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War on Coal Escalates
Faced with rising gas prices, President Obama recently outlined what he calls an “all-of-the-above” energy policy “that develops every available source of American energy…
Op-Eds
The Export-Import Bank Should Be an Ex-Bank
Among the nation’s failing financial institutions the Export-Import Bank has received little notice. Now, however, the House and Senate are considering whether to reauthorize the…
Op-Eds
Two Budget Proposals Demonstrate the Depth of the Political Divide in the U.S.
This morning, House budget committee chairman Paul Ryan (R.-WI) unveiled his budget proposal, which took aim at the culture of debt financing that most analysts…
Op-Eds
New IRS Rule Benefits Only Foreign Dictators
Since when is it the U.S. government’s job to report on the financial activities of foreign nationals to their home governments? It is now. The…
Op-Eds
On Both Sides of Atlantic, Faceless Bureaucrats Are Assailing Religious Freedom
In late January, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a rule that requires nearly all employers, including many affiliated with religious…
Op-Eds
Obama’s Amazing Energy Spin Machine
The bankruptcy of Ener1, a “green energy” firm that got a $118 million stimulus grant, has brought the Obama administration’s commitment to sinking billions of…
BBC
How ‘Europe’ Became a Dirty Word in the U.S. Election
BBC
When ‘Being Green’ Means Subsidies For Rich, Harm for Poor
One thing we can expect in President Obama’s State of the Union speech is for him to echo his declaration from last month, “That’s…
Blog
John Kay on the Market Economy
In a truly excellent column for the Financial Times today, John Kay lays out in a few hundred words a clear defense of the…
BBC
Obama Channels Cheney
(Appeared in The Sacramento Bee, The Miami Herald and The Monteray County Herald) When Vice President Dick Cheney held secret meetings for his…
Blog
Re-organizing the Federal Government to Crush Opposition
One of the few virtues of the federal government has been its inefficiency. With functions spread out across different agencies and duplicated powers and responsibilities,…
Daily Caller
Obama Reorganizes Government, Adds Inefficiencies, Expands Economic Footprint
Daily Caller
Commerce Head Wants Consumers to Pay More for Energy
Americans spent more on gas this year as percentage of their income than at any other time in 30 years. To most people this would…
Daily Caller
Avoiding a Lost Decade
Remember Japan’s “lost decade” of the 1990s? For the United States, 2011 was the “lost year.” Congress and President Obama are engaged…
Politico
Left Bloggers Hail “New Obama”
Hot Air
Obama Follows Cordray Recess Appointment With Three More to NLRB
Hot Air
Britain’s Future Lies With America, Not Europe
In 1952, then-U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson said that “Britain has lost an empire but has failed to find a role.” Sadly for Britain,…
Washington Post
The Death of Kim Jong Il and the Unraveling of North Korea and More
Washington Post
Create Wealth, Not Jobs
Spending on construction and infrastructure jobs is a perennial favorite of government stimulus boosters. “There’s no reason for Republicans in Congress to stand in…
Blog
A Nice Review of Stealing You Blind
David Hogberg of Investor’s Business Daily and The American Spectator has a very complimentary review of my book, Stealing You Blind: How Government Fatcats…
Blog
Time to Include Britain in NAFTA?
On Monday, I sent this letter to the editor of the Financial Times in response to an appalling column by former British apparatchik Jonathan…
The American Spectator
The Grinches Who Stole Christmas
The American Spectator
A Cautionary Tale on Government Spying
Who enforces the law? Most people would answer that this is the central function of government. However, America’s federal government has increasingly distanced itself from…
The American Spectator
Where’s the Money to Save the Euro Coming From? Not Us!
Markets rallied last week on news of central bank intervention to ease indebted European governments’ liquidity problems, but the central problem remains. Europe is in…
The American Spectator
The Regulatory Thicket
How to Do ItIn the seemingly endless debate about how to put Americans back to work, one solution dare not speak its name: deregulation.
The American Spectator
A Federal Black Friday
Black Friday this year was a roaring success. I have heard it said that it is called Black Friday not because it inspires black tempers…
The American Spectator
Manhattan Moment: Here’s the Right Way to Do Regulatory Relief
In the seemingly endless debate about how to put Americans back to work, one solution dare not speak its name: deregulation. Yet if implemented correctly,…
The American Spectator
The EU Just Repudiated Itself and Nobody Noticed
American Thinker
Will Germany Choose Another Gotterdämmerung?
American Thinker
Obama’s Education Disaster
“We’re laying off teachers in droves,” President Obama told a crowd recently. “It makes no sense. It has to stop.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,…
American Thinker
The Euro Was Always a Bad Bet
Rumors are flying around Europe that Chancellor Merkel of Germany and President Sarkozy of France are making plans for a smaller eurozone, including provisions…
American Thinker
EPA Jackboots?
When Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson recently ridiculed her opponents as thinking of EPA officials as “jack-booted thugs,” she should have thought through exactly…
Bryan Triangle
Occupying the Wrong Place
The Times and Democrat
Halloween Warnings Not Just Paranoia
Wall Street Journal
The Fiscal Union Delusion
Any day now, the leaders of the euro zone will present a grand plan to prevent future fiscal or financial crises from threatening the single…
Wall Street Journal
The Stimulus Delusion
Popular delusions are always debunked, but rarely before they do a lot of harm. The ancient physician Galen believed that bloodletting, the forced removal of…
Blog
The Unemployment Discrimination Myth
The defunct American Jobs Act, which Hans skewered so well a while back, contains a provision to end “discrimination against the unemployed.” Apparently, there…
Wall Street Journal
A Plan to Chill Employment
What are the best two ways to maintain unemployment? First, forbid people from working. Then pay them not to work. Maryland may soon get a…
Wall Street Journal
Occupy 14th Street
Wall Street Journal
Clean Air’s Dirty Residue
A lot has been made of recent court filings in which the Environmental Protection Agency suggested that it needed 230,000 more bureaucrats to regulate…
Wall Street Journal
Stimulus Slows Our Economy
Why does government stimulus spending fail? When considering the success of economic programs, the 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat urged us to look at both…
Wall Street Journal
Obama the Greek
Greece is in economic meltdown. Its economy has become so biased towards the public sector that it is now literally unsustainable. It cannot afford to…
Wall Street Journal
All Hail President Blair!
This column was written before the president’s Thursday night speech on job creation, but that matters little. The principle behind Obama’s speech — that government…
National Review
What the President Should Say Tonight
National Review
Needed: Budget Reforms to Save Money Into the Future
National Review
Do We Really Need a National Weather Service?
CEI Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray knows that up-to-the-minute weather information is too crucial to leave in the hands of government. He argues that…
National Review
Do We Really Need a National Weather Service?
As Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, news stations bombard our televisions with constant updates from the National Hurricane Center. While Americans ought…
National Review
Forget Corporate Jets. Government Limousines Show They’re Stealing You Blind
President Obama has made a big deal out of corporate jets. Apparently they are a symbol not of success but of greed. Yet even…
National Review
The Government War on Young Enterprise
Let’s start in Britain so we can see where we’re going. The first thing to know is…
Study
Stealing You Blind
Remember when we used to call government employees “public servants”? They’re servants no more—now they’re bureaucratic masters of the universe, claiming inflated salaries and early…