Using the Oklahoma City Bombing
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 21st, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Using the Oklahoma City Bombing
Deb Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
Monday was the anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that left 149 men and women — most of them federal workers — and 19 children dead. As is his habit, former President Bill Clinton used the occasion to bash his critics.In a New York Times opinion piece, “What We Learned in Oklahoma City,” Clinton placed the blame on Americans who have advocated smaller government. The terrorists — bomber Timothy McVeigh and his accomplices — who targeted the Murrah Federal Building, he wrote, “took to the ultimate extreme an idea advocated in the months and years before the…
Senators Propose Bill to Smooth Out Presidential Transitions
The Case for Breaking Up the Big Banks
Jonathan Macey, RealClearPolitics
Chris Dodd and the other politicians working on financial reform claim that their proposed legislation will end the long-standing U.S. policy which posits that the biggest financial institutions are “too big to fail” and therefore must be bailed out every time they find themselves in financial distress. At the core of the “Dodd bill” is the premise that regulators need yet more discretion, more power, and more regulatory tools if they are to succeed at last in exorcizing long-entrenched too big to fail strategies from the heart of our regulatory canon. The Dodd bill is…
