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Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Untouched in Financial Overhaul
The mortgage crisis was caused largely by the reckless government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and by federal affordable-housing mandates. But Obama’s…
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Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Untouched in Financial Overhaul
The mortgage crisis was caused largely by the reckless government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and by federal affordable-housing mandates. But Obama’s…
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Eliminating Prison Rape
It has been far too long in coming but, yesterday, the Federal Prison Rape Elimination commission released its report on elimination and prevention efforts…
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Nationalization Review
Given the Obama administration’s rapid takeovers of General Motors and Chrysler, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to conservatives that, in the…
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Obama Signs “Deceptive” FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill
Yesterday, Obama signed into law a deceptive FDA “tobacco regulation” bill that will undermine public health in the long run by protecting cigarette manufacturers…
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Ecuador’s Counterproductive Fight Against Illegal Immigration
Ecuador’s government has devised a new way to discourage illegal immigrants, mainly from Cuba and China, from entering into fake marriages with natives in…
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Time for a Raise
Are Democrats in Congress really not supporting a Republican bill to allow union workers to earn more money? That was not a misprint: Republicans in…
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Waxman-Markey: Death Knell for U.S. Jobs, Low-Cost Energy
Perhaps the most destructive legislation in our country’s history will soon be voted on in the House — the Waxman-Markey tax bill in the guise…
National Review
Regulated to Death
May 19 was a perfect day for a White House photo op. The sun was out, the Rose Garden was full, and everyone was…
National Review
Accident Chasers
Gov. Charlie Crist might have missed the mark with some of the bills he signed last week, but his Tuesday signing of a ban…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Rubbish and Bad Regulations
Ever since gas hit $4 a gallon on June 8 of last year, energy policy has been an all-consuming passion of America's political class. Thus,…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
How to Start a Trade War: Rep. Neal’s Terrible Plan to Tax Offshore Reinsurance Companies
For much of the last decade, Massachusetts Democrat Richard Neal has banged away at proposals for vast tax increases on "offshore affiliated reinsurance"–coverage that…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Obama Stimulus Package Is Destroying Jobs
The Examiner was right to protest President Barack Obama’s firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin after he exposed wrongdoing by prominent Obama supporter Kevin…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
FDA’s Bad Medicine
President Barack Obama promised to shake up the Food and Drug Administration, so it’s no surprise that his new FDA leadership team has made…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Obama’s Latest Economic Overhaul Calls for More Risky Loans
The President has just announced proposals for a massive overhaul of the financial system. The proposals would force banks to make even MORE risky…
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Tourism Bill to be Combined with Hate Crimes Bill
If you were a tourist, would you like to come to a country where you could be tried twice for the same crime…
American Spectator
Farmer Brown Fights Back
To all appearances, green special interests are on a roll. They have managed to get committed environmentalists appointed to key congressional committees and regulatory positions.
American Spectator
Obama Administration = Waste, Corruption, Corporate Welfare
Rapidly-rising Medicare spending already threatens “to crush the federal budget,” and much Medicare spending is wasteful, yet the Obama Administration claims it…
American Spectator
Bill in Congress Would Make a Bad Situation Worse
As the 2009 hurricane season enters its early weeks, Alabama residents need to check their windows, stock up on non-perishable food and make sure…
American Spectator
Retirees and Pensions Fuel GM’s Downfall
General Motors has declared bankruptcy as a result of a number of things — bad management, poor products and screwy labor relations. But in…
American Spectator
Will Americans (Literally) Be Dying For ObamaCare?
