Tim Fernholz

House Republicans are excited by a Congressional Budget Office report that suggests stimulus spending would move too slowly to affect the economy; it hasn’t been released to the public yet so far as I can see, but we can deduce a few observations from the reporting around it. Keep in mind the report doesn’t seem […]

Though I try to avoid cable news as much as possible, it’s impossible at the gym, and so last night I was treated to three networks at once hyper-analyzing a joke VP Biden made at the swearing-in of White House senior staff yesterday — it was a crack about John Roberts flubbing the presidential oath […]

The impeccable T.A. Frank has a new piece on the Employee Free Choice Act that does two interesting things. First, it describes in detail the problems faced by workers who try to organize, problems that most people are simply not familiar with. One of the main reasons that legislation to support union members is so […]

Jeez, here they go again. Karen Tumulty’s tick-tock really captures the madness of Caroline Kennedy’s decision to take herself out of contention for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat: 7 p.m. or thereabouts: The New York Post reports she has told Governor David Paterson that she is withdrawing her name from consideration for the Senate seat being […]

An upcoming Heritage Foundation event: Is the Bolshevik Design Dead? Speaker: Viktor Suvorov Former Soviet Intelligence Officer and Author of The Chief Culprit: Stalin’s Grand Design To Start World War II Host: Lee Edwards, Ph.D.Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought, The Heritage Foundation and Chairman, The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation I get the impression the […]

Alvaro Vargas Llosa has an article at TNR that is really quite misguided. Vargas Llosa urges Obama to resist his “socialistic intellectual formation” and not “throw money at the recession.” His concern is that supply of money has increased as the Fed and other government agencies have tried to deal with the recession, because in […]

Tim Geithner’s confirmation hearings began today, with some focus on his tax-filing mistakes, but even more scrutiny on his role in the bailout, which, while it has stabilized the financial system somewhat, has also allowed a lot of banks to get a capital injection in exchange for little help to the overall economy. His replies […]

Israel’s High Court of Justice overthrows the decision by a parliament committee that would have barred Arab political parties from participating in upcoming elections. Congratulations to Israel for demonstrating that their liberal institutions have the ability to check the discriminatory impulses of their legislative assembly — though the proposal came from ultra-nationalists, the committee that […]

UPDATE: As commenters point out, my internets are bad. Here is the accurate link, continue feeling slapped. Weirdly, I somehow was sent to the Change.gov site from the new White House website. Apologies to Ambinder. Matt catches Ambinder missing out on Bill Clinton’s economic resume. Now it’s my turn! Ambinder, checking out the new website, […]

So Barack Obama has gone out of his way to reach out to Sen. John McCain, his opponent throughout months of bitter campaigning. In a replacement for the churlishness of the traditional post-election political rivalry, last night Obama hosted a dinner in McCain’s honor, one in a series that also celebrated Colin Powell and Joe […]