by Mark LaRochelle. President Obama has chosen to make this election about economic
inequality. As he put it, “the average income for the top one percent of
Americans has risen almost seven times faster than the income of the average middle class family.” To remedy this situation, says Obama, we must increase spending, raise taxes and generally ... MOREPersonal Freedom Tied To Economic Freedom
by Mark LaRochelle. President Obama has chosen to make this election about economic
inequality. As he put it, “the average income for the top one percent of
Americans has risen almost seven times faster than the income of the average middle class family.” To remedy this situation, says Obama, we must increase spending, raise taxes and generally ... MOREJacob Sullum: Slandering Muhammad Is Not A Crime
Pandering to Muslims at the expense of free speech. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly last week, President Obama
tried to explain this strange attachment that Americans have to
freedom of speech. He was handicapped by his attraction to a moral
principle whose dangers the journalist Jonathan Rauch presciently
highlighted in his 1993 book ... MOREThe Painful Truth About Affirmative Action
A dishonest system that hurts minorities. Affirmative action in university admissions started in the late 1960s as a noble effort to jump-start racial integration and foster equal opportunity. But somewhere along the decades, it has lost its way. Over time, it has become a political lightning rod and one of our most divisive social policies. ... MORERalph Benko: Signs Of The Gold Standard Emerging In China
Is the road to prosperity paved with gold? As noted in last week’s column about the rising recognition by authorities in Germany about the virtues of gold, the gold standard is receiving impressive new recognition internationally. The GOP plank calling for a commission to study “possible ways to set a fixed value for the dollar” -- is ... MORE
Thomas Sowell - Cheap Politicians
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? ... MOREPriest Accused Of Molestations Landed TSA Pat Down Gig
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 ... MORESupreme Court Opens Door To ObamaCare Challenge
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 ... MOREVIDEO: Nanny of the Month Faceoff - Romney/Obama
Special interactive edition - Time for you to vote.
Walter Galvin: Suppressing Our Economic Power
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%. ... MOREObama Spending Plans Will Hit Middle Class Hard
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
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