by Thomas J. Donohue. How do regulations stifle innovation? Let me count the ways. Across our economy, and in sector after sector, regulations put a stranglehold on innovation – in some cases stopping advancement in its tracks and in others preventing it from happening in the first place. Overregulation is a millstone around the neck of ... MORE
What a conservative Congress should do. Property rights are a fundamental value of political conservatives, and the new conservative majorities in Congress and the state Legislature have early opportunities to enhance those rights. Those rights most often have become controversial in eminent domain cases, where governments ... MORE
Propaganda repository gets new blood. MSNBC: The place where ex-White House aides go to be unbiased. Or, well, something like that. There was a time, years ago, when MSNBC was still pretending to have straight news reporting by not letting hosts like Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews anchor election coverage. But that’s clearly a ... MORE
from the Washington Times. Invoking the Constitution is the common rhetoric of many politicians who swore to follow and defend it, but a lot of them have obviously never read it, or if they have, didn’t understand it. The Founding Fathers wrote it in plain English, simple enough for even a lawyer to understand, but some politicians ... MORE
by Steven Greenhut. In 1966, the then-Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas warned
about an "alarming trend whereby the
privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled
away." Each step is imperceptible, he
wrote, "but when viewed as a whole, there
begins to emerge a… society in which government may intrude into
the secret regions ... MORE
by Kira Davis. American pop culture is filled with darlings. “America’s Sweetheart” has been everyone from the original 1920’s Sweetheart Mary Pickford (actually a Canadian) to Sandra Bullock to Jennifer Lawrence. “America’s Little Sister” was precocious Laura Ingalls. “America’s Mom” was ever-kind and tidy June Cleaver. But it was “America’s Dad” ... MORE
by John W. Whitehead. Is this really a government of consent? “Who needs direct repression,” asked philosopher Slavoj Zizek, “when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?” In an Orwellian age where war equals peace, surveillance equals safety, and tolerance equals intolerance of uncomfortable truths and ... MORE
by Neil Munro. A redistribution from citizens to non-citizens. Illegal immigrants will receive huge payments from American taxpayers under rules now being imposed by President Barack Obama’s unilateral amnesty. The illegals will get work-permits and Social Security cards, and will be required to pay taxes, according to Cecilia Munoz, the former ... MORE
by Donald Rieck and Wayne Winegarden. Perhaps President Obama envisions that the Internet is operated by Ernestine, the condescending telephone operator played by Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In. Otherwise, it is difficult to justify why he would want to hobble the 21st century broadband industry with regulations designed in the ... MORE
From civil asset forfeiture to eminent domain. “Government,” as Barney Frank and other progressives are fond of saying, “is just another word for things we choose to do together.” Like rob people blind. Sometimes the together-doing is highway robbery in the most
literal sense — as when police departments seize cash from
motorists ... MORE
by Katie Kieffer. Fear of sunlight and guns is leading Democrats to turn nocturnal. Bats, mice, skunks and other nocturnal creatures are most active between sunset and sunrise. Nocturnal creatures do not “choose” to avoid sunlight anymore than fish “choose” to avoid dry land; it is instinctual, healthy and normal for nocturnal creatures to work ... MORE
Enabling bad behavior solves nothing. If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes. Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice ... MORE