The lesson learned by Davy Crockett has been lost on today's Congress.
VIDEO: Davy Crockett - Not Yours to Give
The lesson learned by Davy Crockett has been lost on today's Congress.
CBO: Obamacare Will Cost 800,000 Jobs
by Rick Moran. I feel for CBO director Doug Elmendorf. He is stuck between Democrats giving him fabricated Obamacare numbers to base his estimates on and his duty to give Congress accurate information. Yesterday, Elmendorf got it right. Testifying before the House Budget Committee, the Weekly Standard Blog relates the following ... MORE
Damon W. Root: Are We All Originalists Now?
On May 27, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down the New Deal’s National Industrial Recovery Act for exceeding Congress’ lawful authority “to regulate commerce...among the several states.” In response, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt denounced the Court for adhering to the Constitution’s original meaning. “The country was in the horse-and-buggy age when that clause was written,” Roosevelt ... MORE
VIDEO: Ayn Rand - Collectivized Ethics
Does society have an obligation to care for the poor and the less fortunate?
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Justice Scalia's Timely Advice
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered the members of Congress who attended his "constitutional seminar" some timely advice: read The Federalist Papers. This advice, if heeded by members of the 112th Congress, would represent a welcome change in the priorities of our national legislature. From the defeated Phil Hare, who admitted he "didn't worry about the Constitution" to ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: Undermining Allies
While everyone's attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration's foreign policy in Europe has largely gone unnoticed. The British newspaper The Telegraph has reported that part of the price which President Obama paid to get Russia to sign the START treaty, limiting nuclear arms, was revealing to the Russians the hitherto secret size of the British ... MORE
David Harsanyi: Obama's Crony Capitalism
It's time to separate market and state.
When will you wing nuts stop referring to our economic restructuring as "socialism"? Winning the 21st century is all about business. This week, a pro-business Barack Obama implored the rent-seeking CEOs of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to look into their sinister hearts: "Ask yourselves what you can do for America ... MORE
Ronald Bailey: The Unseen Consequences of "Green Jobs"
In his State of the Union speech a couple of weeks ago, President Barack Obama planned to “win the future” by, among many other things, having the federal government “invest” in “clean energy technology—an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet, and create countless new jobs for our people.” But ... MORE
VIDEO: John Stossel's State of the Union
High debt, rampant spending and a government growing like a cancer.
What's a competent president to do?
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Joseph Ashby: Investment in Decline
As the young year progresses, the dominoes of American decline continue to fall. From a White House soiree with Red China to President Obama's "investment"-plugging State of the Union to the Administration's response to Egypt's uprising a rudderless America is on full display. If 2010 was the year of national legislative suicide ... MORE
Peter Suderman: Julius Genachowski, Internet Cop
Obama's top man at the FCC tries to regulate the Net. Robert McDowell becomes effusive when talking about the World Wide Web. “The beauty of the Internet is that it has been somewhat lawless,” says the Republican, one of five appointees who run the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The lack of government mandates, McDowell says, has made the Net “the greatest ... MORE
VIDEO: Licensing Gone Wild: 82-Year-Old Barber Shut Down
Another example of tail-chasing bureaucrats creating more unemployment.
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