Ed Feulner More Money, Less Knowledge
This year, the economy promises to make Independence Day less explosive than usual.
Jul 2, 2009 - 5:09:39 PM
Ed Feulner A Czar Too Far
President Barack Obama recently introduced Kenneth Feinberg as America's "compensation czar." He'll oversee executive pay at firms that have taken federal bailout money. Feinberg "will have broad discretion to set the salaries and bonuses for their five most senior executives and their 20 most highly paid employees," The New York Times reported.
Jun 24, 2009 - 1:36:34 PM
Ed Feulner Government Motors: A Dead-End Deal
As a rock-ribbed conservative, I seldom agree with the socialist president of Venezuela. But it happened last week.
Jun 16, 2009 - 11:32:43 AM
Ed Feulner Mr. President, Mine that Popularity
Popularity polls can be interesting. But they don't really provide much substance. For example, in the final RealClearPolitics.com average before the 2008 election, John McCain enjoyed a 52 percent approval rating. That, plus $4, will get the senator a mocha at Starbucks. It didn't get him into the White House.
Jun 9, 2009 - 2:05:35 PM
Ed Feulner A Sure-Fire Economy Killer
Some things, virtually everyone agrees on. We all want a cleaner environment. And we all want a booming economy.
May 27, 2009 - 11:53:03 AM
Ed Feulner Salvaging Social Security
Following the news from Washington has never been easy. But there's an added challenge today: the problem of large numbers. It's almost impossible for anyone to really grasp the idea of a billion, let alone a trillion. Even the experts get confused.
May 18, 2009 - 5:46:43 PM
Ed Feulner Misunderstanding Kemp
While mourning a close friend, it's interesting to hear what others have to say about him. As expected, the recent passing of Jack Kemp generated glowing tributes from commentators both right and left.
May 12, 2009 - 12:15:20 PM
Ed Feulner A Cure Worse Than The Disease
Emily Morley got some very bad news in March 2006. Her cancer had spread, the doctor informed the 67-year-old Canadian. She would need to see an oncologist.
May 5, 2009 - 10:24:12 AM
Ed Feulner School Choice & A Lesson in Hypocrisy
Even for those of us who live and breathe politics, the workings of the U.S. Senate are often difficult to understand.
Apr 28, 2009 - 10:48:25 AM
Ed Feulner Battle for the Border
Almost two years ago I visited southern California to watch the U.S. Border Patrol at work. The federal government was building a fence and, with help from the National Guard, federal agents were stepping up patrols and slowing the flow of illegal aliens across our southern border.
Apr 16, 2009 - 11:02:31 AM
Ed Feulner The Claw-Back Calamity
The drive to "claw back" executive bonuses is waning in Washington. Lawmakers are softening a House-passed bill to tax away big-money bonuses paid at bailed-out companies. Some felt the rhetoric had gone over the top.
Apr 1, 2009 - 10:24:25 PM
Ed Feulner Shine a Light on Spending
Work in Washington long enough, and you're bound to agree with almost everyone at least once. Even socialists occasionally have good ideas.
Mar 24, 2009 - 11:05:42 AM
Ed Feulner An Economic Fate We Can Avoid
It's not always enjoyable to look in a mirror. But we can learn a lot when we do. Perhaps it's time for the United States to give it a try.
Mar 17, 2009 - 10:48:05 AM
Ed Feulner Pinching the Wrong Pennies
Across the country, folks have been cutting back. Not here in Washington, though.
Mar 10, 2009 - 10:39:36 AM
Ed Feulner Preventing the Return of $4 Gasoline
You may have forgotten what you did on vacation last summer -- but you probably remember how much it cost to fill your gas tank for the trip.
Mar 3, 2009 - 12:58:02 PM
Ed Feulner Still Waiting for Open Government
"Today does not mark the end of our economic troubles," President Barack Obama announced as he signed the so-called stimulus bill. "But it does mark the beginning of the end."
Feb 24, 2009 - 11:53:18 AM
Ed Feulner The Power of Zero
In Washington, politicians like to seek common ground. So let's begin by noting that many from both parties agreed with President Barack Obama's recent warning: "A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession, a less robust recovery, and a more uncertain future."
Feb 11, 2009 - 9:54:19 AM
Ed Feulner A Sham "Stimulus"
If there's any good news from this recession, it may be this: We've seen how Washington works. The picture is so ugly, it may be enough to spark real reform in the years ahead. Here's what's been going on.
Feb 4, 2009 - 10:27:59 AM
Ed Feulner A Two-Step Plan for Economic Success
Shortly before Inauguration Day, President-elect Barack Obama refused to comment on Israel's battle with Hamas. The United States has only one president at a time, he said.
