In San Francisco, the jobs of the future are already beginning to appear. A new company called cater2.me has gone into business providing a variety of catered lunches to businesses too small to afford a chef of their own. The New York Times reports: It’s true that these companies, which are paying engineers $100,000 or […]

While the government has been spending billions of dollars to produce a handful of sickly green jobs without much staying power, a veritable gusher of ‘brown’ jobs in traditional mining and energy extractive industries is on the brink of rejuvenating the American economy.That at least is what Joel Kotkin and his associates have discovered.  Looking […]

Anybody hungry for a dose of good news should go to Bill Glahn’s blog for a cheery story on America’s growing energy independence. Just when it seems that all the news is bad, a ray a light peeks through the clouds.  Our dependence on foreign oil, a bugaboo for Presidents dating back to Nixon, has […]

The Senator John McCain that so many of us admired before his deeply uninspiring presidential campaign in 2008 is back, this time waging war on unauthorized and inefficient government spending on defense projects.  The Vietnam war hero is specifically targeting the Senate Appropriations Committee, or, as he put it, “a handful of senior appropriators and […]

It feels like the bad old days of the Bush administration as the whole world lines up to criticize American leadership — or the lack thereof. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said the US-backed idea to leverage the EU bailout fund so that the same amount of money could bail out bigger debt disasters was […]

As longtime readers know, I’m not particularly skeptical about climate science, suitably wrapped with the inevitable cautions and caveats about complex natural systems whose history and dynamics are imperfectly understood, but I am deeply skeptical about climate policy.  Green climate policies tend to be otherworldly utopian fantasies like the global carbon treaty or heavy handed, […]

In American states, past voting trends and the number of electoral college votes up for grabs shape presidential candidates’ campaigns, as Gerald Seib describes in the WSJ: The important thing to remember about a presidential election is that it isn’t a contest to win the popular vote nationwide. It is a contest to win in […]

Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Al-Tayeb, the head of one of the most important centers of learning in the Islamic world, wrote a remarkably tolerant article in the Egyptian government daily newspaper Al-Ahram back in June. Translated excerpts of the article recently appeared at MEMRI: The Koran, which Many Muslims know by heart, affirms that had God […]

In an interesting article on the federal law code, the Wall Street Journal discusses the weakening of criminal intent standards: For centuries, a bedrock principle of criminal law has held that people must know they are doing something wrong before they can be found guilty. The concept is known as mens rea, Latin for a […]

The riots that scarred much of London last month came as a shock to the British public. As often happens with social upheavals of this type, the chattering class has spent the past few weeks discussing the cause of the riots, and has finally settled on a simple explanation: single mothers. The New York Times […]