Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The Flexible Fuel Answer to OPEC

It costs an extra $100 to enable a car to run on biofuels or natural gas. Washington should mandate the tweak...

A Middle East Policy in Shambles

As President Obama launches another war, he knows no one is going to demagogue him the way Senator Obama did President Bush...

Bottom up vs. top down

...[T]here are fads in math education and the rest of education that are bad ideas. Do we really want those fads to take over. Or do we want competition...?

Memo to the General: Free Speech Doesn’t Kill People, Jihadists Kill People

General Petraeus should stick to the job at which he is skilled: destroying the enemy and creating the conditions under which American troops can accomplish their mission and return home. We already have enough flawed analysis coming from politicians...

And if Obama had said no…?

...[W]hat if Obama had shocked the world and declared he was one (term) and done? Who, on the Democratic side, would have stepped into the void...?

Stephen Haber on the John Batchelor Show

GUESTS: Co-host Larry Kudlow, CNBC and 77 WABC; John Fund, WSJ; Stephen Haber, Hoover Institution; Reza Kahlili, author of "A Time to Betray"...

Haber Says Moderate Rainfall Leads to Farms, Democracies

Stephen Haber, a professor at Stanford University, talks about his research into the impact rainfall may have on the development of governments...

Taylor Says Less Government Spending Can Boost Growth

John Taylor talks about plans by House Republicans to release a 2012 federal budget proposal tomorrow that may call for more than $4 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years...

At War with Donald Rumsfeld: Chapter 3 of 5

Valuing Teachers

How much is a good teacher worth...?

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and “the Day of Rage” that Wasn’t

While unrest has rattled the Middle East in recent months, Saudi Arabia has taken all necessary measures to maintain stability within its own borders. Its success in doing so stems from two factors: oil wealth and tradition...