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Senate’s 1099 Repeal Shows Obamacare’s Edifice is Crumbling
Although the U.S. Senate voted along partisan lines Wednesday to defeat repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as…
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Leviathan
How many Americans work in government? That’s a difficult question to answer. Officially, as of 2009, the federal government employed 2.8 million individuals out of…
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Christians In the Middle East and the American Dream
The current uprising in Egypt is troubling many Christians throughout the region, but it is not a stand alone incident. Pope Benedict XVI’s New Year’s…
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Suspend Obamacare’s Burdensome Rules Until SCOTUS Decision
Monday’s decision by Florida federal judge Roger Vinson striking down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — in…
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Are Our Biofuel Mandates Fueling Islamic Extremism in Egypt?
Op-Eds
Liberating Credit Unions and Entrepreneurs
Now more than ever, “civility” is the rage on Capitol Hill. The civility craze may have reached its nadir with what was called “date night”…
Op-Eds
Politicized Science: The ‘Erin Brockovich Chemical’
If you believe the Environmental Working Group’s latest “study,” your drinking water might be contaminated with dangerous levels of a chemical that the group has…
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The Rush to Condemn Genetically Modified Crops
In spite of more than twenty years of scientific, humanitarian, and financial successes and an admirable record of health and environmental safety, genetic engineering applied…
Cigar Magazine
How Many Congressmen Does It Take to Screw the Light Bulb?
Full Document Available in PDF The man at your door appears to be…
Cigar Magazine
No, There Was No Public Offering Made (Letter to the Editor)
In attempting to defend Massachusetts’s censorship of hedge-fund speech to the public, Mike Liles Jr. (Letters, Jan. 22) makes a circular argument that mischaracterizes my…
Cigar Magazine
Empire State or Nanny State: Suffolk should not ban energy drinks
In New York State, 18-year-olds need to show ID to buy cigarettes, get married, and vote. Now one lawmaker wants to make them show ID…
Daily Caller
Bush’s Third Term Continues
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched a satellite into space. Therefore, taxpayers should give more money to politically favored corporations. This is not a…
Daily Caller
Mis-State Of The Union
Politicians rarely think voluntary markets are so grand that they couldn’t benefit from a good ol’ dose of compulsion. It’s a shame, because that…
Daily Caller
On energy policy, Obama talks down to Americans
“Now, clean energy breakthroughs will only translate into clean energy jobs if businesses know there will be a market for what they’re selling. So tonight,…
Washington Times
UAW Doesn’t Care What You Think
United Auto Workers (UAW) President Bob King recently pledged $60 million of his union’s money to pressure foreign automakers into unionizing their employees. He…
Washington Times
Critics say NLRB pursuing card check outside legislative process
The Republican victories last November dashed organized labor’s hopes of Congress passing the Employee Free Choice Ace (EFCA), especially its card check provision, which would…
Washington Times
Repeal Dodd-Frank’s Senseless Volcker Rule
Washington Times
Assault on Alcohol
A dime a drink may not sound that bad, but the deceptive name of Maryland’s proposed new beverage tax hides its real impact on local…
Multi-Housing News Online
Not All Public-Private Partnerships Are Created Equal
In recent years, policymakers have taken to promoting public-private partnerships (PPPs) as somewhat of a silver bullet to various problems. They typically tout them…
AOL News
6 Painless Ways to Cut Federal Red Tape
In this age of trillion-dollar budgets, deficits and stimulus packages, taxes and spending get all the press. But while the $3.5 trillion federal budget…
AOL News
No Call to Arms in Fight Against Health Care Reform (Letter to the Editor)
When I first heard about the Tucson shootings, I expected people to rush out and blame talk radio, regardless of contrary evidence. But I never…
AOL News
Obama Needs To Confront Regulation
Today President Obama released an Executive Order called “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review.” It calls for a government-wide review of rules,…
ARS Technica
Why You Should Always Encrypt Your Smartphone
Last week, California's Supreme Court reached a controversial 5-2 decision in People v. Diaz (PDF), holding that police officers may lawfully search mobile phones found on…
ARS Technica
Ex-Congressman Gets Soapbox for Violent Remarks (Letter to the Editor)
Liberal columnists like Paul Krugman have sought to scapegoat conservatives for the recent shootings in Tucson. But the shooter was once described as a “liberal…
ARS Technica
Politicized Science Costs Us All
After a 21-month delay, White House science adviser John Holdrenhas finally issued a four-page memo on scientific integrity in government. The guidelines demonstrate an intractable…
ARS Technica
The Online Poker Players Next Door
Ask any professional poker player after a losing night what happened, and very rarely will he attribute the outcome to bad luck. There is an…
ARS Technica
The FDA Needs Strong Medicine
Christmas came a couple of weeks late to the business sectors regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. The greatest threat to the success of…
The Wall Street Journal
Our Mistaken Sugar Policy Is Killing American Jobs
I was bemused by David Baxter’s charge that the Competitive Enterprise Institute hasn’t fought against the costly U.S. sugar program and its powerful lobby. Au…
The Wall Street Journal
Financial Info: Banned in Boston
“Banned in Boston.” Those words became a catch phrase in the mid-20th century, as the city was notorious for suppressing works by authors such as…
The Wall Street Journal
Jobs, Joblessness and Obamanomics
“Cross us and people will die.” That is the message the public can take away from last week’s New York snow-removal meltdown (no pun intended).
