Our Editorial

School sabotage

With Michigan schools facing an enormous funding gap, the Michigan Education Association is attempting to sabotage an effort that could bring in more than $600 million in federal education money. - 11/08/2009

Letters

Letters

While I have no sympathy for the big for-profit health insurers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's latest try at paying for health care reform by instituting a windfall profit tax on them and drug companies is nonsense. Who does she think is going to spend more money to block the tax? Instead of arguing how we are going to pay for reform, why don't these politicians argue how much it is going to cost if we do nothing. Just one estimate puts escalating costs through 2018 to be over $10 trillion. - 11/08/2009

Charles Krauthammer

Election 2009 demolishes realignment myth

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday's elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008. - 11/08/2009

Froma Harrop

Tea partiers are carpetbaggers

The Tea Party wing of the Republican Party had the perfect strategy for upstate New York's 23rd congressional district: - 11/08/2009

Kathleen Parker

Saving the news

Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps. - 11/08/2009

Clarence Page

Racial hope fades despite Obama

In my favorite "Star Trek" episode, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise encountered humanoids from a planet embroiled in war over an issue as clear as black and white. Literally. - 11/08/2009

Thomas Sowell

What will lower costs do to health quality?

Although it is cheaper to buy a pint of milk than to buy a quart of milk, nobody considers that to be lowering the price of milk. Although it is cheaper to buy a lower quality of all sorts of goods than to buy a higher quality, nobody thinks of that as lowering the price of either lower or higher quality goods. - 11/08/2009

Editorial Quick Hits: Move on state reforms

The Granholm administration this week notified 55 idle state police officers their recall to work was being delayed because of state revenue concerns and then, a day later, reversed itself and told the officers to report back to their posts as originally planned. The governor also told her department heads to start laying the ground work for still more steep cuts -- around 20 percent -- in the 2011 budget. - 11/07/2009

Editorial Quick Hits: Theirs

UAW needs cultural change; Michigan, other states avoid hard choices; Obama blows economic chances; No abortion subsides in health reform; 'Economics is new cultural war' - 11/07/2009

Commentary

Not counting illegal immigrants doesn't compute

Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, has introduced legislation that, if passed, would instruct the U.S. Census Bureau not to take into account illegal immigrants and other noncitizens in the 2010 census. - 11/07/2009

Commentary

Shift to natural gas for lower-carbon future

The public debate on climate change can seem beguilingly simple: alternative fuels good; fossil fuels bad. If we burn less of the latter and use more of the former, the argument goes, we will be well on our way to a lower-carbon future. - 11/07/2009

Election shows mandate for moderation

Opinion is split on whether the results of Tuesday's off-year election are a harbinger of better days ahead for Republicans, but no one is finding much good news for Democrats. - 11/07/2009

Paul W. Smith

Let's break the cycle of region's negative news

Outta' my mind on a Saturday moanin': - 11/07/2009

Commentary

GOP moderates should go nuclear

Wingnuts of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but election ... after election ... after election. That's the lesson from the far right's stinging defeat in a New York Republican congressional district this week. - 11/07/2009