Here Al Jazeera America has the fast-breaking update. It did not end with Crimea. As Russia consolidates its power in the recently absorbed part of Ukraine, it appears that President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions go beyond retaking an old territory. Armed men have commandeered cities in eastern Ukraine — centers of pro-Russian sentiment — and are grabbing public buildings and […]
Archives for April 2014
Obama and Kerry With Egg on Their Face
Here Pat Buchanan looks at American hypocrisy and history as related to today’s Ukraine standoff. Today, two courses of action are being hotly pressed upon the Obama White House by the War Party. Both appear likely to lead to disaster. The first is to arm the Ukrainians. This would likely provoke a war with Russia […]
Main Street Getting What it Deserves
Banks are picking up the pace in lending to those who need it: small businesses and entrepreneurs. The Fed’s mis-guided policies have fattened the coffers of Wall Street and the well connected for far too long. With the end in sight for QE bank lending is beginning to go where it belongs, into the hands […]
The Federal Register: 26,417 Pages of Rules
Fewer jobs, lower incomes courtesy of Obamacare–Dodd-Frank style. Regulator Without Peer Anyone wondering why the U.S. economy can’t seem to grow at its usual pace should examine one product category where production is booming: federal regulation. Washington set a new record in 2013 by issuing final rules consuming 26,417 pages in the Federal Register. While […]
2014 Cato Institute Milton Friedman Award Winner
On May 21, Cato Institute will honor Leszek Balcerowicz with the 2014 Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty. Leszek Balcerowicz, former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Poland, will receive the 2014 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, a $250,000 biennial award presented to an individual for achievement in promoting freedom and individual liberty. Balcerowicz has been […]
Here is How Obamacare is Going to Implode
Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon exposes the fraud of Obamacare signups. Barack Obama wants you to know he enrolled 7.5 million Americans through Obamacare’s health insurance Exchanges. What he doesn’t want you to know is how. Federal courts may soon rule that President Obama induced the majority of those enrollees to enroll by offering them taxpayer […]
Congress Must Repeal REAL ID
Here Cato Institute’s Jim Harper lets Americans know about the Zombie national ID. Like some sort of zombie from a 1950s B-movie, the REAL ID Act shambles forward, awaiting the day when some national emergency can bring it back to life. In the District of Columbia, the city government has announced that they will begin […]
Off to Wyoming for More Skiing and Less of This
One of my clients splits his time between Florida and Wyoming. He skis and collects cars. He never complains about state taxes. The successful residents of NY, NJ, and CT may want to follow his lead. Gallup shows us why: Residents of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut are the most likely of any state’s […]
VIDEO: Krauthammer’s Take: Reform Entitlement, or Else We’ll ‘Go Over a Cliff’
A War on Meaningless Statistics
Read here how Obama is firing up racial and gender resentments to get out the vote. His policy is deepening the national divide by carving the electorate into blocs and inflaming racial and other tensions. You can tell it’s an election year because so many noncrises are suddenly urgent priorities. Real median household income is […]
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