Jury selection begins today in the trial of Lori Drew, indicted by federal prosecutors for using false information to create a MySpace account. Yes, that’s right: she’s not charged (pdf) with “cyber-bullying” or harassment or even causing the death of Megan Meier, the teen who committed suicide after she received …
Is there nothing the liberals on Capitol Hill will not throw money at? MIT Professor Andrew Lo testified before the House Oversight Committee last week on the increasing gap between pay for finance and engineering graduates (hint, there is money in finance kids!). Not content to let high salaries solve …
Heritage Senior Research Fellow James Gattuso explains what happens when bankruptcy is declared and why it is a better option for Detroit Automakers [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wKGODqsZ2o[/youtube]
This week Capitol Hill is focused on bailing out the Big Three auto makers. But come January throwing money down the Detroit money hole will just be one of many schemes the Obama administration and his liberal majorities in Congress will be pushing. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), of Countrywide Financial …
This week the executives of the Big Three auto makers are expected to testify on Capitol Hill. As Heritage Senior Legal Analyst Andrew Grossman points out, these industry titans may have breached their fiduciary duties by relying solely on Congress to bail them out: A corporation’s board of directors, as …
Over the weekend, the Washington Post editorial page continued its support of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program—comparing President-elect Obama’s position on school vouchers with his family’s experience of choosing a school in the nation’s capital: Let’s hope the experience of moving his girls and finding the place where they will …
Heritage U.S. Senate Relations Director Brian Darling writes in Human Events: The Democratic leadership in Congress and President-elect Barack Obama have an ambitious stimulus list, including monies for pet transportation projects, an extension of unemployment insurance, food stamps and a costly auto industry bailout (more on that below). The Bush …
Before he became Treasury secretary, Hank Paulson firmly believed the government had no business interfering in financial markets by banning the short selling of financial stocks. But by mid-September of this year, while Lehman Brothers was on the verge of collapse, Paulson pressured the Securities and Exchange Commission to ban …
