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Comprehensive Redux
The Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Act (CIR ASAP) was introduced last week by Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, Illinois…
Op-Eds
Court’s Ruling on Banning Cigarette’s on Stage
The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to uphold a clearly unconstitutional ban is deplorable, but worse is the way free-speech advocates are defending…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
EPA Delivers Lump of Coal to Appalachia
If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, the Environmental Protection Agency would still investigate. This corny…
Washington Times
A Green Woodstock
Don't be fooled by the lavish media attention given to raucous anti-globalization types at the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United National Framework…
Washington Times
Rebuttal: Michigan’s Auto Insurers Make Only a Small Profit
About the Nov. 30 article "Industry balks at bills aimed at auto insurance reform": Before we listen to politicians who claim greedy…
Washington Times
Immigration Limits Don’t Protect Us
Patrick J. Buchanan’s "Halting immigration would be an instant stimulus package" (Dec. 9) blithely ignores economic reality when he states that a moratorium on…
Washington Times
An EPA Power Grab
Environmental Protec tion Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson yesterday an nounced that the EPA has determined that global warming, allegedly caused by mankind’s…
Washington Times
Did Deregulation Cause the Great Recession?
In a December 3 article in Politico ("J-O-Bs should come before GDP"), Rep. Phil Hare argues that "reckless deregulation" is one of the causes…
Washington Examiner
Feds Should Free up Airwaves to Spur Wireless Growth
Every time you make a cell phone call, send a text message, or visit a website on your smartphone, you are using the airwaves. Collectively…
Washington Examiner
Letter to the Editor: Retailers Want to Shift Their Costs onto Consumers
It’s a real pity that The Examiner’s Nov. 27 lead story – billed with the screaming front-page headline "Credit cards show no pity" –…
Washington Examiner
Let Immigrants Power America’s Scientific Prowess
The melee surrounding President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize distracted everyone from another potential Nobel controversy. Of the eight American citizens who received Nobel…
Forbes.com
Show Me the Warming
It’s the science scandal of the year. A thousand e-mails and 2,000 other documents were swiped from the server of Britain’s Climate Research Unit at…
Forbes.com
Chris Horner: Climate-Gate E-Mails Released by Whistleblower, Not Hacker
After reams of information were posted on a Russian server detailing the inner workings at the highest — and highest-compensated — levels of what’s…
The Cato Institute
Vallejo Con Dios
Full Study Available In PDF Study Co-Authored by: Don Bellante and David Denholm Rates of unionization in the United States today are…
The Cato Institute
More Cowbell
How do you turn a company from a small Internet start-up into a billion-dollar-a-year business? We wish we knew, but we can tentatively say…
The Cato Institute
The Other L.A.
The hot and humid impoverished region of Lago Agrio has unusual tourism traffic these days. Its renowned Toxic Tours have attracted many…
The Cato Institute
The UAW’s Shell Game
The United Autoworkers (UAW) and GM are asking the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for a chance to play the old shell game. In back…
The Cato Institute
Health Care is Not a Right
President Obama argues that his party’s health care reform proposals are about “bending the price curve” However, the Democrats’ health care agenda is really…
Investors' Business Daily
VAT Would Be One Big Tub of Trouble
Ask a man on the street what VAT means. After giving you a strange look, he'll probably give an answer along the lines of "a…
Investors' Business Daily
Letter to the Editor: Obsession With Diversity Led to Security Lapses
The Examiner was right to criticize Gen. George Casey for foolishly claiming that a backlash against politically correct "diversity" in the military would be…
Washington Examiner
Andrew Cuomo Should Leave Intel Alone
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on November 4 that he is suing Intel for antitrust violations. Cuomo’s lawsuit is a mistake. He…
Washington Examiner
Government Can’t Marshal Doctors Who Aren’t There
Herbert Pardes omits the cheapest and best solution to the shortage of physicians: increasing the legal immigration of foreign doctors. The H-1B…
Go Erie
Global Warming Conclusions Rapped
Penn State Behrend professor John Paul Rossi says “greenhouse gases are warming the planet at a rate that is growing faster even than the worst…
Cigar Magazine
Congress, Tobacco, And a President Who Lights Up
It’s called the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act but, outside of its title, the word “family” appears nowhere in the bill. It was…
Opposing Views
Should We Be Worried About Cell Phones and Cancer
CNN reports: “Last summer, Dr. Ronald Herberman, then director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, issued a warning to about 3,000 faculty and…
Forbes
Sued for Success
Computer chip maker Intel is back in court. On Wednesday, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against…
American Spectator
Yes, Virginia Foxx
Jaws dropped when the government announced recently that the national debt would increase by $14,000,000,000,000 over the next decade. Right now, roughly every third dollar…
American Spectator
The Four Horseman of Cap-and-Trade Defeatism: There’s Only One “Certainty”
There’s a rumor making the rounds among those whose goose is intended to be cooked by passage of the pending "cap-and-trade" energy rationing legislation.
