The New York Times and CBS News conducted phone interviews of persons who identify with the Tea Party movement. The full results, all 41 pages worth, can be viewed freely at http://s3.amazonaws.com/nytdocs/docs/312/312.pdf. The results are fascinating, at least to a political scientist. The Tea Party identifiers believe deeply in free markets. An astonishing 92%...
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On Thursday, April 15, 2010, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing to examine the status of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), and on recent reports on short and long-term strategies for its financial viability and stability. The hearing was...
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The Asbury Park Press has a freely accessible database of federal employees salaries at http://php.app.com/fed_employees/search.php. Not all federal employees’ salaries are available. As Ralph Smith of FedSmith.com notes, the database does not include employees involved in security work, the FBI, CIA, Defense Department, nuclear...
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Heritage Microfilm has a fee-for-service website, http://www.newspaperarchive.org/. It proclaims that it is the world’s largest historical newspaper archive online, with millions of newspaper articles from 1759 to the present....
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My friend, Vin Cannato, has published a nice piece on home ownership in the Spring 2010 issue of National Affairs. Cannato writes, Through a combination of heedless public policy...
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Speech-less tells an all-too-familiar tale—an idealistic twenty-something comes to DC to work for the government and ends up disillusioned. Matt Latimer grew up in a humble town in Michigan,...
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Back in the late 1990s, I worked at the New York Press newspaper. It was a heady time—the paper’s circulation was soaring, the ad dollars were rolling in, and...
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The March 16, 2010 New York Times reported: “Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet....
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On March 14, 2010, the New York Times ran an op-ed by Susan Jacoby on education and federalism. Jacoby has written widely and smartly on many subjects, but why...
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