Author: HughS

It turns out that restructuring the European lifestyle may be much more difficult than many EU members expected. ARIS -- Across Western Europe, the "lifestyle superpower," the assumptions and …

Perusing the news today, it appears that there is still a serious systemic problem unfolding in the EU that could make the 2008 financial panic look like a picnic. …

Via our commenter kathie comes this remark by President Obama about the execution and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. "Obviously, the loss of Daniel Pearl was …

Clarice at Tom Maguire's blog may have saved some lives tonight with the following advice: Whatever...Let's follow Rush's advice--Don't drink every time an announcer says, "This is not a …

The primary elections in Kentucky, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and Oregon will be fascinating to watch. A few thoughts on the races I find most interesting: Pennsylvania Democratic Senate Primary: Sestak …

It is becoming ever clearer that the macroeconomic experiment know as the European Union is coming apart. May 15 (Bloomberg) -- The euro fell to its lowest level since …

Liberal blogger Greg Sargent has an interesting piece out today about Jonathan Alter's new book "The Promise". I haven't read the book but Sargent offers some interesting teasers from …

The opinion editors at the Washington Post are concerned about the level of polarization in our national politics. This concern seems to pop up every time establishment pols inside …

The world's largest entity in terms of gross revenue had a bad month in April. The IRS collected only $245 billion dollars in April 2010 compared with collections of …

Is the failure of the great Keynesian experiment in public spending and government intervention in national economies about to get some traction in the popular media? In other words, …