Peter Hannaford
In most cities where they had been camping, the “Occupy” people have drifted away, no longer welcome to create tent cities — even in New York, where it all started, or in Oakland, where well-organized anarchists (not an oxymoron in…
Years ago the Democrats learned that the surest way to win a tight election was to have just the right number of dead people ready to vote. It worked in Texas in 1948 and Illinois in 1960 and may have…
Last January, with typical understatement, President Obama proclaimed, in his State of the Union address, that alternative “clean” energy would be “our generation’s Sputnik moment,” and that it would be “an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet…
Efforts to create new American jobs and make the nation more secure seem to involve one step forward, one step (sometimes, two) back. Consider one week’s news on this front: The Good. Because the high yen makes exporting unprofitable and…
Soon after the death of Kim Jong-il was announced, U.S. television audiences were treated to many clips of North Koreans keening and wailing over the passing of The Dear Leader. Since he had died (on a train) two days before…
“I’m in the egg-laying business,” Henny-Penny said, “but the world champions are the members of the college of cardinals of global warming meeting in Durban South Africa right now. They came to drum up a successor to the Kyoto Accord…
By the time the housing bubble was reaching its peak in mid-2006, developers were gobbling up farm land to build subdivision houses at the rate of nearly four million acres a year. When the bubble burst, the housing market collapsed…
The other day in Honolulu, President Obama told the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit that “we” have gotten “a little lazy.” His specific example was that “we” have not been working hard enough to attract foreign investments. He didn’t suggest…
When he was elected California’s oldest governor last November, Jerry Brown wasn’t the same man as “Governor Moonbeam,” the state’s youngest governor (1975-83). In the meanwhile he’d spent time in a Zen monastery, run for president, and served as state…
Nearly four years after environmentalists launched a campaign to kill farming in California’s huge Central Valley, ostensibly to save a two-inch fish, the Delta Smelt, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled that the federal government’s restrictions on farm water…
