“It is not a breakthrough on the frontiers of knowledge that minimum-wage laws reduce employment opportunities for the young and the unskilled of any age,” writes Thomas Sowell in NRO. Check out the unemployment rates in such countries as Spain, Greece and South Africa where unemployment rates hover around 25 percent. Why? Each of these […]
Burning the Constitution?
“Burning the Constitution of the United States … cannot be a part of our national energy policy,” said Harvard constitutional law professor Lawrence H. Tribe before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. According to the Washington Times, Mr. Tribe told the Committee on Tuesday that “the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to limit greenhouse-gas emissions far […]
Bullying Climate Skeptics
With the majority of Americans not convinced that “climate change” (remember when it was called “global warming?”) requires the comprehensive political controls on American energy and industry that the Obama administration would like to see in place, three members of Congress—Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ed Markey (D-MA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)—recently sent 107 letters to think […]
Hillary’s House of Cards
During her press conference at the U.N., Hillary Clinton claimed that the private server she was using was secure because “it was on property guarded by the Secret Service.” But as the WSJ’s James Taranto writes about Mrs. Clinton, “Maybe she’s been watching ‘House of Cards,’ whose second season has a hacking subplot that involves […]
Why Butter Is Better
Originally posted May 5, 2014. In the late 1940s, Procter & Gamble, the maker of Crisco oil, helped transform the American Heart Association from a small, underfunded organization into the powerhouse it is today. Americans, on the advice of the AHA, began in 1961 to eat less saturated fat and switch to vegetable oils for […]
ISIS—Wading Ashore in Miami?
How does Washington react to a crisis? By spending and growing big government in the form of the Department of Homeland Security. And then to keep the party going, it scares the wits out of the public with “tales of impending disaster, as if ISIS were about to wade ashore in Miami.” Writing in NRO, […]
Fiery Outrage from Our Men in Washington
As Andrew McCarthy, a policy fellow at National Review Institute, writes at NRO, there is plenty of fiery outrage by the Bengahazi panel under a Republican-controlled House over the massacre in Benghazi, but not a lot of forthcoming answers. After 10 months, there have been neither subpoenas nor hearings on why the Obama administration and […]
A Chance for Real Health Care Reform
Kevin Pace is a jazz musician and adjunct professor of music in Northern Virginia. Mr. Pace is also a victim of Obamacare. In anticipation of the ACA mandate that employers cover all workers who put in at least 30 hours, Mr. Pace’s employer cut his hours in order to avoid massive penalties. Mr. Pace is […]
The Robin Hood Strategy
In the name of “fairness,” writes Stephen Moore, an economist at the Heritage Foundation, President Obama would like to raise the capital gains and dividend taxes to 28%, which is almost twice what they were when he was elected president. He would also like an effective inheritance tax rate of over 50%. According to the […]
IRS Illegally Taxing Millions
“Does anybody really want to live in a world where the IRS has the power to impose taxes all on its own?” asks the Cato Institute’s Michael F. Cannon. That is exactly what King v. Burwell is about. The plaintiffs in this case are not challenging Obamacare; instead, they want to uphold the act and […]
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