No Bailouts for Government Unions
New York City’s Department of Investigation (DOI) announced Friday that it is looking into reports that some Sanitation Department supervisors told workers to slow their snow removal efforts as a protest against budget cuts. DOI spokeswoman Diane Struzzi told Businessweek: “What we are looking at is whether there was intentional misconduct relating to the snow […]
Hating Ourselves to Death
Elizabeth Scalia– A few years ago I had occasion to spend a few days in Vienna. The beautiful city of museums and music remains a favorite but a forlorn one; its charming avenues and architecture and nightly concerts could not fully distract from the sleepy sense of diminishment that hung over the city, like the […]
Greece: Wall to be built along Turkish border
Minister says country can’t take in anymore illegal immigrants; says barrier will be similar to wall built on US-Mexico border. Greece announced that it plans to build a wall along its border with Turkey to keep out illegal migrants, according to news reports Saturday. Citizen Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis said “Greek society has reached its […]
Now is the time to sell, real estate consultant says
Mary Umberger, Chicago– People who have been delaying putting their homes on the market should do it soon because prices may go down 5% to 8% as banks unload a glut of repossessed properties, Steve Harney tells agents. Sell now, avoid (some) regret later. That was Steve Harney’s advice recently to a roomful of real […]
QE2: Another Fed Backfire? Capitalize on the Monetary Folly
David Dreman– Big Ben has done it again, but what he’s done he didn’t mean to do. QE2 is the moniker affixed to the Fed’s second round of quantitative easing, a salvo to jump-start the economy and stave off deflation. Last month the Fed, in a bit of monetary magicianship, began buying the first of […]
Top Ten Side Effects of 2010
Within days of Obamacare’s passage, The Heritage Foundation began documenting all of the ill Side Effects the new law was inflicting on our country. It has been The Foundry’s most popular feature by far. The Side Effects index page is the third highest trafficked page on the blog. Continuing our Top Ten in 2010 series, […]
Side Effects: Ball Drop Brings Bad News for Consumer-Driven Health Plan Users
This year, as the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve, Americans who depend on health savings accounts (HSAs) to make medical expenditures more affordable will experience first-hand yet another adverse side effect of Obamacare. Starting in 2011, American families will no longer be able to use HSAs to purchase over-the-counter drugs, such as cough […]
The Education Year in Review – 2010
As we enter a new year, education reformers will look back on 2010 as the year when education in the United States began to return its focus to the needs of students instead of to the demands of adults. During this past year, public attention to the barriers of educational opportunity created by special interests […]
Profiling Works – Profile Muslims or Die
Here is how our present airline security measures have worked and failed, and will progress in the future: 1. We are required to remove footwear because of the failed Muslim shoe bomber Richard Reid. 2 We are severely limited to bringing liquids on planes because of multiple, failed Muslim attempts at destroying airliners. Civilians don’t […]
Science: Another Ice Age?
From Time Magazine 1974: In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada’s wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and […]
Islamic Terror? This is Worse!
A new threat is emerging – or re-emerging – that moves terror beyond even what has been created by blood-thirsty radical Islamists who want a worldwide caliphate under control of the Shariah and the Qu’ran, says a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The new multi-national threat comes from Muslims who want a stateless society […]
