“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have sense enough to do without my persuading them,” Harry Truman once lamented. “That’s all the powers of the President amount to.” As usual, the plain-speaking Truman got it right: presidential power is the …
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On the stage of LiveAid in 1985, U2 broke through to a larger audience with an emotional performance of a song that declared, “I’m wide awake – I’m not sleeping.” It presaged decades of activism for the band’s charismatic frontman, Bono. The plight of Africans has long been at the …
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I’ve studied climate and its effects on life—all kinds of life —for more than four decades, starting in 1968. Along the way, among other things, I developed a computer model of forests that in the 1990s we used to forecast the effects of climate on jack pine forests in Michigan …
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Editor’s note: The following op-ed originally appeared in City Journal. The political lines are now starkly drawn. The country is polarized, and the stakes are high. Defying millions of protesters’ demands for his resignation in a fiery speech late Tuesday night, Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi refused to resign and offered …
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Friday, forecasters expect the Labor Department will report the economy added 167,000 jobs in May. This is in line with the pace of recent months but hardly enough to lower unemployment down to acceptable levels. In the first quarter, GDP was up only 2.4 percent, due to stronger consumer spending …
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Editor’s note: Watch Patrick Dorinson on “Stossel” on Fox Business Network, Thursday, May 9 at 9 p.m. ET where he’ll tackle the topic “What Ever Happened to GRIT?” Dear Millennial Generation, There is an old saying that says “make apologies not excuses.” And if anyone deserves an apology, not excuses …
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Why are you not up in arms, New York Times and Washington Post? Why so quiet, Cleveland Plain Dealer and Sacramento Bee? Weekly newspaper editors, students at the Columbia School of Journalism, government employees who have quietly revealed wrongdoing to reporters – why are you not raising hell about what …
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Many news organizations don’t really care what their readers think. If you are conservative, this isn’t exactly a news flash. Whether it’s bashing Tea Parties, promoting President Obama, or undermining faith, old school journalists take every chance they can to show disdain for the right. Sometimes they simply tell them …
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I have had a very good life. I have also had the great good fortune (or is it misfortune?) to have been married — and divorced — four times. After several decades on this Earth I’ve learned a few things about love and romance. Here are five things not to …
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WASHINGTON – It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is not true, however, that the Republican split is philosophical and fundamental. And that a hopelessly divided GOP is therefore headed for decline, perhaps …
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