The Global War on Something
Even as investigators were hunting for the perpetrator of the botched "man-caused disaster" in Times Square, our cool homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano, was reassuring a frazzled nation...
View ArticleArizona's Un-American Immigration Law
If universal health coverage was part of the longstanding liberal agenda to implement a European-style welfare state in America, Arizona's tough new anti-immigrant law represents the conservative...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Menacing Militias
Flash back to the end of March, when the authorities hauled in nine members of the Hutaree, a Christian paramilitary group, and charged them with plotting a mass assassination of police officers. The...
View ArticleUnpaid Interns Are Exploited?
Do you employ unpaid student interns—college students who work in exchange for on-the-job training?If so, President Obama's Labor Department says that you're an exploiter. The government says an...
View ArticleLos Angeles Destroys Functioning Businesses in a Recession
Los Angeles has lost over 150,000 jobs in the past year, is on the brink of bankruptcy, and experienced an unexpected 16 percent decline in sales tax revenue last year. And it’s located in a state with...
View ArticleLaHood on Trains: If You Build It, They Will Come
I attended, the U.S. Department of Transportation's fourth "listening session" on transportation reauthorization in Houston on Wednesday, May 5th. The event was well attended--several hundred listened...
View ArticleThe Failure of Surveillance Cameras
New York City has thousands of police surveillance cameras, which really come in handy when a terrorist strikes. After the car bomb attempt last weekend, they captured an image of the vehicle driving...
View ArticleThe Future of Rail in California and Los Angeles?
On Tuesday night I participated in a forum on the future of rail in California and Los Angeles at the Peterson Automotive Museum in LA. Watch the discussion of the event here.
View ArticleThe Future of Transportation Funding
A common theme has emerged in discussions of reauthorizing the federal surface transportation program. Besides the much-discussed problem of insufficient infrastructure investment, we also face the...
View ArticleFixing the Way We Fund Infrastructure
My new Public Works Financing piece:While spelling out a complete revamp of the federal program is beyond the scope of this column, here are several guidelines. First, we must refocus and narrow the...
View ArticleUnstable Markets Are Pointing to a Fake Recovery
A few weeks ago, many market bulls were pointing at the steady, and impressive growth in the stock market as signs the recovery was ramping up. According to the bulls, the growth in the Dow, NASDAQ,...
View ArticleThe FCC Goes Backwards
I have an op-ed on the FCC's broadband re-classification plan on AOL today, paired with a counterpoint commentary from Megan Tady of Free Press. My piece focuses on how the plan will lead to FCC...
View ArticleBreaking Down April's Unemployment Numbers; Up to 9.9%
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released their unemployment numbers today. The headline is that unemployment is up to 9.9% in April, from 9.7% percent, where it has been all year. But, the good news is...
View ArticleWe Are Out of Money
American conservatives, particularly the fiscal variety, tend to hold up the European Union as a model of irresponsible, big-spending economic policy. But consider this: According to E.U. rules, member...
View ArticleNotes from the Oslo Freedom Forum
There is a photo buried on the website of Aftenposten, Norway’s largest circulation quality daily, of marching German troops stopping foot traffic on Karl Johans Gata, one of Oslo's main thoroughfares,...
View ArticleThe Case for Added Road Capacity
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials has released a series of three reports making the case for expanding road and freight infrastructure capacity called...
View ArticleTale of Two High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lane Projects in Virginia
The front page of the Metro Section of the Washington Post recapped the 1995 Base Realignment and Closing (BRAC) decisions as they affect traffic in Northern Virginia."Plans to move more than 19,000...
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Comparing Private Sector and Government Worker Salaries
There has been much debate over whether public sector employees are overpaid or underpaid, relative to their private sector counterparts, and how to make an "apples-to-apples" comparison of the...
View ArticleReason's Adrian Moore Discusses California and Greece on C-Span's Washington...
This morning Adrian Moore, vice president of research at Reason Foundation, discussed the parallels of the fiscal problems in California and Greece, as well as the economic stability of other U.S....
View ArticleMeeting Stupidity with Stupidity
Isaac Newton formulated three laws of motion, No. 3 being: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If he were still around, he'd propose a fourth: For every action, there is an...
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