Great Job! You’re Fired

Companies are usually rewarded when they do a good job. They make more money. They gain more customers. They even win awards from their peers. But apparently that’s not the case when a company’s business is improving big-city education. In too many cities...

Bull Fighting: Are We in a Bull or Bear Market?

I’ve made some good money in the strong recovery that began April 4, and you probably have, too. And all along I’ve been saying it’s nothing but a great big wonderful bear market rally. I must say, I’ve caught myself this week hoping the market...

Bush’s Environmental Guacamole

Christie Todd Whitman has committed some of the Bush administration’s biggest gaffes to date — most infamously, her ill-fated crusade to drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions at all costs to thwart alleged global warming. Bush Republicans are right...

Downey Supporters Only Half Right

Award-winning actor Robert Downey Jr. has been arrested again. Before Tuesday’s arrest on drug charges, he already faced the possibility of nearly five years in prison for charges stemming from his arrest last November in Palm Springs. Now state officials have...

The Duty to Die

Our betters have been telling us how to live our lives for so long that it is only the next logical step for them to tell us when to die. We have grown so used to meekly accepting their edicts, even on what words we can and cannot use — “swamp” has...

Republicans to Planet Earth: Drop Dead

” … Here, the environment is not an issue — it’s an ethic. It’s protecting creation.” In criticizing President Bush’s environmental policy, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., made that pronouncement. Echoing a similar...