Buses Are the Answer

Trains will never Leave the gate; Buses seem A wiser fate. With all due respect to President Barack Obama and the $8 billion he’s dishing out to the states for high-speed rail, it’s too late. Fast trains have been overtaken by gradual events. America has...

The Lineup: Week of November 22-28, 2010

In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, Tiffany Williams calls for raising the minimum wage and Lisa Hajjar highlights the recent conviction of Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was held at Guantanamo for eight years prior to his military commission tribunal. Get...

Raise the Minimum Wage

When he was campaigning in 2008, President Barack Obama promised to raise the federal minimum wage, declaring “people who work full-time should not live in poverty.” Obama proposed raising it to $9.50 by 2011. That would merely adjust the minimum wage for...

We Can’t Afford Cheap Meat Anymore

Most Americans view cheap meat as a good thing, but they generally don’t understand who pays the high cost of the policies making it inexpensive. More than 80 percent of the beef, pork and poultry consumed in this country comes from livestock fed and processed...