The latest Census tells us that the South and West are America’s fastest-growing regions. This 2010 headline is not surprising. It could have been written for every census since 1940. In the past ten years, the South grew 14.3 percent, … read more
From Matthias Shapiro: “One of the more entertaining themes running around the media these days is that the almost entirely Democratic passage of the health care reform bill is pretty standard issue for major social legislation. After all, the theory … read more
My former colleague at Yale, Paul Kennedy, had a long article in The New Republic last week, entitled “Back to Normal.” It replayed his old argument on the rise and fall of great powers, in this case positing that America’s … read more
WikiLeaks touts itself as an organization made up of unpaid volunteers dedicated to nothing more than the public good. Last summer, the group claimed to operate on a budget of about $200,000, and founder Julian Assange was said to be … read more
As I have written before, the Obama administration’s fixation on electric cars is scandalous, taking money from the poor and middle class to subsidize well-off environmentalists who want to drive a green vanity car. Well, we can add another chapter … read more
