Is it fascism yet? That was the snarky question glued to the bumper of every self-respecting progressive’s gas/electric hybrid back during the Bush-Cheney administration. It now must be asked again. Back then, liberals were raising the alarm about impending fascism because of post-9/11 policies such as warrantless wiretapping, wars of choice, military ... MORE
Do you really think taxes and jobs are unrelated? One of the many false talking points of the Obama administration is that a rich man like Warren Buffett should not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. But anyone whose earnings come from capital gains usually pays a lower tax rate. How are capital gains different from ordinary ... MORE
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 ... MORE
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 ... MORE
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. ... MORE
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? ... MORE
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 ... MORE
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 ... MORE
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%. ... MORE
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
US spies on political activists without probable cause. The U.S. government has been “spying on political activists without probable cause” for decades, a practice that has been exacerbated in recent years, says Kris Hermes, a spokesman for the National Lawyers' Guild in Chicago. “The U.S. government has had a history of spying on political activists for ... MORE
by Dr. Marc Siegel. Wednesday night the first presidential debate will take place in Denver.
The focus will be on domestic policy. But it’s a safe bet, while you’ll
likely hear about ObamaCare, you won’t hear about the doctors on the
front lines of medicine in the United States today. President Obama has
said he likes the term ObamaCare because ... MORE