High-Speed Rail, Budget Buster
If the nation is going to reduce its out-of-control spending, the first step is to stop spending money on things we do not need. Despite President Obama’s call in his ...
On Infrastructure, Time to Dump the Ideology
President Obama has proposed a new $50 billion infrastructure program that would expand and repair highways and transit systems, while refurbishing airport runways and implementing long-overdue air-traffic-control reforms to improve ...
Struck by The Strike
One of the principal elements of civil society is the rule of law. Society depends upon most people obeying the law most of the time, together with tough sanctions for ...
Highways to Hell
New Orleans and Houston have raised serious questions about the nation’s ability to evacuate effectively major urban areas in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. The more ...
Tom Daschle’s “Leave No Bureaucracy Behind” Stimulus Plan
In the Democratic party’s response to the State of the Union address, Washington governor Gary Locke noted that state and local governments are “being forced to cut vital services, from ...