by Daniel J. Mitchell The weeks since Election Day have provided nauseating confirmation of Mark Twain’s observation: “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” Exhibit A is the “omnibus” spending bill Harry Reid is trying to push through the Senate. This monstrosity contains about 6,500 earmarks — special provisions inserted on...
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By Donald Kirk | The Christian Science Monitor SEOUL — North Korea is building up the elite special forces used for quick strikes against South Korea and supporting the North’s nuclear and missile programs, Seoul’s defense ministry says. In a white paper that comes out every two years, the defense ministry said North Korean...
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McClatchy Newspapers Political lies, the war in Afghanistan, drug violence in Mexico. These were some of the major themes that McClatchy journalists explored during 2010. Many of these stories were told in video as well as words. Please take a look at our selection of the best McClatchy videos of 2010 videos of 2010...
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by Daniel J. Ikenson The Obama administration has proposed changing several Commerce Department antidumping procedures. Those changes would expand the scope for findings of dumping and precipitate a surge in antidumping actions. The evolution of U.S. antidumping policy is marked by distinct inflection points corresponding to legal and administrative changes favorable to protection-seekers. In...
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By George Pawlaczyk and Beth Hundsdorfer | Belleville News Democrat CHESTER, Ill. — In less than three years, nearly $10 million in state taxpayer-funds has been awarded in workers’ compensation payments to employees at Illinois’ Menard Correctional Center where 389 guards and other workers — more than half the maximum security lockup’s entire staff...
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BY Kit EatonToday Ford’s just unleashed its first mobile Sync app for its digitally connected cars. It’s called Destinations, and lets you send traffic and navigation info to your car from your mobile phone. The app even pre-warns you about your departure time and estimated arrival time based on what it knows about traffic....
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By Dianne Stafford | Kansas City Star Welcome to the “adhocratic” work force. Not familiar with that term? It describes an evolution in the job market: As the economy recovers from the recession, more and more workers in the 2011 labor force will be hired on an ad hoc basis, teaming up in work...
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by Daniel Griswold President Obama can continue the success of the bipartisan tax extension bill he signed last week by working with the new Congress in 2011 to advance the long-stalled U.S. trade agenda. Trade should be an important component of the congressional agenda in the new year. Robust trade growth, of imports as...
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By Dion Nissenbaum | McClatchy Newspapers KABUL, Afghanistan — Citing evidence that Taliban insurgents have expanded their reach across Afghanistan, aid groups and security analysts in the country are challenging as misleading the Obama administration’s recent claim that insurgents now control less territory than they did a year ago. “Absolutely, without any reservation, it...
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by Alan Reynolds When President Obama announced a two-year stay of execution for taxpayers on Dec. 7, he made it clear that he intends to spend those two years campaigning for higher marginal tax rates on dividends, capital gains and salaries for couples earning more than $250,000. “I don’t see how the Republicans win...
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