Without Significant Reforms, Public Pensions Will Bankrupt State and Local...
State and local governments across the country are struggling with public pension liabilities and discovering that they likely will not be able to afford the benefits they have promised. While this has...
View ArticleOil Gushes and Power Rushes
Last week, after President Obama pressured BP to create a compensation fund for victims of its oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Rep. Joe Barton denounced the arrangement as "a $20 billion shakedown."...
View ArticleObama, Lord of the Rings
Your moral bearings obviously have been corrupted by high concentrations of carbon dioxide.You've gotten past that scandalous word—"oil"—for a moment and begun to wonder who gave the administration the...
View ArticleIs Obama an Anglophobe?
By the time British Petroleum completed its 1998 acronymization to BP, the company had probably spent millions in "brand consultant" fees. It’s an important point, this, because the rebranding was...
View ArticleIf You Love Newspapers, Let Them Go
Newspaper. Personally, I never touch the stuff. But rumor has it there is a certain amount of distress about the impending doom of the news-on-dead-tree industry.Here at Reason, our “News You Can Use”...
View ArticleEuropean Weakness Is Fuelling U.S. Profligacy
The European debt crisis has demonstrated the painful costs of fiscal profligacy and short-sighted Keynesian stimulus. In the words of financial historian Niall Ferguson, “there is no such thing as a...
View ArticleTaking State Parks off the State's Books, Part 2
Bacon's Rebellion My last column (see "Taking State Parks off the States Books," 4/14) explored the concept of long-term concessions with private recreation management firms for the operation and...
View ArticleComing Consumer Restrictions
The Congressional conference tasked with combining the Senate and House financial services reform bills appears to have reached an agreement on a new consumer financial protection agency (CFPA) housed...
View ArticleObama Missteps on McChrystal
In making and tolerating disparaging comments about his civilian superiors in front of a reporter, Gen. Stanley McChrystal failed a test of leadership, judgment, and respect for his role in a...
View ArticleGuns Save Lives
You know what the mainstream media think about guns and our freedom to carry them.Pierre Thomas of ABC: "When someone gets angry or when they snap, they are going to be able to have access to...
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