The Wall Street Journal
Financial Stability Council Violates the Constitution (Letter to the Editor)
C. Boyden Gray’s Dec. 31 Washington Forum commentary, “Wall Street reform that flouts the law,” rightly criticized the secrecy, unchecked bureaucratic power and constitutional…
The Wall Street Journal
Sack Vilsack!
Something is very wrong at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The secretary, Tom Vilsack, is letting hypothetical claims by organic farmers–who produce less than 1%…
The Wall Street Journal
What the New Congress Can Do For the Technology Sector
This week the Consumer Electronics Show will eat Las Vegas whole, and it’s an awesome thing to behold. Here’s hoping that the affiliated…
The Wall Street Journal
Rekindling The American DREAM
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act) died a slow death before Christmas, failing to gain the 60 votes necessary to…
The Wall Street Journal
Choosing the Right State Insurance Commissioner Matters
“And what manner of man dares to assume the post of insurance commissioner?” LA Weekly columnist Hillel Aron asked recently. It is an important question…
The Wall Street Journal
Cancun Climate Talks Fizzle, But U.S. Agrees to Expensive New Program
The Wall Street Journal
No Comfort and Joy Over Holiday Gas Prices
It wasn’t a very merry Christmas for America’s motorists, as pump prices averaged $3 per gallon nationwide for the first time since 2008. President Obama’s…
The Wall Street Journal
The Environmental Protection Agency’s End-Run Around Democracy
In a recent issue of the Daily Caller, reporter Jonathan Strong asserts that EPA’s global warming regulations are “no end-run around Congress,” because “This time Congress…
The Wall Street Journal
A Spoonful of Sugar Will Soon Cost More
Despite many years of success with genetically modified plants, various environmentalists won’t stop trying to obstruct biotech foodstuffs. First they tried to frighten consumers away…
The Wall Street Journal
Manufacturing Unemployment
For most Americans, persistently high unemployment is a new development — but employment in the manufacturing sector has been taking a beating for decades. Painful…
The Wall Street Journal
Labels Won’t Solve Obesity and Alcoholism
The National Consumers’ NCL says the absence of nutritional labeling on alcoholic beverages contributes to everything from alcohol abuse to obesity, and they want the…
The Wall Street Journal
Jobs, Joblessness and Obamanomics
While watching one of the news shows I had recorded over the weekend, a particular panelist’s comment stood out for its rare feat of actually…
The Wall Street Journal
What Will Really Make Us Fat In the New Year
Your New Year’s resolution might involve diet and exercise but according to news sources that might not shrink your waistline. Reporst say man-made chemicals called…
The Wall Street Journal
For the TSA, all risks are created equal
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, recently told The Atlantic in an interview that “we’ll never eliminate risk” of terrorist attacks on…
The Wall Street Journal
Global Warming Goes Gaga
It’s the coldest winter on record in Great Britain. Great Britain also has experienced its heaviest snowfalls since the 1920s. The mayor of London, who…
The Wall Street Journal
The Enemy Within
In the early 1980s, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious from a war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands that propelled her to a…
The Wall Street Journal
Alcohol Rules Disrupt Holiday Cheer
Appeared in: The Providence Journal You might want to send a beautifully packaged wine and cheese gift basket to friends in New York State.
