The Tax Foundation’s great research shows businesses the best places in the country for setting up shop. A state with a failing grade should be a warning to local politicians that they’re doing something wrong when it comes to stimulating the job creators and entrepreneurs. First take a look at The Tax Foundation’s 2015 State […]
Defenseless in America Part II
There is a better way to make America safer, more prosperous and freer. More here from the Cato Institute policy analysis, Budgetary Savings from Military Restraint by Ben Friedman and Chris Preble (displayed below). The United States does not have a defense budget. The adjective is wrong. Our military forces’ size now has little to do […]
The Real Mount McKinley
From The Wall Street Journal’s Notable & Quotable: From “McKinley’s Greatest Monument,” an editorial about President William McKinley, in the New York Sun, Aug. 30: Our own interest in the matter lies with McKinley. We have no particular objection to, per se, Denali. That’s the name for the summit used by Alaskan Natives and, in […]
Dan Mitchell’s $11 Billion Man
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell writes that Alejandro Andrade, the former treasury minister of socialist Venezuela, was discovered to have $11.2 billion in his name. And it’s not just Mr. Andrade: The daughter of Hugo Chavez, the former president who once declared “being rich is bad,” may be the wealthiest woman in Venezuela, according to […]
Solyndra Redux
Remember Solyndra—the model company that was going to lead the United States into a new era of sunshine and power and eliminate our country’s dependence on fossil fuels? Well within two years—and $535 million of taxpayer money later and 1,100 employees out of a job—Solyndra collapsed. And President Obama is at it again: “using his […]
National Defense Panel (NDP) War Hawks
Niskanen Center’s Matt Fay unmasks the National Defense Panel (NDP). Matt explains that while the NDP “has a veneer of bipartisanship, it is stacked with hawks from both parties—including its supporting staff.” From the Army War College’s Christopher Bolan: “[A]ll of these members reflect the elite intellectual consensus that American interests can only be served […]
Unsurpassed Elegance
As is commonly known, all wines are enhanced by good stemware. If you are looking for a gift for a wine lover in your life or for yourself, look no further than Zalto stemware. Each glass is created from a single piece of mouth-blown glass from the lip of the bowl to the base of […]
Seattle Gun Violence Tax
The Seattle City Council has overstepped its authority in passing a “gun violence tax” on firearms and ammunition sales. The NRA is suing the city. “The ordinance serves only as a piece of propaganda, because the ordinance’s mandates are legally unenforceable,” according to the lawsuit. “The state of Washington has the exclusive right to regulate […]
Defenseless in America, Part I
Today’s presidential candidates, in large measure, are trotting out the old failed and forlorn message of the original Defense Planning Guidance (DPG) drafted by Paul Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby, and Zalmay Khalilzad back in late 1992. This document, as described in The Strategist, “spelled out how the United States should behave if it wanted to dominate […]
Chalk One Up for American History
The College Board has just rewritten the 2015 teaching guidelines for American history for high-school students. And as Daniel Henninger writes in the WSJ, they “are about as balanced as one could hope for. The framework itself, on the College Board website inside the AP tab, is worth a look.” What happened? In a word—federalism. […]