Op-Eds/Articles

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/31/2014

As the economy has continued to falter under his watch, President Obama’s response has been to try to hang the albatross of the nation’s woes…

• By: Hans Bader
• 03/28/2014

Milwaukee Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. notes that schools’ well-meaning attempts “to hold black kids accountable by enforcing codes of conduct are called racist” by…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 03/25/2014

From buying “organic” to “gluten-free,” consumers seem to be more interested than ever in the ways their food is produced. This spring, legislators in more…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 03/25/2014

Washington refuses to control spending, and it certainly doesn’t control the costs of federal regulations it imposes on citizens at the rate of over 3,500…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/25/2014

Official time” is the process by which taxpayers subsidize unions whose full-time officials are nominally government employees by paying them as if they were working…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/24/2014

After many years in Washington, D.C., it’s hard not to notice how little it has changed since President Kennedy called it “a city of Southern…

• By: Iain Murray
• 03/20/2014

Representative Sean Duffy (R., Wis.) recently attempted to attend an advisory committee meeting of the Consumer Financial Protection Board. The agency declined to let him…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/17/2014

Ostensibly, Spartan mothers, as their sons went into battle, would say, “Come home with your shield, or on it!” I did not say such encouraging…

• By: Aloysius Hogan
• 03/16/2014

Imperial president? Moi? In announcing a contentious overtime-pay proposal on Thursday, President Obama seems to have shed any pretense of willingness…

• By: John Berlau
• 03/14/2014

Last month, America celebrated the birthday of one of the country's earliest business innovators and large-scale entrepreneurs.  During a time period of America's existence as…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/11/2014

Contrary to Laura MacCleery's claim ("Energy drinks can kill," March 5), I never asserted that the FDA gave energy drinks a "green light." Rather,…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/10/2014

Government spending—everybody’s talking about it. But unlike the weather, everyone wants to do something about it. Last week, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 03/03/2014

I must confess that when asked to speak at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), I was reminded of Tom Lehrer’s classic satirical song,…

• By: Iain Murray
• 02/27/2014

Those words are Norman French for “The Queen wills it.” It is used to announce the Royal Assent to a bill passed by the Parliament…

• By: Marlo Lewis, Jr.
• 02/25/2014

Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA. The case is the first since Massachusetts v. EPA (2007) to…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/24/2014

While Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) may proudly brand herself a populist, in her latest crusade she is casting her lot with the fat cats.

• By: Lawson Bader
• 02/24/2014

Last week I was in familiar territory—leveling off at 38,000 feet somewhere over the Midwest’s rural patchwork. I travel frequently and I actually enjoy it.

• By: Lawson Bader
• 02/18/2014

I pondered that recently, when I spoke at a symposium titled, “(What’s so funny ‘bout) Debt, Budgets and Sequestration?” But my thoughts turned to weightier…

• By: John Berlau
• 02/17/2014

This month, America celebrates the birthday of one of the country’s earliest business innovators and large-scale entrepreneurs. During America’s existence as a British colony and…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 02/10/2014

The U.S. Capitol Police might investigate me for saying this, but Guy Fawkes was onto something that fateful evening beneath the House of Lords in…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Young
• 02/03/2014

Foreign policy, budgets, deficits, immigration, healthcare—the president’s annual State of the Union address covers a lot of ground. But in some areas, it doesn't cover…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 02/03/2014

Not another State of the Union column! Well, you’re in luck. The annual January spectacle has become such a part of the nation’s media furniture…

• By: Liz Thatcher
• 01/30/2014

One major problem with Obamacare that the president failed to mention in his State of the Union address is pending regulations that could make food…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 01/27/2014

Students of politics understand the historical importance of the “Reagan Democrats”—those predominantly working-class cultural conservatives who were integral to both of Ronald Reagan’s successful campaigns…

• By: Angela Logomasini
• 01/23/2014

Many people with compromised immune systems use antibacterial soaps and gels, particularly when they’re on the go, to reduce health risks. But environmentalists have launched…

• By: Lawson Bader
• 01/20/2014

Score one for Obamacare. Last week, a federal court struck down one of the major legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act. Washington, D.C. District…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 01/17/2014

If you believe in limited government and free enterprise, ending a state-run liquor monopoly should seem like a no-brainer. So why is a Virginia Republican…

• By: William Frezza
• 01/14/2014

Like many an engineer who got nary a whiff of a liberal education, I’ve spent the last 35 years trying to make up for it…