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In an article titled “Meet the Unemployable Man,” the Wall Street Journal paints a dismal picture of the future for men in America, particularly those without college degrees. Lawrence Summers, Obama’s economic advisor, is quoted in the article saying: A good guess…is that when the economy recovers five years from now, one in six men who are 25 to 54 will not be working So it looks as though the future is bleak for men, and there won’t be much of a recovery at all if America’s top economist knows what he’s talking about. For the poorly educated men who...

It's not just income taxes that might trash the dreams of Joe the Plumber. Ready or not, Joe and the rest of us are also about to get mugged by the commissars of climate change. On this, I've got a bipartisan beef, since both John McCain and Barack Obama have bought into the panicked Al Gore storyline that the earth has a man-made "fever." Both candidates are promising to meet it with dramatic and costly new forms of government control. This comes even as Europe, after its fling with the Kyoto treaty, is backing off from grand pledges to cut...