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Good News, Bad News on Jobs

By Ernest Istook on February 6, 2012

It’s hard to separate the facts from the politics about job creation in America. More jobs than expected were created in January. Almost a quarter million new jobs is about 100,000 more than projected. We continued a three-month trend of 200,000 or more new jobs each month. That’s a good…

Vandy Failure

By Ernest Istook on February 1, 2012

My opinion of Vanderbilt University just went down. Like too many other colleges, Vanderbilt has adopted a policy they claim is to ban discrimination, but in fact tramples on First Amendment rights. According to Vanderbilt officials, the Christian Legal Society cannot require that members be Christians. They not only must…

Drilling Hype

By Ernest Istook on January 27, 2012

Despite attacks from radical environmentalists, America’s oil and gas industry survives and boosts our economy.   In his State of the Union speech, President Obama claimed credit for the success of an industry he keeps trying to kill. Now he’s bragging because production is up.   But that’s thanks to…