Iran’s nuclear program is struggling: First it was the Stuxnet computer virus and now it’s inadequate machinery. The Washington Post has the story: Although Iran continues to stockpile enriched uranium in defiance of U.N. resolutions, two new reports portray the country’s nuclear program as riddled with problems as scientists struggle to keep older equipment working.At […]

The outlook for young lawyers keeps getting worse.  Those six-figure starting salaries for first year associates doing glorified office work could soon be a thing of the past. From the Wall Street Journal: Law firms often treat the first two years of an attorney’s career as a sort of apprenticeship, albeit a well-paid one: the […]

Will Wall Street save public sector unions?  The U.S. Post Office certainly hopes so. While union representatives were standing at the front door of America’s major banks, shouting about corporate greed and holding signs and blowing horns, the National Association of Letter Carriers chiefs were slipping through the back entrance for advice on restructuring their […]

At last, Hugo Chavez has made something grow: the number of his countrymen leaving Venezuela. From the Wall Street Journal: Waves of white-collar Venezuelans have fled the country’s high crime rates, soaring inflation and expanding statist controls, for destinations ranging from Canada to Qatar. The top U.S. destinations are Miami, a traditional shopping mecca for […]

More evidence of the Obama’s green failures.Are the OWS protestors announcing “We Are The 99 Percent” really representing the 99 percent? Does that make these demonstrations part of a class war?Let investment in the disintegrating blue social model begin: Matthew Yglesias explains the lunacy of city-owned parking garages. “Don’t contract out management of garages to […]

“It is not just a dangerous escalation. This is part of a pattern of dangerous and reckless behavior by the Iranian government”, said President Barack Obama recently. Visibly angry and frustrated, Obama pledged that his Administration would take steps to ensure that Iran “pays a price.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton branded the most recent […]

Years ago in the happy, halcyon years of the Clinton administration when NATO was bombing Serbia and liberal internationalists were celebrating the end of history, my email inbox at the Council on Foreign Relations was overwhelmed by a rash of first hundreds and then thousands of angry messages, largely identical, from Serbs.  The primitive email […]

Indian call centers have long been the most visible symbols of the outsourcing of American jobs — even inspiring the premise of a primetime NBC comedy. Now many of these call centers are being confronted with a familiar problem: outsourcing. The Washington Post reports that Indian call-center companies are increasingly moving their business abroad: But […]

The debate over the Keystone XL pipeline continues to be a headache for Obama: On the one side are his environmental supporters, who are committed to killing what they understand will be a dirty, environmentally-disastrous project. On the other hand is the opportunity to create as many as 20,000 jobs for Americans. The Washington Post […]

Flannery O’Connor was once approached by someone who complained about the way academic writing programs discouraged so many promising young writers from launching careers.  “Not enough,” was O’Connor’s reply. She was on the wrong side of history; America is a land of enablers, and technology is about to enable a huge wave of new authors […]