Vive la France! Vive la différence! France swore in an honest-to-goodness Socialist as its president last week. But if President François Hollande's socialism gets you all wound up, wait until you check out his marital status: he's living in sin!…
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Since 2007, the Hungarian government has promoted the Bike to Work (Bringázz a Munkába) program. Here's one of their delightful TV ads: Put on the hardhat of your choice and ride!
Here's one more sign we may not need to tear up good prairie and surrender land rights to a foreign corporation with the Keystone XL pipeline: TransCanada is thinking about converting an existing natural gas pipeline to carry tar sands…
Hat tip to Mark Thoma! Quick breakfast quiz: Which of the following countries has the highest unemployment rate? And which has the lowest? United States Australia Canada France Germany Italy Japan Netherlands Sweden United Kingdom According to the latest Bureau…
Yesterday I mentioned America's declining teen birth rates and wondered how that improvement squares with the cries of moral decline that we hear from our alarmist right-wing neighbors. That improvement is relative. Compare birth rates in the U.S. with our…
The State Department's report to Congress on its decision to deny TransCanada its permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline makes clear that nixing this pipeline now "is unlikely to have a substantial impact on U.S. employment, economic activity,…
Mitt Romney's campaign slogan, as repeated for the umpteenth time in last night's New Hampshire debate, is, "We're becoming more like Europe!" On so many fronts, one can only wish that were true. Former Madison, Wisconsin, mayor Dave Cieslewicz explains…