Outside the Beltway

DC schools superintendent Michelle Rhee has radically transformed the system for the better. Naturally, the teachers unions want her gone.

There isn’t much doubt that China is manipulating its currency for competitive advantage. What can be done about it?

A renowned sports economist argues that black quarterbacks are treated differently than their white counterparts.

The media is now starting to look at it’s own role in the whole Koran burning story, but the truth is that there really wasn’t any way they could’ve ignored the story.

Democrats are sending some of their candidates to the Death Panels.

Four news items and articles about China that have caught my eye.

For many reasons, the housing market is unlikely to fully recover for the foreseeable future.

Last night’s primaries continued the anti-establishment narrative we’ve seen so far this year, and put both of the statewide offices in Florida in play.

The signs point to 2010 being an even worse year for Democrats than 1994.

It’s beginning to look like initial reports that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill had been “cleaned up” may not be true after all.

Bill Kristol and friends are trying to make it politically toxic to criticize Israel.

Are government imposed mandates making it impossible for businesses to justify hiring new workers?

Despite 9.5% unemployment, American firms are struggling to find qualified applicants for job openings.

German government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007.

How does the Electoral College influence policy and campaigning?

The latest GDP numbers are nothing but bad news for Democrats.

Now that the flood of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig has been staunched, some are arguing that the prophesied environmental catastrophe was greatly overblown.

800,000 gallons of oil have leaked from a pipeline into a creek that flows into the Kalamazoo River. BP is not involved.

Is Andrew Breitbart the new William F. Buckley, Jr?

Most research shows that unemployment benefits/insurance increases the duration of unemployment.

Oakland marijuana growers worry that regulation will turn their product from a niche specialty to a mass market commodity.

A bizarre rant in American Spectator contains some interesting thoughts about the nature of America’s political elite.

American businesses are sitting on a big pile of cash, and giving no indication that they have any intention of spending it any time soon.

The Department of the Interior has, unwisely and unnecessarily, reimposed the ban on deep water offshore drilling.

Sarah Palin’s Political Action Committee is starting to look more and more like the beginnings of a run for the White House.

What exactly is it about air conditioning that has some people so upset ?

The Democratic Senate primary in Arkansas may have been influenced by questionable poll results from Research 2000.

The most shocking news about Larry King’s retirement announcement was the realization that he was still on the air.

“It’s illogical to hunt a species to extinction.” – Spock

Another poll brings bad news for the White House.

A Federal Judge in Louisiana has told the Obama Administration that it can’t ban offshore drilling in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Law schools are artificially raising student grades, sometimes retroactively, to make them more competitive on the job market.

President Obama continues to suffer politically as a result of the oil spill crisis.

The Florida Senate race has taken a turn that few people expected thanks to the political impact of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.