The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
"Gerald Ford will always be president." That's a cynical piece of Washington wisdom that you can find a) discomfiting, or b) reassuring. But c), it...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
... a sharp slap at libertarian purity from conservative thinker (and occasional Reason contributor ) James Pinkerton. Excerpt: Everyone has a right to his or her principled position, but the majority has rights, too. In the case of a ban against discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, some 89 percent of Americans support such a provision, according to a Wall Street Journal poll...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
When Pres. Obama did the Fox-less Full Ginsburg last week, his toughest moment came when George Stephanopoulos cited Merriam Webster to suggest that PBO's proposal to force people to buy health insurance amounts to a "tax." Some were surprised that Stephanopoulos would put a Dem president on the spot that way. But appearing on today's Fox News Watch, Jim Pinkerton posited an intriguing...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
... was so intense there was a risk the final statement would not mention climate change at all. James Pinkerton: One Year Later: Gerald Ford Will Always Be President A year ago, Obama might have thought that he was going to be another FDR -- an admiring media told him he could do it -- but it hasn't happened. Perhaps the situation might have been different if Obama had put more emphasis,...
TTC News Archives (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
City's defense for not paying up sounds familiar Explanation for toll-road fines is the same one Houston rejects when motorists contest red-light violations 10/30/09 By JAMES PINKERTON Houston Chronicle Copyright 2009 The city has avoided paying county toll road fines using a defense it does not want motorists to use when contesting red-light camera violations. Earlier this week, city...
blogHOUSTON (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
SO, THE CITY OF HOUSTON wants Harris County to go after vehicle owners who haven't paid red light camera tickets, but the city is unwilling to pay county toll fines incurred by drivers of city cars (via the Chron's James Pinkerton): "Harris Co. ha...
blogHOUSTON (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
THE CHRON'S JAMES PINKERTON reports that a court 'has ordered the city to release 160 of 208 contested documents" related to the White Administration's effort to withhold public information related to red-light cameras. Strangely, the White Admini...
Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
As a long-time critic of using red-light cameras as revenue-generation schemes, I was interested to see this story in the Houston Chronicle (" County to City: Do not pass go ," Oct. 20) about a city-county dispute over using coercive methods to force payment from ticketed drivers. Reported James Pinkerton: The city's plan to withhold vehicle registrations of motorists who have...
TTC News Archives (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Grand Parkway stretch in W. Harris Co. not so shovel-ready after all Oct. 9, 2009 By JAMES PINKERTON Houston Chronicle Copyright 2009 Harris County officials will ask the state to shift $181 million in federal stimulus funding from a controversial toll road portion of the Grand Parkway to other local projects, citing delays obtaining federal permits that “might never be issued.“...
Cato-at-liberty (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
I was glad to see James Pinkerton engage my criticism of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) endorsement of federal price controls for health insurance. I was even more pleased to see that Pinkerton has his own blog devoted to developing a Serious Medicine Strategy. If I understand Pinkerton, his argument is essentially: it’s all well and [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
According to my old boss James Pinkerton (via Michael Cannon ), Bobby Jindal was "brave" to endorse an idea that the vast majority of Americans support: a ban on pre-existing conditions. Given its popularity, opposition to the idea is supposedly an example of libertarian purism rather than conservative statesmanship. Of course Pinkerton is correct to urge conservatives...
blogHOUSTON (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
The Houston Chronicle has returned to a favorite topic with this article about how shootings by law enforcement in Harris County have risen this year. According to reporter James Pinkerton, as of 24 September there have been 44 police shootings in...
