This right-wing hatred has to be stopped!
Walter E Williams: Self-Inflicted Poverty
Why is it that Egyptians do well in the U.S. but not Egypt? We could make that same observation and pose that same question about Nigerians, Cambodians, Jamaicans and others of the underdeveloped world who migrate to the U.S. Until recently, we could make the same observation about Indians in India, and the Chinese citizens of the People's Republic of China, but not Chinese citizens of Hong Kong ... MOREDan Walters: California Drivers Targeted As Cash Cows
Debt-creating politicians look to transfer misdeeds to the backs of motorists. California has 30-plus million motor vehicles and 24-plus million licensed drivers and auto travel is, like it or not, fundamental to life as we Californians know it. That's why we motorists are captive cash cows. Politicians know we must drive to live and therefore assume that no matter how hard they hit us, we'll pay up. MORE
The CLASS Act Is No Class Act
Another big government tax is poised to assault your pocketbook.In the coming months, the Department of Health and Human Services will be ironing out the details of the CLASS Act and submitting information to employers in preparation for enrolling their employees into the voluntary program in 2012. It will probably catch most businesses off guard, for it’s a provision of ObamaCare ... MORE
VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Varieties of Nothing
How politicians often disguise nothing as something to assuage public opinion.
Terry Paulson: Choice, Not Compromise
Individual rights were to supersede any government power. Rep. Paul Ryan’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union provides a clue to the political battle that is coming: “The principles that guide us; they are anchored in the wisdom of the founders in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and in the words of the American Constitution. They have to do with the importance of ... MORE
Amy Sullivan: Stay Classy, TSA
MALE TSA AGENT: "Hey, I thought she was mine! I was gonna do her!"Ever since the TSA started putting back-scatter devices into use at selected airports last fall, I've been waiting to have the chance to opt out and register a one-woman protest against the machines. (Jeff Goldberg doesn't get to have all the fun.) However, most of my recent air travel has been with a tiny traveling companion, ... MORE
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 ... MOREVIDEO: 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 ... MOREThomas 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 ... MOREDavid 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
Peter Suderman: Julius Genachowski, Internet Cop
Obama's top man at the FCC tries to regulate the Net. Robert McDowell becomes effusive when talking about the World Wide Web. “The beauty of the Internet is that it has been somewhat lawless,” says the Republican, one of five appointees who run the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The lack of government mandates, McDowell says, has made the Net “the greatest ... MOREVIDEO: Licensing Gone Wild: 82-Year-Old Barber Shut Down
Another example of tail-chasing bureaucrats creating more unemployment.
Thomas Sowell: The 'Judicial Activist' Ploy
Now that two different federal courts have declared ObamaCare unconstitutional, the administration's answer is to call the courts guilty of "judicial activism." Barack Obama has a rhetorical solution for every problem. Remember the repeated claims of "shovel-ready" projects that needed only federal stimulus ... MORE
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