from Human Events. President Obama loves to complain that he inherited an economic mess.
That may be true, but his wrong-headed policies have only made matters
worse, taking actions that hurt businesses and stunt job growth. 1. Obamacare costs Obamacare will impose a new cost on many small businesses that
currently do not provide health ... MORE
by Steven Greenhut. If California voters grant the state government the massive income-tax and sales-tax increases that Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats have been demanding via November’s Proposition 30, those same officials will quickly squander the money by shoveling even more benefits to those already well-compensated ... MORE
Justice is blind, just not in the way it was intended. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week having pointed out that 97 percent of U.S. criminal prosecutions are now guilty-plea bargains, and that 85 percent of the remaining 3 percent are trials that return guilty verdicts, I return to the spavined bête noire of the justice system. These are totalitarian ... MORE
Freedom works. Americans coast to coast are victimized daily by an onslaught of hate
and intolerance. But to Van Jones’s dismay, it’s not coming from the
Tea Party movement. Race traitor, Uncle Tom, sell-out, racist, bigot. These are the names that fiscal conservatives, including
ourselves, encounter daily from members of the liberal ... MORE
We will have to fight to keep free internet. The Internet is the world’s biggest economic and social success story of the past three decades. Citizens, NGOs, engineers and governments have all have joined together to write an amazing narrative. That success story now is under threat. In Dubai this December a group of governments will conclude a treaty ... MORE
"There are no jobs!" That is what people told me outside a government "jobs center" in New York City. To check this out, I sent four researchers around the area. They quickly found 40 job openings. Twenty-four were entry-level positions. One restaurant owner told me he would hire 12 people if workers would just apply. It made me wonder what my ... MORE