Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading today (organized by topic):
Foreign Policy
- Obama Contra Niebuhr, by Joseph Loconte
“Supporters of President Obama’s ‘moral realism’ are unaware of many elements of Reinhold Niebuhr’s political theology.“
Health Care Reform
- The Health Lady Has Yet to Sing, by Kim Strassel
“ObamaCare is still no sure thing.”
- The High Cost of No Price, by Veronique de Rugy
“Economists have shown that if a good’s price is zero or decreasing, then the demand for this good will likely increase. In 2008, consumers were only directly responsible for 11.9 percent of total national healthcare expenditures, down from 43 percent in 1965, according to new data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This means that someone other than consumers pays roughly 88 percent of all healthcare costs, giving consumers little incentive to mind costs and much incentive to over-consume.”
Politics
- Slug the Obama Story ‘Disconnect’, by Peggy Noonan
“He and the public are on different pages, if not in different books.”
- One year out: President Obama’s fall, by Charlkes Krauthammer
“What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama’s approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent — and his disapproval rating is the highest ever recorded by Gallup at the beginning of an (elected) president’s second year.”
Public Policy
- The Green Con Job, by Dustin Chambers and Dan Ervin
“The U.S. economy is sensitive to high energy prices. An aggressive push toward green power would result in the net loss of millions of jobs. There is a better way forward.“
Terrorism
- Don’t panic. Fear is al-Qaeda’s real goal, by Fareed Zakaria
“In responding to the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day, Sen. Dianne Feinstein voiced the feelings of many when she said that to prevent such situations, “I’d rather overreact than underreact.” This appears to be the consensus view in Washington, but it is quite wrong. The purpose of terrorism is to provoke an overreaction.”