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 ... MOREPersonal Freedom Tied To Economic Freedom
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 ... MOREJacob Sullum: Slandering Muhammad Is Not A Crime
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 ... MOREThe Painful Truth About Affirmative Action
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. ... MORERalph Benko: Signs Of The Gold Standard Emerging In China
Is the road to prosperity paved with gold? As noted in last week’s column about the rising recognition by authorities in Germany about the virtues of gold, the gold standard is receiving impressive new recognition internationally. The GOP plank calling for a commission to study “possible ways to set a fixed value for the dollar” -- is ... MORE
Thomas Sowell - Cheap Politicians
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? ... MOREPriest Accused Of Molestations Landed TSA Pat Down Gig
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 ... MORESupreme Court Opens Door To ObamaCare Challenge
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 ... MOREVIDEO: Nanny of the Month Faceoff - Romney/Obama
Special interactive edition - Time for you to vote.
Walter Galvin: Suppressing Our Economic Power
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%. ... MOREObama Spending Plans Will Hit Middle Class Hard
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 ... MOREObama Increases Warrantless Surveillance Of Citizens
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 ... MOREWhy ObamaCare Has Doctors Depressed And Discouraged
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 ... MOREGuantanamo Bay: Model For An American Police State?
NDAA helps connect the dots. For most Americans, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay—once the topic of heated political debate by presidential hopeful Barack Obama but rarely talked about by the incumbent President Obama—has become a footnote in the government’s ongoing war on terror. Yet for the approximately 167 detainees ... MORESteve Chapman: Will Pot Become Legal?
Good luck to feds trying to enforce the federal law. Judging from recent history, any young person who aspires to be president should be aware that certain attributes seem to be critical. You have to be male. You have to have an Ivy League degree. You have to have been a governor or senator. And, don't forget, you have to have smoked ... MOREWalter E Williams: Trickle Down And Tax Cuts
"Tax cuts for the rich" rhetoric works on the gullible. Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the
Rich'" has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read
this short paper, the conclusion you must reach is that the term
"trickle down theory" is simply a tool of charlatans and political
hustlers. Sowell states ... MOREKaty Kieffer: Grab A Glass Of Bacardi!
Dealing with "Washington lemons." When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When Washington gives you lemons, make lemonade and don’t forget the rum. D.C. lemons make it challenging to remain upbeat. “Lemon legislation” coming out of Washington, D.C. is effectively shredding the Constitution (think Obamacare or the Patient ... MORELee Harris: Stop Apologizing For Our Liberties
You cannot apologize to a fanatic. It only serves to convince him that he was right all along, and that is the last course the United States should be pursuing at this critical juncture of world history. The last few weeks have witnessed a peculiar and disturbing spectacle: An American administration that has spent a great deal of time and energy ... MORE
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