“Utterly irrelevant,” writes the WSJ’s Kimberly Strassel of Hillary Clinton’s attempt to “fuzzy up” her story that information wasn’t classified at the time she sent it. According to the NYT, the Justice Department “hasn’t decided if it will open an investigation.” Why are State Department officials doing backbends to justify why Mrs. Clinton emailed classified […]
Davis Bacon Act—Keeping Jim Crow Alive
From Cato Briefing Papers, 18 January 1993: Davis-Bacon was designed explicitly to keep black construction workers from working on Depression-era public works projects. The act continues today to restrict the opportunities of black workers on federal and federally subsidized projects by favoring disproportionately white, unionized and skilled workers over disproportionately black, non-unionized and unskilled workers. […]
Sugar Daddies in Congress
“The absurdity of the federal sugar program is legendary. Every year the government grants sugar processors nonrecourse loans linked to the amount of sugar the government says they can produce at a set price per pound,” writes the WSJ. Read more here about one of Washington’s worst business welfare schemes. Americans pay nearly twice as […]
The VA Scandal and Obama’s “Swift Reckoning”
On Wednesday, President threatened to veto the Veterans Affairs Accountability Act, calling the bill “counterproductive” because it would cause “a disparity in the treatment of one group of career civil servants.” Not surprising, government employee unions are opposed to the act. It’s been over a year since the VA tragic mess was headline news. James […]
Campaign Like a Libertarian/Govern Like a Democrat?
There is no “infrastructure crisis” in this country, other than the one created in Washington, writes Stephen Moore in the Washington Post. No one doubts for a moment that our broken system of transportation funding is in need of reform, but the big canard here with the highway trust fund is that the government is […]
More Sizzle in Your Steak
Originally posted May 15, 2015. With a little planning and some creativity, you can take your steaks from good to great, advises Alan Ashkinaze, executive chef of Gallaghers Steakhouse (NYC). Of course you can always buy good aged meat, but you can also do a mock version at home. Just uncover your steak and put […]
Vicious, Brutal, Abhorrent Existence
“This is a group that throws people off buildings, that burns them alive… This isn’t a pioneering movement, it is a vicious, brutal and fundamentally abhorrent existence,” said Prime Minister David Cameron. In a speech given in Birmingham, England, Britain’s PM emphasized the need to “de-glamorise” extremist ideology and conspiracy theories used by groups such […]
Preventing America from Becoming the Next Greece?
Could America become the next Greece (or Detroit or Puerto Rico)? The answer is “an unequivocal no,” writes economist Stephen Moore. The private sector of the U.S. economy is structurally very healthy. Business and family balance sheets have shown stunning improvement following the debt binge from 2000 to 2008. The story is simple: Over the […]
Insurance Companies Artificially Lower Premiums and Charge Taxpayers for Their Losses
Even with the Supreme Court’s decision upholding federal subsidies in King v. Burwell—and despite President Obama’s claim to the contrary—Obamacare will remain unaffordable for many Americans. Read here from Stephen T. Parente, a professor of health financial at the Carlson School of Management, why the cost of health-care insurance will become increasingly intolerable “both financially […]
Taking the Black Vote for Granted
Rick Perry gave a speech in the beginning of July at the National Press Club in Washington. In his speech, Mr. Perry recounted an abominable incident—the torture and lynching of a 17-year old black man in Waco, Texas, in 1916. The WSJ’s Daniel Henninger writes that by doing so, Mr. Perry threw down the gauntlet […]
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