The Wall Street Journal
The Fed’s Christmas Gift: Reduced Fees for Fat-Cat Merchants
On a snowy Thursday in the nation’s capital – with little more than a week to go until Christmas – the Board of Governors of…
The Wall Street Journal
Judge Should Have Struck Down Entire Law (Letter to the Editor)
This editorial about a federal judge striking down Obamacare’s individual insurance-purchase mandate rightly noted that the law lacks a severability clause. Because of…
The Wall Street Journal
Fed Interchange Price Controls Leave Consumers Paying Big
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve — at the direction of Congress in the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” bill — will give a…
The Wall Street Journal
Democrats Diverging From Unions
Government employee unions have long been one of the Democratic Party’s most loyal and dedicated constituencies. For years, Democratic politicians have supported public employee unions’…
The Wall Street Journal
Crying a River for Years
The Wall Street Journal
GM Bad Deal
In his 1953 confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense in the incoming Eisenhower administration, former General Motors CEO Charles “Engine Charlie” Wilson was asked how…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Rail in Ohio (Letter to the Editor)
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Obama’s GM Numbers Are Not Adding Up
Before Thanksgiving, President barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden did a victory lap at friendly venues across the country in the wake of the…
The Daily Caller
Federal Pay Freeze: More Things Stay the Same
Five short months after Democrats called Republicans’ suggestion to freeze federal pay a “cynical ploy,” President Obama announces his plan to freeze federal paychecks…
The Daily Caller
Will the Supreme Court Empower Trial Lawyers to ‘Legislate’ Climate Policy?
Earlier this week, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from five electric utilities in a case called State of Connecticut v. American Electric Power. …
The Daily Caller
Keep Privacy Policies Private
Like the lame duck itself, the online privacy turkey waddles on this December. It’s headed for January and the next Congress. Along with proposed legislation,…
The Daily Caller
Legalizing Online Gambling Is A No-Brainer
Sometimes things do change in Washington, often unexpectedly. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, once an opponent of online gambling, is now circulating draft legislation to…
Washington Examiner
Government Health Programs Skew Incentives; People Respond
Forget QE2; this is QED. When a health-care providing government pays doctors according to how many procedures they perform, rather than by the effectiveness or…
Washington Examiner
WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange in Australian Times
Julian Assange, Wikileaks mastermind, writes in today’s Australian Times: WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with…
Tech Liberation
Does Wikileaks Have a First Amendment Case Against Joe Lieberman?
Amazon made headlines last week when it abruptly cut off service to Wikileaks, allegedly on the grounds that the site had violated Amazon’s terms of acceptable…
Tech Liberation
Was Prohibition Repealed?
This Sunday, December 5, many people will raise their glasses and celebrate Repeal Day — the anniversary of the end of Prohibition, a day when…
Tech Liberation
The Jobs O Hates
For all his talk of job creation, President Obama has targeted many occupations for extinction. Using un-elected bureaucrats to implement a host of job-killing measures,…
Tech Liberation
Ethanol’s Policy Privileges: Heading for History’s Dustbin?
The lame-duck Congress has a rare opportunity to avoid $25-30 billion in new deficit spending over the next five years, ease consumers’ pain at the…
Tech Liberation
Alternative Energy and the Academy at Lagado
A lot of otherwise sensible people have been calling recently for massive government investment in alternative energy research, arguing that it is the only solution…
Tech Liberation
Federal workers will still receive raises despite pay freeze
Among the many suggestions for deficit reduction in the recently released Fiscal Commission report is a 15 cents-per-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax. This…
Tech Liberation
Federal workers will still receive raises despite pay freeze
Appeared in: Yahoo! News, FoxNews.com President Obama’s proposal of a pay freeze for federal employees is a small step towards curbing government spending.
Tech Liberation
More FDA Authority Won’t Improve Food Safety
In its rush to enact sweeping new food safety legislation during the lame-duck session, Congress hit a procedural roadblock that may put the bill off…
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Do You Really Want the IRS to Do Your Taxes?
