VIDEO: Davy Crockett - Not Yours to Give


The lesson learned by Davy Crockett has been lost on today's Congress.

CBO: Obamacare Will Cost 800,000 Jobs

That's one number Democrats will not be able to fudge.
by Rick Moran. I feel for CBO director Doug Elmendorf. He is stuck between Democrats giving him fabricated Obamacare numbers to base his estimates on and his duty to give Congress accurate information. Yesterday, Elmendorf got it right. Testifying before the House Budget Committee, the Weekly Standard Blog relates the following ... MORE

Damon W. Root: Are We All Originalists Now?

On May 27, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down the New Deal’s National Industrial Recovery Act for exceeding Congress’ lawful authority “to regulate commerce...among the several states.” In response, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt denounced the Court for adhering to the Constitution’s original meaning. “The country was in the horse-and-buggy age when that clause was written,” Roosevelt ...   MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - Collectivized Ethics


Does society have an obligation to care for the poor and the less fortunate?

Justice Scalia's Timely Advice

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia offered the members of Congress who attended his "constitutional seminar" some timely advice: read The Federalist Papers. This advice, if heeded by members of the 112th Congress, would represent a welcome change in the priorities of our national legislature. From the defeated Phil Hare, who admitted he "didn't worry about the Constitution" to ... MORE

VIDEO: Hillary's Drug War Observation

Thomas Sowell: Undermining Allies

While everyone's attention seems to be focused on the crisis in Egypt, a bombshell revelation about the administration's foreign policy in Europe has largely gone unnoticed. The British newspaper The Telegraph has reported that part of the price which President Obama paid to get Russia to sign the START treaty, limiting nuclear arms, was revealing to the Russians the hitherto secret size of the British ...   MORE

David Harsanyi: Obama's Crony Capitalism

It's time to separate market and state.
When will you wing nuts stop referring to our economic restructuring as "socialism"? Winning the 21st century is all about business. This week, a pro-business Barack Obama implored the rent-seeking CEOs of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to look into their sinister hearts: "Ask yourselves what you can do for America ...  MORE

Ronald Bailey: The Unseen Consequences of "Green Jobs"

Will investing in clean energy harm the economy?
In his State of the Union speech a couple of weeks ago, President Barack Obama planned to “win the future” by, among many other things, having the federal government “invest” in “clean energy technology—an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet, and create countless new jobs for our people.” But  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel's State of the Union


High debt, rampant spending and a government growing like a cancer.
What's a competent president to do?

Joseph Ashby: Investment in Decline

Pinning a nation's economic hopes on bridges to nowhere gets nowhere.
As the young year progresses, the dominoes of American decline continue to fall. From a White House soiree with Red China to President Obama's "investment"-plugging State of the Union to the Administration's response to Egypt's uprising a rudderless America is on full display.  If 2010 was the year of national legislative suicide ... MORE