The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is out this morning with new research (“Young Student Loan Borrowers Retreat from Housing and Auto Markets”) showing that student debt is not merely painful to those owing it, but has also become economically damaging. The debt burden is essentially neutralizing, or worse, the income advantage of having earned […]

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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is worried that conservatives are putting two and two together and threatening to derail immigration reform. U.S. Rep. Steve King, who didn’t like immigration reform to begin with, has said deal-making among legislators should slow down in the wake of the Boston bombing — in case the bomber is a foreigner. […]

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It is customary for Congress to pass resolutions commending Israel on the anniversary of its founding in 1948. Once these resolutions were innocuous with references to “making the desert bloom” and “ingathering” Jewish refugees. Standard “pro-Israel” boilerplate. No more. In recent years Congress, with the Israel lobby’s eager assistance, has coupled salutations and congratulations with […]

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The communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration. Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable. The coverage in the media has been hair-raising. The U.S. is rushing an untested missile defense system to Guam, deploying missile-interceptor ships off the South […]

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In 1990, Secretary of State James Baker had basically had it up to here with the Israeli government. The (George H.W.) Bush administration had been trying to entice Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir into negotiations with the Palestinians but he kept adding new conditions to get the U.S. off his back. To be acceptable to Shamir, […]

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