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Kansas City is preparing a dubious New Year’s gift for area motorists, to be delivered soon: The city’s first red-light cameras.
The year gone by has been pretty awful, and many say the prospects for 2009 aren’t much better. The governor of the Bank of Spain, to cite one example, recently declared that the entire world economy was facing a financial meltdown.
The Detroit carmakers have economically run aground because their business model is broken. The most effective way to fix it is not through a Washington bailout, but through reorganization under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code.
Congress is getting ready to serve up a massive stimulus package — possibly in the neighborhood of $700 billion. Get ready for a giant Capitol Hill feeding frenzy — the mother of all earmark orgies.
The independent correspondent Michael Yon was in Baghdad late last week. He couldn’t believe the change.
The election of Barack Obama marks a historic moment, one in which all Americans can take pride. It wasn’t a landslide victory, but it was decisive.
Recently Canada and the European Union agreed to begin talks on a free-trade agreement. You didn’t hear much about that over the din of the presidential campaign. But if Barack Obama wins, this pattern — other countries forging commercial agreements that leave us out — is likely to repeat.
For decades, workers’ decisions on whether to unionize have been expressed in secret-ballot elections supervised by the National Labor Relations Board. At stake in the presidential campaign is whether to do away with that process — by passing a misnamed bill called the Employee Free Choice Act.
As always in presidential elections, we face a choice next month between two imperfect human beings, John McCain and Barack Obama. To me, McCain is the only reasonable choice.
A few weeks ago, thanks to his call for more domestic drilling to ease the energy shortage, John McCain was enjoying a slight lead in the polls. Now his fortunes are fading steadily, along with the market indexes.
When Congress wades into the financial crisis next year, lawmakers should be very humble. They have the power to make things worse as well as better. If the mood on Capitol Hill is dominated by those keen to find scapegoats, watch out.
Bob Woodward’s latest book, The War Within, chronicles the dissension inside the Bush administration as the war in Iraq careens toward chaos.
Many people who follow politics were aware of Sarah Palin well before John McCain chose her as his running mate.
On the scale that he envisions, T. Boone Pickens' plan to use wind power to replace much of the natural gas now used to generate electricity is a pipe dream.
Barack Obama issued an “emergency economic plan” recently, followed by a big speech outlining an energy plan. For somebody identified as the “change” candidate, he served up some pretty familiar stuff.
People don’t judge their well-being based on a static snapshot, no matter how good present conditions may be. They decide based on their view of the future.
The main charm of the Boy Scout camp experience is how little things have changed at the H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation.
For too long, we’ve walled off too much of our own energy endowment. It’s time to drop those barriers and start doing more to help ourselves, and rely less on the tender mercies of dubious suppliers heading odious regimes.
During his long career, Sen. John McCain has found all sorts of ways to drive Republicans nuts. He did it again the other day with a couple of pratfalls on NBC’s “Today Show.”
Barack Obama’s position on the Iraq war may have helped him win the Democratic presidential nomination. But his inability to “change” could prove a significant vulnerability in the general election.
High oil prices have finally caused the government to take action. In the capital last week, top officials said they plan to exempt about 30 oil-and-gas fields from certain taxes in a bid to encourage more output. They also moved quickly to open up two new offshore fields for more drilling. Both fields could be producing oil and gas by next year.
Can Barack Obama win in November? That may come down to whether he can win in Missouri. Deep divisions that appeared in the Democratic electorate in the state's February primary make taking Missouri tough, but not impossible. for Obama in the general election.
While the Kansas City Power & Light District must prove its long-term financial viability, from an urban-design standpoint the project is an outstanding success, a fine example of effective civic art.
In town recently to give a lecture at Fort Leavenworth’s Command and General Staff College, Colin Powell answered many questions from journalists. But the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff didn't say whether he thought the United States would win in Iraq.
The panel that oversees Kansas state universities has decreed that campuses under its control shall be weapons-free. I wonder: Will students, faculty and staff feel safer?
As often happens when violence flares in Iraq, the recent fighting in Basra prompted media accounts that were almost diametrically opposed.
I’m still digesting Barack Obama’s recent interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo.
Geraldine Ferraro sure stepped on a political land mine the other day. Barack Obama, she said, wouldn’t be where he is today if he hadn’t been black.
Well, just shoot me. Economic growth is stalling, inflation is rising, commodity prices are shooting up, the dollar is falling and a new bomb seems to go off in the credit markets every morning.
One of my first encounters with the work of William F. Buckley Jr., who died last week, was a collection of essays entitled American Conservative Thought in the Twentieth Century, which Buckley edited and published in 1970.
