Obama's Change: Steep Drop In Standard Of Living
by Ron Scherer, Christian Science Monitor. Think life is not as good as it used to be, at least in terms of your wallet? You'd be right about that. The standard of living for Americans has fallen longer and more steeply over the past three years than at any time since the US government began recording it five decades ago. Bottom line: The average individual ... MOREPeter Wehner: In Defense Of Gridlock
It's the public's way to slam on the brakes. Ronald Reagan made enormous contributions to his country during his presidency – and appointing Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court ranks very high among them. I say that not simply because of the votes Justice Scalia has cast over the last quarter-century, but because of his enormous intellectual contributions to our ... MORESteve Chapman: Dazed And Confused No More
A full 50% of Americans favor legalizing marijuana. Candidates running for president can easily wreck their campaigns with one serious misstep. Back in 1976, one Democrat said he favored getting rid of criminal penalties for marijuana use. Can you imagine how Americans of that primitive era reacted to his blunder? They elected him. Once in office, Jimmy Carter ... MOREChristopher Chantrill: Subsidies Have Consequences
The ruling class doesn't have a clue about business. To an Obami like Jay Carney, White House press secretary, the failure of corporate crony Solyndra is "just the way business works." You win some, you lose some. Only, of course, the way business works is that when you lose, it's supposed to be your money that gets lost. As Matthew Continetti points out, under ... MOREREASON.COM: Find Your True Love!
A quiz to match you to your perfect GOP candidate. Not sure who to commit to in the Republican primary race? Let Reason help you out. Picking a presidential candidate is like sorting through online dating profiles—nobody's quite right, but once a meet-cute is out of the question, the best you can hope for is to pick a mate out of a self-selected digital lineup. Thus our handy candidate ... MOREJames Wilson: Prohibit Prohibition
To prohibitionists of all kinds, the ends justify the means, even if those means include murder. I realized this while watching the Ken Burns 3-part documentary Prohibition, which debuted last week. During Alcohol Prohibition, the Federal State deliberately poisoned alcohol supplies to discourage drinking. As many as 10,000 died. The callousness of ... MOREWar On Drugs Has Become War On The American People
by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute. "On July 29, 2008, my family and I were terrorized by an errant Prince George's County SWAT team. This unit forced entry into my home without a proper warrant, executed our beloved black Labradors, Payton and Chase, and bound and interrogated my mother-in-law and me for hours as they ransacked our belongings… ... MORERandazzo & Stansel: The Upper-Class Entitlement
It's time to end the mortgage interest deduction. The federal income tax code is full of complicated deductions, credits, and loopholes, which together exempted $1.2 trillion from taxation in 2009. The single largest benefit, amounting to around 35 percent of the total, is the mortgage interest deduction. This longstanding incentive, which allows individual ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
The ponderings of a genius. Like so many people, in so many countries, who started out to "spread the wealth," Barack Obama has ended up spreading poverty. Have you ever heard anyone as incoherent as the people staging protests across the country? Taxpayers ought to be protesting against having their money spent to educate people who end up unable to say ... MOREEmily Schultheise: Ron Paul Announces Economic Plan
Only a radical plan will avert economic disaster. This afternoon, Congressman Ron Paul released his “Plan to Restore America,” which would cut $1 trillion in spending during the first year of the Paul administration. The plan “eliminat[es] five cabinet departments (Energy, HUD, Commerce, Interior, and Education), abolish[es] the Transportation Security Administration and ... MOREDestroying Value Is What Government Does Best
by Sheldon Richman. In Cleveland and other American cities homes are being demolished because five years after the housing bust there is nothing better to do with them. Therein lies a lesson in Austrian business cycle theory. In a world of uncertainty, waste — the destruction of value — is inevitable. Human action, which aims to replace inferior ... MOREJacob Sullum: Read My Tea Leaves
Obama spits in the face of state law. In their October 7 press release announcing "coordinated enforcement actions" against medical marijuana dispensaries, California's four U.S. attorneys use the adjective commercial to describe their targets eight times and refer to profit nine times, not counting two mentions of money and one of moneymaking. You might surmise ... MOREHOT AIR: Propaganda Created, Saved, and Supported.
Media trumpets specious "saved or created jobs" numbers. The Obama administration’s latest tactic for selling its jobs bill is to claim it will “support” 400,000 jobs (primarily in government). Ed Morrissey notes this metric is as unmeasurable as jobs “saved or created” by Obama’s failed stimulus law, which is a good springboard for underscoring a crucial ... MORECBS BOSTON: Police Feel Free To Enter Unlocked Cars
Who gave them the right? Thieves are finding easy targets on the North Shore: Cars that aren’t locked with valuable items inside. If your car door was unlocked, or an officer spotted your GPS, wallet, or something important in plain view, you might have found a warning on your windshield in Beverly this weekend. Police were willing to stir-up a little proactive controversy to ... MOREWalter E Williams: Its Hard To Be A Racist
Years ago it was easy to be a racist. All you had to be was a white person using some of the racial epithets that are routinely used in song and everyday speech by many of today's blacks. Or you had to chant "two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate" when a black student showed up for admission to your high school or college. Of course, there was that ... MORE
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