Top Court To Hear Arguments Over Government Spying
by Terry Barnes. A debate over how freely the U.S. government can eavesdrop on international communications reaches a climax on Monday in the country's highest court. At issue is a law passed by Congress in 2008 allowing the government to monitor the overseas communications of individuals without obtaining a warrant for each target. ... MORE
"The New Economic Patriotism" Is Not A Jobs Plan
by David Harsanyi. Fear not; Barack Obama has an economic plan for America, and it's all in a glossy brochure, called "The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs & Middle-Class Security"—an antidote, we're told, to the vagueness of Mitt Romney's agenda. This is what the president, according to a campaign official, believes will ensure ... MORE
Brian Domitrovic: Inequality Is The Child Of Fiat Money
The Federal Reserve is the problem. For a while there, it looked like the 2012 election was going to be a referendum on economic inequality. This would have been weird, in that economic growth and its twin, employment, are the clear issues of choice in these years of torpid economic recovery. Had President Obama succeeded in making ... MORE
Supreme Court To Determine Legality Of Reselling
Testing the boundaries of copyright laws. All eyes will be on Justice Elena Kagan on Monday, when the Supreme Court considers a copyright case that some fear could prevent people from reselling certain products they own such as the iPhone, as she may have the deciding vote. In a case that tests the boundaries of copyright law, ... MOREWhy Government Spending Doesn't Create Jobs
by Robert J. Samuelson. Who creates most jobs? Hint: It's not the government. Almost everyone seems to grasp that the private sector is the true jobs machine. But here's a notable exception to the consensus: the editorial page of The New York Times. The other day, its lead editorial was "The Myth of Job Creation: The government does in fact create ... MOREPoll Indicates California Voters To Reject Brown's Tax Hike
Big government at the saturation point. California Gov. Jerry Brown's $6 billion tax increase initiative is losing steam with state voters as it enters the final stretch of the race, a poll released Thursday shows. Just 46 percent of Californians surveyed plan to vote for the measure Nov. 6, down from 55 percent a month ago, according to a USC Dornsife ... MORERalph R. Reiland: Back When Democrats Knew Economics
Who warned us about big government spending? Eleven months before he was assassinated as he rode with his
wife in the back seat of an open convertible in a motorcade through
downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy delivered a major address to the Economic Club of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel on December 14, 1962. ... MORES. Fred Singer: Obama's EPA Plans For 2013
The green vision to trump private property rights. The November elections will determine the direction of US climate policy -- and therefore also energy policy and the pace of economic growth: jobs, standards of living, budget deficits and inflation. Obama has already promised to make climate change the centerpiece of his concern -- with all that ... MORE
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