Appeared In: The Centre Daily, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Smart Pros, The Sun News, The New Hampshire Union Leader,…
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
Unleashing U.S. Energy Resources Could Spark Economic Recovery
Among the many suggestions for deficit reduction in the recently released Fiscal Commission report is a 15 cents-per-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax. This…
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Environmental Impact Subterfuge
Action needs to be taken to prevent anti-biotech activists from co-opting environmental law to derail the planting of transgenic crops that have already received regulatory…
The Sacramento Bee
Never Ready for Prime Time
Appeared…
The Sacramento Bee
GM Shares Are Artificially Inflated (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to note that General Motors’ supposed “success story” is actually a money-loser for taxpayers. Not only did GM’s recent sale of…
The Daily Caller
Taxpayers pay the federal government to sue itself
The federal government is paying environmental advocacy organizations billions of dollars — to fund lawsuits against itself. When the government has to pay or settle,…
The Daily Caller
It’s Time to End the Ethanol Boondoggle
Hot Air
Why the feds are selling GM stock at a loss
First, the government is what is known as a “motivated seller.” By offering such a low stock price, the administration is essentially admitting that it…
Hot Air
Obama includes Toyota, Hyundai and Kia in 75,000 jobs “created” by GM bailout
President Barack Obama and his administration have cited numerous job statistics after last week’s successful initial public offering of General Motors. John Berlau, director of…
Tech Liberation
Five Ways Congress Can Fix COICA Copyright Bill
On November 18, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” (COICA). The bill would enable the U.S. Attorney General…
Tech Liberation
What’s Good for GM Is Now Terrible for America
In his 1953 confirmation hearing for Secretary of Defense in the incoming Eisenhower administration, former General Motors CEO Charles “Engine Charlie” Wilson was asked how…
Washington Times
The Ecological Monster Who Said… Peep
Call it the Election Day dog that didn’t bark – or, possibly, the oiled bird that didn’t fly. The BP oil spill had virtually no…
AOL News
Court Should Kill California’s Video Game Law
Free expression in the digital age faces a major test before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier this month, the court heard oral arguments debating the…
AOL News
GM selling at a loss should tell you something
When a government sells stock in a company, it is usually trying to maximize short-term revenue. Therefore, the share price is normally pegged at what…
AOL News
Immigration law a threat to Texas competitiveness
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, made headlines recently for prefiling an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be…
AOL News
Agencies target ‘blackout in a can’
Journal Sentinel
Stop pretending that it’s high-speed rail
On Nov. 2, voters across Wisconsin made their voices clear on government-run passenger rail: Don't build it. Voters in Dane, Kenosha and Racine counties soundly…
Wall Street Journal
Energy Department’s Green Bank is a Waste of Money (Letter to the Editor)
Unfortunately for American taxpayers, the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program is even worse than the Journal thinks. Running a bank is outside the…
Wall Street Journal
Texas Should Not Copy the Arizona Anti-Immigration Law
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle made headlines recently for introducing an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be disastrous for…
Wall Street Journal
Bill Would End Right to Work in All States
Samuel Gompers, the first and longest-serving president of the American Federation of Labor, once said, “There may be here and there a worker who for…
Wall Street Journal
Cap-and-tax is Dead but Kyotoism is Alive and Well at the EPA
Cap-and-tax may be dead in Congress but the Kyoto agenda of stealth energy taxes marches on at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Although the Clean…
Wall Street Journal
Debbie Riddle’s Arizona-Style Immigration Law Would be a Disaster for Texas
Texas state Rep. Debbie Riddle made headlines last week for introducing an Arizona-style immigration law called HB 17. An Arizona-style anti-immigration law would be…
Wall Street Journal
Ritter Plan Tied to Phantom Carbon Tax
Ratepayers can’t see it on their bill, and they won’t hear about it from Gov. Bill Ritter. But a central component of his New Energy…
Trib Live
High-speed train wreck
Appeared in: The Bellingham Herald, Lexington Herald-Leader, Athens Banner-Herald, The Sacramento Bee, Great Falls Tribune, Fort Worth…
Trib Live
Instant Reform: Measure The Hidden Tax Of Regulation
If Congress doesn’t grapple with the regulatory state, this economy can’t regain footing. You don’t have to tell the grass to grow; you simply have…
Trib Live
Big Government’s Final Frontier
There’s something about space policy that makes conservatives forget their principles. Just one mention of NASA, and conservatives are quite happy to check their small-government…
Trib Live
The Election’s Over, So Let’s Get Back to Business
President Obama recently warned that the current high unemployment could be “a new normal” in the United States. If his administration doesn’t change course…
Investors' Business Daily
Tax Preparers Shouldn’t Get IRS Favors
Taxes are big business. And not just for the federal government, which collects over $1 trillion per year in income tax revenue alone. Because the…
Investors' Business Daily
Big Labor May Still Reap Benefits Despite Election Losses
Organized labor’s fears were realized Tuesday when Republicans won a decisive majority in the House, almost eviscerated the Democrat majority in the Senate and picked…
Investors' Business Daily
The Oversight Begins: CEI Suing NASA Over its Own ClimateGate
Daily Caller
A Giant Awakens?
Yesterday’s election could be the start of something grand — but not because Republicans won the House. Many of the Obama administration’s policies, including…