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The folly of doubling down on electric cars

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - By Ed Morrissey - Jun. 01 (News Analysis) - But do electric vehicles make any sense from a financial, environmental, or national security perspective? At the very least, they do nothing to end our reliance on foreign resources, and at worst, they may well be more damaging than the internal-combustion vehicles we use now.

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Was Sarah Palin's Reality TV Show Government-Subsidized?

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - her reality TV show, "Sarah Palin's Alaska," received a $1.2 million subsidy from the state, covering almost a third of the show's Alaskan production costs. The state subsidy was signed into law by Palin herself in 2008.

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On health-care, GOP faces risk, too

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - By David Frum - Jul. 24 (Opinion) - Are the wheels coming off the Democratic plan to revolutionize American health care? We can only hope so. But as Republicans resist the new controls, new taxes, and new government expansion proposed by Democrats, they need to be very careful to avoid the opposite mistake: defending an indefensible status quo.

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Palin won't be GOP nominee in 2012

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - By Robert Shrum - Jul. 16 (Opinion) - Sarah Palin is the bright red thread in the dull grey fabric of the Republican Party. She is charismatic, quirky, melodramatic, and fervently anti-choice, anti-gay, and anti-Obama. But there's one thing she'll never be—the GOP nominee for President in 2012.

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Chrysler's road out of bankruptcy

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - May. 01 (News Analysis) - President Obama’s announcement that Chrysler will declare bankruptcy “isn’t as bad as it sounds,” said Matthew DeBord in Slate's The Big Money. Chrysler won’t “face liquidation,” and Michigan won’t face “an unemployment cataclysm.” This just means that Chrysler, which has been in de facto bankruptcy for months, will have some breathing room as it tries to climb back with the help of government cash and a new partner, Fiat.

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The Obamas take Europe

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - Apr. 13 (Opinion) - President Obama this week wrapped up one of the more productive and substance-filled presidential trips to Europe in recent history—but at times it felt more like two love-struck teenagers on a giddy first date. Europeans, still blinking in joy and disbelief at the sudden end of the Bush era, showered Obama with affection from London to Strasbourg to Prague, and Obama returned the sentiment, showing more respect for—and comfort with—the Old World than any president since John F. Kennedy.

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Holding on to happiness in hard times

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Week - Nov. 30 (Review) - With economists projecting a gloomy Christmas and an even gloomier 2009, new research offers clues into how a dispirited nation can hold on to some optimism. Is there a cure for the blues? When did happiness become a subject for science? Philosophers have been on the case for centuries. But in the past decade, a burgeoning field of study known as “positive psychology” has sought to redirect scientific attention from humanity’s psychological ills to its psychological successes. More than 200 colleges now offer courses in positive psychology, which seeks to maximize happiness both for individuals and for society at large. “The focus on pathology,” writes University of Pennsylvania psychologist Martin Seligman, “results in a model of the human being lacking the positive features which make life worth living.”

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The trouble with Georgia

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - Aug. 11 (News Analysis) - Russian forces attacked neighboring Georgia, hitting military and civilian targets, after Georgia tried to reassert control over the Russian-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia over the weekend. Georgia called for a cease-fire, after its troops were repelled, but Russia said it wouldn't stop its attacks until all Georgian troops were gone. What the commentators said It's not clear what Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili expected to achieve, said India's The Hindu in an editorial, by "attacking and attempting brutally to take military control of" South Ossetia, but what he got was "a bloody nose." The "diehard ally" of the U.S. "had zero chance of success" against Russia's overwhelming military might, and now he's worse off than before.

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Giving Iraq another look

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Week - Jul. 08 (News Analysis) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has made a series of statements recently in an apparent appeal to centrist voters. Obama said he supports gun-ownership rights, and would consider cutting corporate taxes. On July 3, he said he would "continue to refine my policies'' on the Iraq War.

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Mercy for Lawyer Who Helped Terrorist

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:40:56 -0700

The Week - Oct. 21 (Special Report) - A federal judge in New York this week sentenced radical lawyer Lynne Stewart to 28 months in prison for passing messages to and from a convicted terrorist. Federal prosecutors had asked that Stewart, 67, receive the maximum, 30-year sentence. But Judge John Koeltl said that while Stewart was guilty of “extraordinarily severe criminal conduct,” she deserved leniency in light of her 30-year-career of “public service” representing the poor and unpopular radicals. Koeltl also cited Stewart’s health problems; she is suffering from breast cancer. “You get time off for good behavior usually at the end of your prison term,” Stewart said. “I got it at the beginning.”

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The skies darken for the GOP

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:56:48 -0700

The Week - Oct. 21 (Special Report) - "Republicans and conservatives, brace yourselves!" said Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard. On Election Day, your domination of Congress will come to an end. For 12 years, the GOP has held a solid majority in both the House and Senate. Now strategists from both parties predict that in the upcoming November elections, Republicans will lose the House and, in all likelihood, maintain only a one- or two-seat majority in the Senate. The poll numbers are "ominous," with 54 percent of registered voters preferring a Democratic Congress. Democrats - fired up by their contempt for President Bush - are telling the pollsters that they are highly motivated to vote, while the conservative base is "gloomy" and disgusted. The recent sex scandal involving former Republican Rep. Mark Foley didn't help, said David Broder in The Washington Post. But the public's disaffection with the ruling party goes far deeper than that. Republicans have come to stand for the botched war in Iraq, the disastrous Hurricane Katrina response, and the Abramoff lobbying scandal. They're being blamed, quite rightly, for a failure to act on the serious problems of illegal immigration, foreign oil dependency, and soaring health-care costs. In recent weeks, I've heard a dozen key Republicans say, "We deserve to lose this election."

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McCain: Is the Republican senator Bush's heir apparent?

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:37:25 -0800

The Week - Mar. 17 (News Analysis) - The Republican race to succeed George Bush is on, said John Dickerson in Slate.com. Last weekend, some of the GOP's brightest talent could be found preening before delegates from 36 states at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Memphis. Each candidate was very visibly making his case to be the party's nominee in 2008.

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