A perverse system of misguided incentives. Imagine an industry on a roll. Its income surpassed the $100 billion mark last year for the first time. On top of these riches, those in the business got an additional $25 billion or so in federal handouts. The 1 percenters of Wall Street? Not even close. The beneficiaries are America’s farmers, or to be more ... MOREBLOOMBERG: Farmers Making $100 Billion Get Subsidies
A perverse system of misguided incentives. Imagine an industry on a roll. Its income surpassed the $100 billion mark last year for the first time. On top of these riches, those in the business got an additional $25 billion or so in federal handouts. The 1 percenters of Wall Street? Not even close. The beneficiaries are America’s farmers, or to be more ... MOREIBD Editorial: When Global Warming Freezes Over
Alarmists have looked foolish for quite some time now. Global warming alarmists won't give up their campaign to spread fear and backward thinking until an ice bridge stretches from New York to Paris. Science, though, says they should. Al Gore, who invented global warming hysteria, has most recently been found planning a trip to Antarctica where he will ... MOREMike Riggs: Gary Johnson Braves The ACLU
Libertarian candidate charms civil libertarians. On January 29 the Miami Herald ran a full-page ad excoriating Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for their “abysmal” constitutional records. The ad wasn’t paid for by Ron Paul or his supporters, but by the American Civil Liberties Union, which invited the GOP field to its annual staff convention in Orlando to “face the ... MOREFrank Girardo: California, The Golden Police State
Guess that's why we have Nevada. I'm going to qualify this entire column by stating unequivocally that I don't know what political views my 13-year-old son Thomas might have. I know where he stands on the NFL, being an eighth grader, math and roller coasters - but not politics. Which is fine by me. That said, he made some interesting observations - ... MOREThomas Sowell: Getting Nowhere, Very Fast
A spending spree with other people's money. California has a huge state deb and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Governor Jerry Brown or President Barack Obama from wanting to launch a very costly high-speed rail system. Most of us might be a little skittish about spending money if we were teetering on the ... MOREVIDEO: Bill Whittle Explains THE VOTE PUMP
Did you know government spends $2.2 trillion a year on vote buying?
Thomas Bowden: The Joy Of Football
A celebration of skill, dedication and pursuit of success. As half the nation eagerly awaits the kickoff of the Super Bowl, the other half looks on in wonderment at what could be so enthralling about grown men running up and down a field carrying an oblong ball. Football fans who cannot articulate why they feel such passion for the game may retreat to ... MOREAndrew C. McCarthy: The Myth Of GOP Stinginess
Republicans fill the tank as Obama drives off cliff. Mitch McConnell wanted you to know he was livid on Thursday. The Senate was about to Greece the wheels for adding yet another trillion and change to President Obama’s yet-again tapped-out credit card. “More spending, more debt,” brayed the minority leader. “That’s what we’ve gotten from ... MORESam Chaltain: Require Kids To Stay In School? Not So Fast
Obama's simplistic notion about drop-outs. Anytime you hear government officials mandating new behaviors to a broad swath of the population, that mandate is likely to run afoul of the First Amendment. And so it is with President Obama’s announcement in his 2012 State of the Union address on Tuesday night that all states should “require that all ... MOREWalter E Williams: Obama's Racial Politics
Aided and abetted by a dishonest media. There's been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama's domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have emboldened our enemies. Any criticism of Obama pales in comparison with what might be said about the American ... MORE
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