We get what we pay for. Now that the National Football League has apparently learned that it
can be costly to hire cheap officials, perhaps the rest of us should
learn the same lesson when it comes to government officials, whose bad
calls can do a lot more damage. What do we do when we want a better car, a better home or a better
bottle of wine? ... MORE
Has since earned promotion. The Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) didn’t bother to do a background check on a priest who had been defrocked for molesting girls before they gave him a job, which included doing pat downs on children at Philadelphia International Airport. The Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday reported that ... MORE
Could America get a reprieve? Tucked inside the Supreme Court's lengthy list of orders on Monday was an indication that the fight over President Obama's health care law soon could be back before the high court. Since the court's June decision upholding the law's individual mandate to buy insurance, one of the first Obamacare plaintiffs ... MORE
Should America have the highest corporate tax rate? Sweden may be best known among Americans as home of the Nobel Prize and IKEA but astute politicians would be wise to take a closer look at what this Scandinavian nation is doing economically. Last month, Sweden announced plans to lower its corporate tax rate to 22% from 26.3%. ... MORE
Politicians to seek more control of your earnings. A new study by Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum finds
that President Barack Obama's spending plan would raise taxes on the
middle class. "Taxpayers making as little as $30,000 will carry
$1,500 more in taxes annually over the next 10 years," the study finds. The significance ... MORE
US spies on political activists without probable cause. The U.S. government has been “spying on political activists without probable cause” for decades, a practice that has been exacerbated in recent years, says Kris Hermes, a spokesman for the National Lawyers' Guild in Chicago. “The U.S. government has had a history of spying on political activists for ... MORE
by Dr. Marc Siegel. Wednesday night the first presidential debate will take place in Denver.
The focus will be on domestic policy. But it’s a safe bet, while you’ll
likely hear about ObamaCare, you won’t hear about the doctors on the
front lines of medicine in the United States today. President Obama has
said he likes the term ObamaCare because ... MORE