It’s a big-government-dependent tool to fight climate change that was championed by Jimmy Carter, is now dominated by the French, and has never managed to compete in the marketplace. So why, exactly, do Republicans love nuclear power so much?
T.A. Frank
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Dark at the End of the Tunnel
John Derbyshire, America’s foremost reactionary, is entertainingly glum about the conservative movement and his fellow man.
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Golden Erring
Once the embodiment of America’s possibilities, California has become the embodiment of the country’s delusions.
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Green Cards for Grads
The U.S. educates brilliant students from around the world, then sends them home to work for our competitors.
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Follow-up thought…
Follow-up thought…When Joe Biden warned us last October that, early on in Obama’s presidency, there would be “a generated crisis to test the mettle of this guy,” people thought immediately of rogues in Iran, Russia or North Korea. Who’d have guessed that the biggest test of mettle would come from rogues only 225 miles up […]
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Just to be clearer
Just to be clearer…This is a completely self-indulgent post. But, for the record, let me say that I am still tremendously hopeful and enthusiastic about Obama’s presidency, even if a recent piece of mine in the Guardian might suggest otherwise. (I didn’t pen the headline, incidentally–editors write those.) That said, yes, the White House’s squishiness […]
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A FEW MORE THOUGHTS ON EFCA
A FEW MORE THOUGHTS ON EFCA: My piece on the Employee Free Choice Act for the latest issue of the Washington Monthly, which Steve commented about here, has generated some thoughtful responses in the blogosphere. I can’t get to all of the issues raised, but there are a couple of points I did want to […]
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The Little Unions That Couldn’t
Card check is worth fighting for— except for the “card check” part.
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Too Small to Fail
While the behemoths of Wall Street stumble and fall, humble local banks are doing just fine, thank you. Their surprising resilience holds a key lesson for twenty-first-century global finance.
