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Jim McTague‘s last “D.C. Current” column for Barron’s offers little comfort for those seeking good news about the future of American politics and public policy. My pessimism is grounded in…
What’s more likely to happen… Warren Buffett accepts Rhino publisher Roy Carroll’s $16 million bid to buy the hard-left N&R? Or former Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston —a supporter of…
The Left loves to berate the “rich” for not paying their “fair share” and for simply being rotten meanies who’ve won life’s lottery and don’t give a darn about the…
At last night’s city council meeting, there was a big brouhaha over whether or not a building should sell naming rights. The Asheville Art Museum is in a lot of…
Thomas Donlan‘s latest editorial commentary for Barron’s delves into Burger King’s plans to move operations north of the Canadian border. Tim Hortons earned more than $425 million last year, which…
What, you hadn’t heard that Warren Buffett is an economic traitor? Of course, he isn’t. But that’s the label the Obama administration has been applying to companies practicing a tactic…
Warren Buffett, who thinks Americans should pay more taxes, has no problem making money from a deal designed to help Burger King avoid paying higher taxes. Bloomberg reports. Warren Buffett’s…
Kevin Williamson‘s latest National Review Online column takes a Nobel Prize-winning University of Texas physicist to task for making poor arguments in the political arena. The problem is that scientific…
Richard Epstein devotes a column for the Hoover Institution’s “Defining Ideas” to tackling some of the ideas French economist Thomas Piketty has put forward to address income inequality. One of…
Victor Davis Hanson explains for National Review Online readers why the diversity “industry” in American higher education is causing problems. Diversity has become corporatized on American campuses, with scores of…
Roy Cordato explained recently why it makes sense to consider subsidies and penalties together when considering how government skews the market for various energy sources. Those of you interested in…
The latest Bloomberg Businessweek detects a noticeable uptick in the amount of time corporate CEOs (like the pictured Brian Moynihan of Bank of America) are spending in the nation’s capital.…