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 ... MOREDavid 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"
Will investing in clean energy harm the economy? 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?
Joseph Ashby: Investment in Decline
Pinning a nation's economic hopes on bridges to nowhere gets nowhere.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 ... MOREVIDEO: Licensing Gone Wild: 82-Year-Old Barber Shut Down
Another example of tail-chasing bureaucrats creating more unemployment.
Thomas Sowell: The 'Judicial Activist' Ploy
Now that two different federal courts have declared ObamaCare unconstitutional, the administration's answer is to call the courts guilty of "judicial activism." Barack Obama has a rhetorical solution for every problem. Remember the repeated claims of "shovel-ready" projects that needed only federal stimulus ... MOREWalter E Williams: A Killer Agency
Sam Kazman's "Drug Approvals and Deadly Delays" article in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Winter 2010), tells a story about how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's policies have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. Let's look at how it happens. During the FDA's drug approval process, it confronts the possibility of two errors. If the FDA approves a drug that ... MOREStar Parker: Promote Freedom? Let's Start At Home
Watching the wave of unrest in the Middle East, there are lessons to consider regarding how we view the world and how we manage our lives here at home. I’d call it getting perspective on what you can control and what you can’t. It should be pretty clear that the upheavals in Tunisia and Egypt came as complete surprises. No one predicted them. Is this because no one was paying attention? MORESteve Chapman: America the Conservative?
How to understand American politics.If you want proof that America is a conservative country, Ronald Reagan provides it. Once seen as a reactionary nincompoop, he's probably the most respected president of the last 50 years. Highways and buildings bear his name. Republicans compete to see who can lavish the most praise on him .... MORE
VIDEO: Who Is Stealing Your Purchasing Power?
Our dollar is a medium of exchange and a standard of value, but what about its purchasing power?
Interview with Walter Williams: The State Against Blacks
The welfare state has done what slavery couldn't do --- destroy the black family.'Sometimes I sarcastically, perhaps cynically, say that I'm glad that I received virtually all of my education before it became fashionable for white people to like black people," writes Walter Williams in his new autobiography, "Up from the Projects." "By that I mean that I encountered back then a more honest assessment of my strengths ... MORE
VIDEO: So You Think Money Is The Root Of All Evil?
Francisco D'Anconia's classic remarks about money from Ayn Rand's ATLAS SHRUGGED.
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