Obama rolls out a major EPA rule. The Obama administration proposed a draft air pollution rule
on Wednesday that business groups charge could be the costliest
regulation of all time — setting up a test of how hard the president
will fight for his environmental agenda against a newly strengthened
GOP. President Barack Obama has already ... MORE
It's time to get the state out of the booze business. Virginia made a big mistake four years ago when it failed to end the state’s monopoly on liquor sales, and its residents are going to pay the price for that — again. So far in 2014 Virginia has hauled in 6 percent more revenue than it had by this point last year. But lawmakers had planned ... MORE
by Keith Weiner. As the famous story goes, when Ben Franklin left Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia had a question she wanted answered. “Well Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.” No one today (well, seemingly ... MORE
by Doug Mills. Senator Rand Paul
is calling for a declaration of war against the Islamic State, a move
that promises to shake up the debate over the military campaign in Iraq
and Syria as President Obama prepares to ask Congress to grant him formal authority to use force. Mr.
Paul, a likely presidential candidate who has emerged as one of the ... MORE
by George Leef. After the tumultuous Attorney Generalship of Eric Holder, what the country badly needs is a replacement who will uphold the law fairly and guard against injustices perpetrated by the government. President Obama’s nominee to replace him, federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch is questionable in that regard because of her enthusiastic ... MORE
What motivates our self-appointed conservators. Jonathan Gruber's several videotaped remarks about the gross deceptions that got ObamaCare passed in Congress should tell us a lot about the Obama administration. And the way that the mainstream media hesitated for days to even mention what Professor Gruber said, while they ... MORE
Erin Alberty. In the past five years, more Utahns have been killed by police than by gang members. Or drug dealers. Or from child abuse. And so far this year, deadly force by police has claimed more lives — 13, including a Saturday shooting in South Jordan — than has violence between spouses and dating partners.As the tally of fatal police shootings rises, ... MORE
No place for such in a free society. At the core of the American founding is protecting the civil rights
of the people. The list of “repeated injuries and usurpations,” by King
George III, as delineated in the Declaration of Independence, were never
far from the minds of those who drafted the Constitution and for good
reason. They wanted a ... MORE
by Walter E Williams. Jonathan Gruber, MIT economist and paid architect of Obamacare, has shocked and disgusted many Americans. In 2013, he explained to a University of Pennsylvania audience: "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure (the Congressional Budget Office) did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate ... MORE
The undue influence of stereotypes. Police officers keep claiming that they genuinely thought their
unarmed victims had lethal weapons. Ferguson police officer Darren
Wilson, who shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown,
claims in his grand jury testimony that Brown put his right
hand “under his shirt in his waistband” and then lunged at ... MORE
Cops get seed money to troll for violators. Taxpayers fund their own harassment. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has received a federal “Reducing
Impaired Driving” grant, which will fund 150 sobriety checkpoints, 75
DUI task force operations, proactive DUI enforcement patrols through
September 30, 2015, and at least 100 safety ... MORE
by Tim Worstall. The last few days have seen us regaled with a serious of stories about how the world is going to run out of chocolate. That would be, I think we can all agree, almost as bad as running out of bacon. So it’s worth thinking through the reasons as to why we might be running out. After all, cocoa, from which chocolate is made, is a plant, ... MORE