Working Life

Pedro Arenas is not a person that most of the elites in the U.S.—in the mainstream media, inside the Beltway think-tanks, and in elected positions on Congress—would meet in order to understand the real crime of so-called “free trade.” For the elites, so-called “free trade” is an unassailable concept, something that is as natural and […]

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Be careful out there, friends, the bogeyman is lurking: single-payer healthcare. Or so The Wall Street Journal warns its readers today in a piece focused on the inevitable rise in health care costs–inevitable under the dumb system we have today. As pressure grows for the government to pick up more of the nation’s health-care tab, […]

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The government of Colombia is apparently riddled with people tied to the para-military forces and death squads. Or so it appears from the resignation of a top Colombian official: The foreign minister of Colombia resigned Monday as the government of President Álvaro Uribe, the Bush administration’s closest ally in South America, struggled with a scandal […]

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Congressional Quarterly has a story on the Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee’s “Frontline” program: the Democrats who are deemed most vulnerable in 2008 and, thus, get special early attention. I noticed, in particular, that Melissa Bean is on the list. Readers of this blog will note that I am not a fan of Bean since she […]

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One thing that is now clear is that Barack Obama’s charmed life is coming to an end. The press basically gave him a free ride until now…but check out this story in the L.A.Times–and expect to see more in the future: The drama began with a tiny ad in a local newspaper — a notice […]

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This is sad. So-called anti-war groups like MoveOn.Org and Win Without War are now abandoning the effort to cut off funding for the war–an effort that, in my humble opinion, is the best strategy to end the violence in Iraq and bring the troops home. This was first reported on Politico.com: Top House Democrats, working […]

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If you want to get a good encapsulated version of the moronic debate about the economy, you need not go any further than today’s editorial in The New York Times. The Times reflects the thinking of the elites, particularly the educated elites (read: New York Times reporters). The thinking in the editorial may, in fact […]

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If you are one of the 48 million Americans without health care, if your wages are barely rising or are stuck, if your debt level is crushing because you can’t keep up with the basic bills that pay for the rock bottom necessities of life, if you have no real retirement…hey, don’t worry because the […]

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Here are two related issues: the trade deficit and the announcement today that Chrysler was cutting 13,000 jobs. First, the record trade deficits (from The New York Times): WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — The United States ran a record trade deficit in 2006 for the fifth consecutive year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday in an announcement […]

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Well, I was just paraphrasing a good headline from the Economic Policy Institute (imagine that…a snappy headline from the staid but smart folks over there…keep it up). A few days ago, I wrote about the idiocy of the Senate linking tax cuts to a hike in the minimum wage. Max Sawicky at EPI had a […]

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