Remember Harry and Louise, the made-for-television couple whose advertisements helped scuttle the Clinton health care plan 16 years ago? President Barack Obama does. Every…
American Spectator
An Unnecessary Insurance Burden
As it girds for the busy months of hurricane season, Mississippi has plenty to worry about. Homeowner’s insurance coverage remains difficult to find and…
American Spectator
Senate Passes Bill to Give FDA Tobacco Regulation
The Senate has just passed the FDA tobacco regulation bill by a 79-to-17 vote. The bill now goes to President Obama, who has said…
American Spectator
Another Flaw in Hate Crimes Bill
Stuart Taylor rightly criticized the new federal hate crimes bill (“The Kind of Villains We Prefer,” May 28, Page 62). But he left out…
American Spectator
Suit Over Raunchy Radio Programs To Be Reheard in Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide
Can you sue your employer because your co-workers listen to raunchy radio programs? A federal appeals court is reconsidering its 2008 ruling…
American Spectator
The EPA’s Protection Racket
The Environmental Protection Agency is making “significant strides” on issues such as “protecting children’s health” and “confronting climate change,” says a memo from EPA…
American Spectator
SOS Ballot: An Interview with Ernest Istook
Full document available in PDF Ernest Istook, Chairman of Save Our Secret Ballot (SOS Ballot), was interviewed by former Labor Department official…
Washington Examiner
To Stimulate the Economy, Let it be Free
Lobbying is about the only sector of the economy experiencing a boom right now. This is a predictable effect of the tax-and-spend stimulus model favored…
Washington Examiner
Bad Idea Blowing an Ill Wind for Insured
The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has ended up at the brink of insolvency paying Hurricane Ike claims. Insurers operating near the coasts have begun…
Detroit News
Stimulate Economy Through Deregulation
The economy is contracting at a rate of more than 6 percent this year to date. This is hurting the country and especially Michigan, whose…
Detroit News
Legislature’s Continued Reliance on Catastrophe Fund a Disaster for Florida Finances
When it announced recently that it would rely on the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund alone for its reinsurance, Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corp. placed…
Detroit News
Obama Stimulus Shrinks Economy, Kills Jobs
Most of the $800 billion stimulus package has yet to be spent, but it’s already harming the economy, both by triggering trade wars that…
Detroit News
Regulators Fail Chemistry Test
Just how dangerous are modern chemicals? According to experts, not as much as regulators or the media would have you think. That’s the finding…
Detroit News
Someone Has to Pay the Piper
As the cliché goes, the piper must be paid. And when the government decides that some folks are paying the piper too much,…
Detroit News
Insurance Plan Won’t Work
James Lee Witt and James Loy are, quite simply, wrong to suggest that a ”national catastrophe backstop” would help reduce homeowners’ insurance rates for…
International Affairs Forum
Climate Smart Aid Is Anything But
International organizations like the World Bank and the United Nations are supposed to help the world’s poor escape poverty, but fully convinced they are doing…
Investors' Business Daily
America’s Hidden Trillion-Dollar Tax
We need a breather to take it all in: TARP, a $787 billion stimulus bill and a projected $1.845 trillion budget deficit. But lost among…
Investors' Business Daily
Beach Plan Fix Requires Higher Insurance Rates on Coast
Full document available in PDF.
Investors' Business Daily
I’m All Right, Barack: The Perils of a Nationalized Car Maker
President Obama’s takeover of General Motors is a disaster in the making. Not only is it bad for GM, it also sets terrible legal…
Investors' Business Daily
Supreme Court To Hear Sarbanes-Oxley Challenge
A major government abuse of power is about to get much-needed scrutiny, thanks to the Supreme Court, which this week decided to hear…
Investors' Business Daily
Florida flirting with fiscal hurricane disaster
When it announced last week that it would rely on the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund alone for its reinsurance, Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corporation…
Investors' Business Daily
The way the political winds are blowing, coastal insurance rates could go up
As it girds for hurricane season, Texas has plenty to worry about. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA)—which provides coverage for high risk coastal…
Fox News Opinion
California’s Sorry State Points to America’s Future
As goes California, so goes the nation. Nowhere is this adage truer than in environmental policy, thanks to Democrats’ eagerness to impose the Golden State’s…
Fox News Opinion
Business Will Miss Justice Souter
Your editorial about Justice Souter’s retirement is much too optimistic (“Succeeding Souter,” May 2). It predicts that Supreme Court Justice David Souter…
Detroit News
Green Jobs Lead to More Pink Slips
Repower America, a green energy advocacy organization founded by Former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, is running television advertisements in northern Michigan to…
Detroit News
Rather than vilify bottled water, scale back recycling programs
Gov. David A. Paterson has jumped on the anti-bottled water bandwagon by issuing an executive order halting state-agency purchases of bottled water…
Detroit News
Banks Aren’t Bridges
The logic of the recent bank stress tests seems unassailable — bridges may fail, so may banks. But bridges are physical constructs. Centuries of…
Detroit News
Just What Is Waxman-Markey For?
As the House of Representatives girds to debate the Waxman-Markey energy and global warming bill, no one seems to be asking the most…
Detroit News
Hating the Thought of Hate Crimes
The Washington Times rightly criticized the federal hate-crimes bill, but it left out the the strongest reason for opposing it (“Thought crimes,”…
Detroit News
Double Jeopardy Is Always Unfair
David Bass aptly criticizes the unfairness of the federal hate crimes bill and the false reasoning of the leftwing religious activists who back it.