Tag: Bloomberg opinion

by The City Wire staff - December 12, 2012 6:50 pm

The end of the NCAA?

Poor Mark Emmert. The president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association has had to stand idly by as college football reconstitutes itself around him. Rutgers and the University of Maryland…

by The City Wire staff - November 29, 2012 8:23 pm

Fiscal cliff discovered long ago

While “fiscal cliff” negotiations may produce high drama for journalists and partisans as well as desperate uncertainty from Main Street to Wall Street, they are an absolute gold mine for…

by The City Wire staff - November 13, 2012 6:35 pm

Guarding Obama’s welfare state

For most of the past century, the U.S. and continental Europe have followed different paths. Social Democrats often ran European governments, which typically taxed and spent a greater share of…

by The City Wire staff - October 25, 2012 9:00 pm

Abandoned principles

My late father taught me that what defines a principle is the willingness to adhere to it even when that adherence hurts. Maybe that’s why the newfound appreciation of the…

by The City Wire staff - October 21, 2012 9:48 am

McGovern’s libertarian legacy

The venerable former senator and failed presidential candidate George McGovern, who died today (Oct. 21) at 90, is being remembered by many friends and foes alike as the archetypal ultraliberal….

by The City Wire staff - October 17, 2012 10:07 pm

The Atheist vote

President Barack Obama’s multiple references to Planned Parenthood in the second presidential debate showed how keen he is to sway female voters in swing states. He may have emboldened another…

by The City Wire staff - October 8, 2012 11:07 pm

Obama’s property grab

The Barack Obama administration tried last week to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that the federal government can deny landowners the use of their property for years – decades if…

by The City Wire staff - September 4, 2012 1:13 pm

Unglamorous ways to grow jobs

We keep hearing that the U.S. presidential election is all about jobs. So why aren’t we getting more concrete ideas from the candidates about how to create more of them?…

by The City Wire staff - August 29, 2012 6:50 pm

Fiscal cliff not so bad

Just when you thought you could forget about the fiscal cliff and focus on the Republican and Democratic conventions instead, along comes the Congressional Budget Office to remind us of…

by The City Wire staff - August 19, 2012 4:40 pm

The real price of ethanol

Record-high corn prices should be sending a clear message to policy makers in Washington: Requiring people to put corn-based fuel in their gas tanks is a bad idea. Since 2005,…

by The City Wire staff - August 14, 2012 6:25 pm

The community college solution

About 13 million Americans are looking for work. An additional 8 million have settled for part-time jobs. Yet almost half of U.S. employers have said they have difficulty filling positions….

by The City Wire staff - August 8, 2012 6:55 pm

Deer infestation solutions

Looking over the American landscape, it’s hard to think of a more insidious threat to forests, farms and wildlife, not to mention human health and safety, than deer. Yet when…

by The City Wire staff - July 6, 2012 2:29 pm

U.S. fiscal fix can’t wait

Today’s (July 6) dismal jobs report is another sobering reminder that the U.S. economy is stuck, if not headed in reverse. Employers added a modest 80,000 jobs in June, falling…

by The City Wire staff - July 5, 2012 6:35 pm

Is the Supreme Court conservative?

Will the real U.S. Supreme Court please stand up? Impeccable liberal sources, including the editorial page of the New York Times, insist that the court is radically activist and conservative,…

by The City Wire staff - July 4, 2012 3:15 pm

Founding Fathers’ debt

As Americans pause this Fourth of July to reflect on their independence, it’s worth casting a thought across the Atlantic. One story from America’s founding era, in particular, keeps reminding…

by The City Wire staff - June 28, 2012 4:55 pm

Roberts and the health-care tax

Judges can say things politicians can’t. So it was left to U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts to use the three-letter word for the individual mandate that President Barack Obama…

by The City Wire staff - June 24, 2012 6:56 pm

Back to basics?

Conventional wisdom has it that Congressional hearings rarely shed new light and devolve quickly into a stream of sound bites that members can use in their re- election campaigns. By…

by The City Wire staff - June 18, 2012 7:05 pm

The no-tax pledge battle

“Tell me something cheerful” is how Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, has started most of the conversations I’ve had with him over the past 20 years….