A new proposal by a highly-respected economist would centralize the financial regulatory powers shared by over a hundred federal and state agencies in a new single government authority.  more

Lou Dobbs is saying he might run for president in 2012. As one who worked for Dobbs a decade ago, I wish to point out that his management skills and style were unequal to running a company with some 100 employees. As president of the United States, he would be a disaster.  more

NASA’s projected budget will not allow for any meaningful manned exploration beyond Earth. Now is the time to allow the private sector a role in space exploration and development.  more

In Ron Paul’s new book End the Fed, his explanation for many U.S. economic and political ills is that the Federal Reserve caused or enabled them. Nothing good will come of Ron Paul’s book and his campaign of demonizing the Fed.  more

Republicans should rally vocally for universal healthcare coverage – and then work hard to remove the tax and regulatory barriers that impinge on the market for private health insurance. Universal coverage can be a goal of public policy without being a federal program or mandate.   more

Obama has been trying to bring about major changes in both energy and healthcare policy, on top of his massive stimulus spending. In so doing, Obama has spread his political capital thin, let his energies dissipate and largely left it to Congress to figure out what’s going to be in all this landmark legislation.  more

The Pew Research Center has come out with a poll comparing scientists’ attitudes (on scientific and other matters) with those of the general public. Among its revelations was that Republicans comprise 6 percent of scientists.   more

A talent and affinity for bureaucratic infighting pervaded Rumsfeld’s career, and ultimately degraded his performance as defense secretary. Eager to assert control over the massive Pentagon bureaucracy, he shut out views that contradicted his own.  more

An unfortunate tendency on the right these days is to attempt to win arguments through tendentious and shallow redefinitions of what constitutes “left” and “right.”
That tendency flared up in recent days with efforts to rebut any notion that the Holocaust Museum shooter was a right-wing extremist and, instead, to rebrand him as a leftist –   more

Space policy has seen its share of political realignments and role reversals over the decades. From the fifties into the seventies, the Democrats were the party of space enthusiasm, while the Republicans tended to fret about the cost and purpose of it all. John F. Kennedy decided to send a man to the moon; Dwight   more