American Spectator
Eliminating Antitrust Exemption Will Kill Health Care Competition
If the insurance industry thought its early support for health care reform would earn it some points with Democrats, it recently got a rude…
American Spectator
1 Year Later-Obama’s Legacy of Lies and Broken Promises
It’s been a year since the president was elected, and he’s already piled up an impressive list of lies and broken promises.
American Spectator
Wall Street Journal: House Health Care Plan “Worst Bill Ever”
The Wall Street Journal calls the House version of President Obama’s health care plan “the worst bill ever,” noting that it will lead to…
Heartland Institute
‘Amazon Taxes’ Fad Harmful to States, Consumers, Business
Tax revenues have been plunging during the current recession, and states have been scrambling for ways to bolster their depleted coffers by looking online. While…
Heartland Institute
Mr. Franken’s Arbitration Amendment
Kathleen Parker rightly criticized Sen. Al Franken’s amendment banning defense contractors from enforcing arbitration clauses [“The ‘rape supporter’ ploy,” op-ed, Oct. 25]. Although the…
Orange County Register
Let the State Choose Your TV?
There are many things to consider when choosing a television to buy. Some consumers care about color contrast. Others want high resolution. And still others…
Orange County Register
GOP Should Grow the Party, Grow the Economy, Shrink the State
Republicans have been getting a lot of advice lately. Democrats have urged them to join the state expansionist party, to agree that markets have…
Orange County Register
Look Ahead to Fantastic Media Opportunities
Sir, Leonard Downie (“American journalism needs public support”, October 21) interestingly documented the rise of new and the demise of old journalism in a…
Investor's Business Daily
The Administration’s Flu Fear-Mongering
‘In keeping with the administration’s proactive approach” to swine flu, the White House has announced that President Obama has declared the disease “a national emergency.”…
Investor's Business Daily
Sure, Just What We Need: Yet Another Regulatory Government Agency
YOUR Oct. 15 editorial “To fix financial system, protect consumers first’’ claims that a Consumer Financial Protection Agency would prevent a “recurrence’’ of…
Investor's Business Daily
Hazardous to Your Health
As U.S. lawmakers mull over whether to restructure the nation’s health-care system via a “public option,” even the biggest advocates of government intervention should…
American Spectator
Kerry Looks for a Legacy
After cap-and-trade energy legislation cleared the first test in the House of Representatives this summer, it stalled in the world's most deliberative body. Then, John…
Wall Street Journal
One of These Groups is Wrong About Climate Policy
I would like to add a point to your editorial "Apple, Nike and the U. S. Chamber" (Oct. 14). In supporting energy-rationing legislation, Apple…
Investors' Business Daily
Memo to Spitzer: It’s Not Your Money
Disgraced former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer went on a rant last week. Hurling half-truths and red herring arguments in an article for Slate, he…
Investors' Business Daily
It’s Raining, You’re Snoring
In his book "The Audacity of Hope," Barack Obama acknowledged that "sometimes there are facts that cannot be spun, just as an argument about…
Investors' Business Daily
“Gifted Hands” Surgeon Rips into Obamacare
As the Senate Finance Committee completed its work on a bill that would greatly expand the government’s role in health care – requiring nearly…
Investors' Business Daily
Not So Peachy Advice
Recently featured on Good Morning America, the Environmental Working Group identified a “dirty dozen” list for the most contaminated produce that includes: peaches, apples,…
Investors' Business Daily
Catastrophe Fund: Florida System Dangerously Unstable
As September passed by, much of the news here in Florida appears good: Hurricanes have stayed away from U.S. coastlines, the Legislature has passed…
Investors' Business Daily
Our Nobel Prize Winning Immigrants
Americans dominated the 2009 Nobel Prizes for the sciences. Eight of the nine winners were American citizens. What is even more striking is that…
Investors' Business Daily
Feds Target Bloggers with New Disclosure Rules
Bloggers beware: Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission extended the heavy hand of government into the blogosphere (and other social media sites like…
Investors' Business Daily
Don’t Drive Away Auto Insurers
In recent weeks, political leaders have vented their anger at Michigan’s auto insurers. State Sen. Martha Scott held a rally at the capital in…
Investors' Business Daily
Rationalizing Rationing
Apple Inc. may have drunk the Kool-Aid, but most of the companies feuding with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over climate policy are energy-rationing…