (Opinion) - Only nine states have the costly rules that Obama wants to impose nationwide.

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Pakistan's Existential Challenge

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Bret Stephens - May. 12 (Opinion) - About Iran, Henry Kissinger once asked whether the Islamic Republic was a country or a cause. About Pakistan, the question is whether it's a country or merely a space.

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Obama's Gitmo

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By William McGurn - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - You know we live in interesting times when Helen Thomas is going after Barack Obama. Miss Thomas was asking the White House press secretary last week why detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan should not have the same right to challenge their detention in federal court that last year's Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush gave to Guantanamo's detainees. All Mr. Gibbs could do was interrupt and correct the doyenne of the White House press corps about Mr. Obama's class as a law professor.

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Want to Pay Less in Taxes Next Year? Secession Could Lower Your Tax Bill.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Brett Arends - Apr. 17 (Opinion) - Most people like a tax break. So three cheers for Texas governor Rick Perry, who on Tax Day highlighted a radical way to cut your federal tax bill. Secession.

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Barack Obama's Expensive Domestic Agenda Will Cost America's Middle Class

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - The bottom line is that Mr. Obama is selling the country on a 2% illusion. ..Mr. Obama is very good at portraying his agenda as nothing more than center-left pragmatism. But pragmatists don't ignore the data. And the reality is that the only way to pay for Mr. Obama's ambitions is to reach ever deeper into the pockets of the American middle class.

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Wall Street Mocked American Values

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Thomas Frank - Feb. 11 (Opinion) - The announcement last week that Trader Monthly magazine was ceasing publication was one of those moments when a chance arrow of history scores a perfect bull's eye on a deserving target. The current recession, brought on at least in part by Wall Street's bonus lust, has claimed countless innocent victims. But in this case it has finally delivered a comeuppance to our era's loudest, gaudiest, cockiest champion of Wall Street excess. Those who still single out former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain as a symbol of extravagance should take note. Yes, the man once spent over a million dollars having his office remodeled and went on to arrange questionable bonuses for the year in which Merrill lost billions and sold itself to Bank of America. Just a few years ago, however, the bonus cognoscenti at Trader Monthly depicted Mr. Thain as something of a piker. In an article that began with the sentence, "What, did somebody forget a zero?" they sneered at Mr. Thain's "reported compensation," which they claimed was $6 million for 2006, back when he was CEO of the New York Stock Exchange.

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A Spending Education

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Feb. 07 (Editorial) - o understand the problem with the stimulus bill, it helps to focus on specific parts. Take the $142 billion for schools, which is nearly double the total outlays of the Department of Education in 2007. Now consider that much of this cash would go to public-school systems that don't even need the money for its earmarked purposes. The Milwaukee Public School system, for example, would receive $88.6 million over two years for new construction projects under the House version of the stimulus -- even though the district currently has 15 vacant school buildings and declining enrollment. Between 1990 and 2008, inflation-adjusted MPS spending rose by 35%, per-pupil spending increased by 36% and state aid grew by 58%. Over the same period, enrollment fell by a percentage point and is projected to continue falling, leaving the system with enough excess capacity for some 22,000 students.

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Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Thomas Frank - Jan. 28 (Opinion) - Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.

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Barack Obama Will Ration Your Health Care

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Sally C. Pipes - Dec. 30 (Opinion) - One of the great myths in health care is that the uninsured are responsible for driving up private premiums by shifting costs.

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We Need a Global Carbon Tax

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Ralph Nader, Toby Heaps - Dec. 03 (Opinion) - If President Barack Obama wants to stop the descent toward dangerous global climate change, and avoid the trade anarchy that current approaches to this problem will invite, he should take Al Gore's proposal for a carbon tax and make it global.

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Russia Out of Rehab

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Nov. 18 (Editorial) - Russia needed only a few days this August to drive Georgia's army into retreat. In the aftermath, Europe has held out only a bit longer than Tbilisi's troops.

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Obama's Car Puzzle

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. - Nov. 12 (Opinion) - You have in GM's Volt a perfect car of the Age of Obama -- or at least the Honeymoon of Obama, before the reality principle kicks in. Even as GM teeters toward bankruptcy and wheedles for billions in public aid, its forthcoming plug-in hybrid continues to absorb a big chunk of the company's product development budget. This is a car that, by GM's own admission, won't make money. It's a car that can't possibly provide a buyer with value commensurate with the resources and labor needed to build it. It's a car that will be unsalable without multiple handouts from government.

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McCain Owes Sarah Some Straight Talk

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Nov. 11 (Opinion) - In the week since the election, Mr. McCain's campaign team has leaked some nasty stuff about Sarah Palin. These leaks are personal, and they speak more to the character of Mr. McCain and the leakers than they do to Mrs. Palin. So it will be telling if Mr. McCain stands up for his partner and says how offended he has been by what some of his staffers have done to her.

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The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - Nov. 05 (Editorial) - The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

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We Could Be In for a Lurch to the Left

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Fred Barnes - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - A sharp lurch to the left and enactment of a liberal agenda, or major parts of it, are all but inevitable. The centrist limits in earlier eras of Democratic control are gone.

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Don't Let the Polls Affect Your Vote

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Karl Rove - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - Polls can reveal underlying or emerging trends and help campaigns decide where to focus. The danger is that commentators use them to declare a race over before the votes are in. This can demoralize the underdog's supporters, depressing turnout. I know that from experience.

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The Election Choice: Trade

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Mary Anastasia O'Grady - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - The U.S. hasn't elected a genuinely protectionist president since Herbert Hoover, and for most of the last 80 years a rough bipartisan consensus has held that free trade is in the American national interest. The erosion of that consensus is reflected in the gulf between John McCain and Barack Obama on trade, which is probably the widest division at the presidential level since the 1920s.

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The Election Choice: Taxes

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Brian M. Carney - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - When it comes to taxes, the difference between Barack Obama and John McCain is arguably as wide as it's been in a presidential race since Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale battled in 1984.

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Good Policies Can Save the Economy

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Lee E. Ohanian - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - President Bush argued that the passage of the Treasury rescue plan was necessary to prevent the U.S. from entering a severe downturn. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced it will begin buying commercial paper to, in the words of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, help "financial firms cope with reduced access to their usual sources of funding."

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The 'Fact Checking' Fad

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By James Taranto - Oct. 08 (Opinion) - 2008 is the year in which "fact checking" of political ads and statements became a full-blown journalistic fad. May it soon go the way of streaking and Mexican jumping beans.

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Gore's Rebellion

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration." He added, "clean coal does not exist."

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McCain's Scapegoat

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Sep. 19 (Editorial) - John McCain has made it clear this week he doesn't understand what's happening on Wall Street any better than Barack Obama does. But on Thursday, he took his populist riffing up a notch and found his scapegoat for financial panic -- Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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The GOP Loves the Heartland To Death

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Thomas Frank - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - Leave the fantasy land of convention rhetoric, and you will find that small-town America, this legendary place of honesty and sincerity and dignity, is not doing very well. If you drive west from Kansas City, Mo., you will find towns where Main Street is largely boarded up. You will see closed schools and hospitals. You will hear about depleted groundwater and massive depopulation.

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