Obama Punts, Delays Pipeline Decision

By: Nick Ottens (Diary)  |  November 10th at 02:27 PM  | 

So this is leadership. Reuters reports that President Barack Obama plans to announce on Thursday that his administration will explore an alternative route for a Canada-Texas oil pipeline, delaying final approval until after the 2012 presidential election. The $7 billion Keystone XL project is designed to carry oil—the equivalent of more than a million barrels of oil per day—from tar fields in Alberta to refineries | Read More »

Government Workers of the World Unite!

By: Nick Ottens (Diary)  |  February 2nd at 12:55 PM  | 

The Economist reports that the past thirty years have been dismal for the labor movements of the world. In the United States, just 7 percent of the private sector workforce belongs to a union today, down from a third in 1979. In Britain, the decline was similarly dramatic. Across the developed world, less than one in every five workers is still a union member. There | Read More »

Republican Governors Champion Education Reform

By: Nick Ottens (Diary)  |  January 14th at 12:48 PM  | 

Even if education standards in most of the United States continue to decline while costs skyrocket, reformers are continually cast aside as the antagonists of teachers and public schools alike. At least two governors are aggressively contending that assertion, suggesting that tenure should be abolished and merit pay introduced. In New Jersey, Republican Governor Chris Christie, who is coping with the legacy of decades of | Read More »