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Obama Seeks More Double Taxation and Job-Killing Taxes in State of the Union Address

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In his State of the Union Address, President Obama called for tax increases on the wealthy, such as by increasing the top tax rate…

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Terrorist Attack on Charlie Hebdo Reveals the Sorry State of Free Speech in the West

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  • 01/08/2015

My wife Sylvie, who grew up in France, is terribly shocked about yesterday’s terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, which murdered 12 people, including…

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Bureaucrats Demand That Harvard Parrot Their Uncodified Views about Sexual Harassment

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  • 01/07/2015

Can agency officials declare you in violation of the law, not for actions that flout the text of a statute, but for failing to parrot…

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Central “Planning” Often Creates Disorder, While the Free Market Provides Consistency

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Government planning often contains contradictory elements that provide inconsistent signals for regulated entities about how to behave. For example, the New Deal of the 1930s…

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Dodd-Frank’s Conflict Minerals Rules Increase Misery

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Earlier, we wrote about the misery inflicted upon the Congo and millions of desperately poor people by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act’s “conflict minerals” provisions. A…

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Taxpayer-Funded Green Ministries in Prince George’s County Violate the Constitution

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  • 11/21/2014

Reporters like separation of church and state, unless it’s progressives violating it. Then, they lose interest in the concept. A recent Washington Post story cheerily reported on churches…

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