Month: July 2013

Thinking Outside the Box

People should read John Buntin’s piece on how the LAPD is stopping gang violence and reducing violent crime without resorting to the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk insanity. When we talk about crime, we tend to talk about...

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Let’s Get Empirical

Gee. Who could have predicted that people would be spending half what they used to to buy health insurance under ObamaCare? That’s the situation in New York State. And everywhere new rates have been announced, those rates...

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Cordray Confirmation is a Big Deal

On July 17, 2011, President Barack Obama announced Richard Cordray as his nominee to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. When the Republicans balked at confirming him (or any other possible candidate) to head the...

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Netanyahu Mantra is Getting Stale

I don’t think Benjamin Netanyahu can answer every criticism by trying to change the subject to Iran and Syria anymore. It looks like the European Union has almost completely lost its patience. Already, the E.U. has banned...

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