Obama Completes The Trifecta

Or, how to jump that pesky separation of powers obstacle.

With a bold political announcement, President Baarack Obama has completed the trifecta -- de facto coups which bring into his White House the powers and functions of the other two branches, as outlined in our Constitution. That document assigns the legislative function to Congress, but the Executive Branch blithely and routinely ... MORE

Steve Chapman: The Politicians Are The Real Problem

How public employees and taxpayers got scammed.

Public employees have been cramming the Wisconsin state Capitol to protest the governor's plan to cut their take-home pay and gut their collective bargaining rights. You can't blame them for objecting when the state reneges on a deal. But they should have been protesting years ago, when politicians and union leaders  ...  MORE

VIDEO: CAGW's Porker of the Month for Feb. 2011!

Citizens Against Government Waste have their February winner.

Douglas French: Banking Turnaround?

The headline is that the U.S. banking industry turned around in a big way in 2010 earning $87.5 billion, the highest since 2007. That’s a huge jump from 2009′s industry loss of $10.6 billion. Unemployment is still high at 9% according to the government, commercial real estate values are still in the dumps and home values according to Case-Shiller are still declining. Banks in the aggregate even charged off roughly the same ...   MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Net Neutrality Game

Government control begins gobbling up the internet.

Veronique De Rugy: Losing The Brains Race

America is spending more on education while producing worse outcomes.

In November the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released its Program for International Student Assessment scores, measuring educational achievement in 65 countries. The results are depressingly familiar: While students in many developed nations have been learning more and more over time, ...  MORE