Energy trade, not restrictions/taxes, will advance growth. In less than a decade, the role of unconventional oil and gas has dramatically changed the energy outlook in the United States. Over the next 20 years, US natural gas and coal exports will increase and oil imports will decline steadily. Abundant domestic energy can be a huge driver of the ... MORE
Some lessons need to be learned: You can tell your child a million times, “don’t touch the stove, it’s hot,” or you can tell them once, let them touch it, and they quickly figure it out. Some will think I am evil, but the fact is it’s effective. Choices are a part of life; the wrong ones will burn you. Traditionally in America, we have always tried to make ... MORE
It hurts, not helps, low-skill workers. When someone says “minimum wage,” what comes to mind? Do you think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single parent trying to feed several kids? While President Obama and other proponents of a higher minimum wage
want you to visualize that single parent, the truth is that a
burger-flipping ... MORE
Just how sovereign are we? A United Nations-based drug agency urged the United States government on Tuesday to challenge the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Washington, saying the state laws violate international drug treaties. The International Narcotics Control Board made its appeal in an annual drug report. ... MORE
Why the nation's capital is a clown show. Like most of this company town, I'm addicted to Netflix's Beltway "telenovela," House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey as a conspiratorial House majority whip. But the show unwittingly flatters D.C., depicting a city of ruthless, steely competence. The real thing is a clown show consumed by ... MORE
John W. Whitehead on the U.S. Supreme Court. “The unspoken power dynamics in a police/civilian encounter will generally favor the police, unless the civilian is a local sports hero, the mayor, or a giant who is impervious to bullets.”—Journalist Justin Peters From time to time throughout history, individuals have been subjected to charges ... MORE
Taking advantage of opportunity. Most people are not even surprised any more when they hear about
someone who came here from Korea or Vietnam with very little money, and
very little knowledge of English, who nevertheless persevered and rose
in American society. Nor are we surprised when their children excel in
school and go on to ... MORE
Push to legalize industrial hemp is gaining steam. Supporters of industrial hemp gained a powerful ally in Washington several weeks ago when Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joined fellow Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul and Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as a co-sponsor of S.359, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act ... MORE
Those who still pay income taxes will pay even more. Under economic pressure, the Obama administration has pursued an increasingly vigorous class war strategy. At the same time people continue to be dropped from the income tax rolls. This likely expands government and increases what the rest of us will have to pay. Throughout its early ... MORE