A look at the real world effects of drug legalization on little children.
Veronique De Rugy: The Truth About Obama's 2012 Budget
Separating economic myth from economic fact.Fact 1: Debt and spending will continue to grow and deficits will continue to persist under the president’s Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Request. ... MORE
Robert Tracinski: Public Unions & The Socialist Eutopia
The Democratic lawmakers who have gone on the lam in Wisconsin and Indiana-and who knows where else next-are exhibiting a literal fight-or-flight response, the reaction of an animal facing a threat to its very existence. Why? Because it is a threat to their existence. The battle of Wisconsin is about the viability of the Democratic Party, and more: it is about the viability of the basic social ideal of the left. ... MORERepublicans Seek Repeal of Incandescent Bulb Ban
CFLs are more expensive, contain mercury and made in China.Senator Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) has announced that he plans to introduce legislation to reverse the ban on incandescent light bulbs which is scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2014. The ban was included in a comprehensive energy bill that President George W. Bush signed into law in 2007 as an amendment, and was intended as a means ... MORE
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 ... MOREVeronique 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
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