Jan 22, 2009 - 9:47:32 AM
Ed Feulner Health-Care by Committee
A camel, they say, is a horse designed by committee. To take the expression further, let's call it a committee of experts. After all, only "experts" could take something as graceful as a horse and replace it with something as difficult as a camel.
Dec 30, 2008 - 1:21:59 PM
Ed Feulner Economic Elixir: A Coded Approach
Back in the 1990s President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair crafted what they called a "third way" of governing. Supposedly this approach would be neither liberal nor conservative, but would split the difference.
Dec 17, 2008 - 11:19:10 AM
Ed Feulner The High-Stakes World of Missile Defense
As I write this column in Chicago, President-elect Obama is in the same hotel announcing his national security team. Let's take a closer look at an early challenge they'll have to face in what he calls "this uncertain world."
Dec 2, 2008 - 9:33:33 PM
Ed Feulner Bankruptcy, Not a Bailout
It's getting downright painful to open any piece of mail from a brokerage or investment firm. Virtually every mutual fund in the country is down sharply, and investors have lost tens of billions of dollars in the last few weeks alone.
Nov 25, 2008 - 4:44:15 PM
Ed Feulner Shun the "Stimulus"
According to an old joke, anyone who's driven in Manhattan knows how long a nanosecond is: It's the time between when the traffic light in front of you changes from red to green and the person behind you starts honking the horn.
Nov 18, 2008 - 12:48:32 PM
Ed Feulner Conservatism: More Relevant Than Ever
How fitting that, having campaigned on conservative themes throughout the fall, President-elect Barack Obama's acceptance speech concluded with words that should warm the heart of conservatives everywhere.
Nov 12, 2008 - 2:17:51 PM
Ed Feulner Fettered to the Federal Government
Voters frequently complain that government functions poorly -- and with good reason. However, they are good at one thing: making citizens dependant upon them.
Nov 3, 2008 - 2:38:36 PM
Ed Feulner A Problematic Prescription
Think government-run health care will cure the problem of the uninsured? Try telling that to Hawaii.
Oct 29, 2008 - 10:26:54 AM
Ed Feulner Forced Into an Unhealthy Choice
Can you imagine the government forcing you to take benefits you didn't want? How about a situation where you'd have to sue the government to get out of taking those benefits?
Oct 22, 2008 - 2:40:29 AM
Ed Feulner Financial Forensics
Two things should be clear to anyone trying to figure out the financial crisis. One is that we need to get to the bottom of what caused it and why. The second is that we can't rely on Congress to conduct such an investigation.
Oct 16, 2008 - 2:17:56 PM
Ed Feulner Federal Fuel Follies
When Union General William T. Sherman wanted to send a message to the Confederate states in 1864, he burned the city of Atlanta and marched to the sea.
Oct 8, 2008 - 12:00:51 PM
Ed Feulner California Drilling
When it comes to energy, we're supposed to pick between a clean environment and affordable fuel. But what if we could have both?
Oct 2, 2008 - 12:04:31 PM
Ed Feulner A Free-Market Fix
Nobody has ever lost money by betting on the federal government to overreact to a crisis. And as Congress weighs a bailout of the financial markets, it looks as if that's where the smart money should go yet again.
Sep 25, 2008 - 11:29:27 AM
Ed Feulner Defenses for a Dangerous World
It's easy to get a bit complacent on the security front these days. We've gone seven years without a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and we're seeing progress in Iraq as well. But we still live in a dangerous world.
Sep 17, 2008 - 12:25:24 PM
Ed Feulner India: Land on the March
MUMBAI, INDIA -- When I told friends I would be visiting India, the immediate response was, "Why? China's the country of the future!" Well, I've visited China many times. It was time to meet some of the business, academic and governmental leaders of the world's "biggest democracy," as India bills itself.
Sep 9, 2008 - 11:21:43 AM
Ed Feulner Getting More out of Foreign Aid
Everything seems so civil and cooperative -- on the surface. Every September President Bush gives a friendly welcoming speech to launch the United Nations General Assembly. Every year he's greeted by polite applause. And every year, when the real work begins, many general Assembly members will do all they can to undermine American initiatives at the U.N.
Sep 7, 2008 - 12:02:32 AM
Ed Feulner Unions: What Works -- and What Doesn't
"We must hang together, gentlemen," Benjamin Franklin warned his fellow colonists during the American Revolution, "else, we shall most assuredly hang separately."
Aug 26, 2008 - 10:46:16 AM
Ed Feulner Getting Government Out of the Way
It's time, as they say, for some good news and some bad news. First, to get it out of the way, is the bad news: The unemployment rate last month climbed to 5.7 percent, the highest it's been in four years.
Aug 24, 2008 - 10:03:32 PM
Ed Feulner A Senator in the "No"
Some years back, a newspaper comic strip showed lemmings running toward a cliff. One said to another, "Don't worry, this was a bipartisan decision."
Aug 13, 2008 - 11:23:35 AM
