The Next Urban Challenge–And Opportunity
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 23rd, 2011 5:31 am by HL
The Next Urban Challenge–And Opportunity
Joel Kotkin, Forbes
Obama Finally Gets the Wisdom of Tribunals
Obama’s Regulatory Review Isn’t All That New
Eric Posner, New Republic
Tuesday, the president issued a new executive order on cost-benefit analysis and regulation. Already, the right has denounced it as a paean to collectivism and the left has declared that Obama has sold out to business groups. In fact, both sides are incorrect. The surprising reality is that cost-benefit analysis, as it will likely be practiced under the Obama administration, is not nearly as threatening as its detractors suggest. Then again, neither is it as revolutionary as its supporters like to imagine.Long ago, cost-benefit analysis was a rallying cry for conservatives. It was brought to…
Will President Obama Be Bold on Guns?
Charles Blow, New York Times
President Obama is under renewed pressure from his base to demonstrate that he is, indeed, a principled man of unwavering conviction rather than a pliant political reed willingly bent and bowed by ever-shifting winds. Charles M. Blow This time the issue is gun control. Pre-presidency, Obama had been a strong supporter of gun-control initiatives. Since then, however, he has remained curiously quiet on the issue in general and following the Tucson shooting in particular. The question now is: which Obama will show up at the State of the Union? …
Sy Hersh’s Loopy Crusade
Charles Lane, Washington Post
It's getting more attention than his previous rants, but there's really not much new in Seymour Hersh's diatribe against the “crusaders” who supposedly “hijacked” U.S. foreign policy during the Bush administration, with the purported intent, as Hersh put it in a speech in Doha, “to turn mosques into cathedrals.”Yes, he's freshened it up a bit by falsely calling Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and other officers of being “members of, or at least supporters of, Knights of Malta,” But Hersh has been banging the same drum about “eight…
