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• Media Continues to Ignore Head Start’s Failing Evaluation

  Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 4:00pm in Education with 11 comments

  Credit the Pittsburgh Tribune Review for being one of the nation’s first newspapers to editorialize about last month’s national Head Start evaluation, which found that the program provided children with zero lasting benefits. They editors write: “That it took the feds more than 40 years for a proper analysis suggests it’s the spending that matters, [...] More

• Morning Bell: $787 Billion in Stimulus, Zero Jobs “Created or Saved”

  Posted January 12th, 2010 at 10:34am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 44 comments

  On February 11th, President Barack Obama stood on a windy hilltop in front of a dusty construction site in Fairfax County, Virginia, and promised the American people: “Here in Virginia, my plan will create or save almost 100,000 jobs, doing work at sites just like this one.” Standing alongside current Democratic National Committee Chairman and [...] More

• Federal Court Fines Obama Administration for Lack of Transparency

  Posted January 7th, 2010 at 11:32am in Rule of Law with 16 comments

  For the last nine months, the Justice Department has been stonewalling requests for more information about its dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther party. The department has denied requests for information about the case from newspapers and members of Congress, and is refusing to comply with subpoenas issued by the U.S. [...] More

• If Government Rewrites News

  Posted October 19th, 2009 at 6:54pm in Enterprise and Free Markets, First Principles with 4 comments

  If you liked how the government shoved its nose into high finance, “green” energy, automaking and health care, you’re gonna love what it does with your local news. That’s the prospect opened by a new study from an old-line bastion of objectivity, the Columbia School of Journalism, on how the storied trade of news reporting won’t [...] More

• Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers?

  Posted September 22nd, 2009 at 2:02am in Enterprise and Free Markets, First Principles with 6 comments

  A Senate bill to bail out America’s newspapers, after languishing all summer like so much fishwrap, gained street cred over the weekend when President Barack Obama said he’d “be happy” to consider the measure. The legislation in question would allow failing newspapers to seek the protection of tax-exempt, non-profit status. “I haven’t seen detailed proposals yet,” [...] More

• Morning Bell: The Policy Is The Problem

  Posted September 21st, 2009 at 9:46am in Health Care with 36 comments

  Prior to his September 9th, health care “make or break” press conference, the Wall Street Journal estimated that President Barack Obama had by that time already given 27 speeches entirely devoted to health care and he had mentioned the issue prominently in another 92. While the September 9th presser bumped approval of Obamacare all the [...] More

• Morning Bell: Media Watchdog Has No Bark

  Posted September 15th, 2009 at 8:59am in Ongoing Priorities with 51 comments

  In the age of Obama, the media formerly known as mainstream can remind one of 19th century British literature. Pride and Prejudice sometimes, of course, but more often a favorite Sherlock Holmes story, Silver Blaze. In it, the famous sleuth has the following exchange with Inspector Gregory: Gregory: “Is there any other point to which you [...] More

• Tomorrow’s Health Care Headlines Today

  Posted July 16th, 2009 at 12:18pm in Health Care with 2 comments

  A Boston Globe headline today reads Boston Medical sues state for funds. Replace “Boston Medical” with “Local Hospital X” and “state” with “federal government,” and you’ll have tomorrow’s headline. And it will dominate newspapers across the country, should Obamacare become law. First, though, some history. When Massachusetts passed their health reform law in 2006, one of the major [...] More

• On Net, No Change? Not Quite

  Posted May 26th, 2009 at 5:46pm in Rule of Law with 0 comments

  Eight hours later, and it’s already become an old canard: Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s elevation to the High Court won’t affect its balance one bit. It may be an effective talking point—the Left seems to think so—but it isn’t true. Consider just one area of law, business law. As concerns businesses and economic matters, Justice David Souter [...] More

• And Now, It’s France’s Turn

  Posted March 25th, 2009 at 10:13am in American Leadership with 3 comments

  President Obama’s administration just can’t leave well enough alone. First, it couldn’t manage to be respectful to Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, during his visit. When a State Department official responsible for planning the visit was questioned about this by the Sunday Telegraph, the official’s response was: There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re [...] More