Morning Bell: Wind Energy Subsidies Are As Useful As VHS Tape Subsidies
The wind production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, which has the industry crying out for continued subsidies. Heritage’s… Read More
The wind production tax credit is set to expire at the end of this year, which has the industry crying out for continued subsidies. Heritage’s… Read More
What happens to our society if we lose all electricity? A new TV show premiering next month, Revolution, will explore that question. It will be… Read More
Taxpayers will lose even more on the auto bailout than previously thought, as the Treasury has just revised its estimate upward to $25 billion. This… Read More
Quick quiz: Who said this about Medicare? “With an aging population and rising health care costs, we are spending too fast to sustain the program…. Read More
Papa John’s Pizza founder John Schnatter spurred new outrage over Obamacare when he said recently that the law will hike pizza prices. But his business… Read More
Unemployment is at 8.3 percent. The economy is sputtering at 1.5 percent growth. Food prices are rising due to drought conditions across the country. And… Read More
The Obama Administration is denying that it has gutted the work requirements from the 1996 welfare reform law, despite all evidence that it has. Heritage… Read More
The Obama Administration came out swinging against its critics on welfare reform yesterday, with Press Secretary Jay Carney saying the charge that the Administration gutted… Read More
Four years of President Obama’s foreign policy are having their full effect. After squandering time in sham “negotiations” with Iran and Palestine and abandoning Iraq… Read More
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“The Bank of Washington continues to help us!” bragged Solyndra CEO Chris Gronet in emails released last week. An investigation by the House Energy and… Read More
Congress has headed off for its long vacation-and-campaign season, fleeing Washington as the unemployment rate rises. According to the Labor Department’s July jobs report, the… Read More
Efforts to protect the environment in America have ignored the most powerful force for improving the environment: free people. The results of these misguided policies… Read More
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Yesterday, on the eve of its religious-liberty-crushing mandate taking effect, President Obama’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) made an outrageous claim: The Obama administration… Read More
On the late Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday today, his words are truer than ever: “There is no respect in which inhabitants of a low-income neighborhood… Read More
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Two days from now, employers across America will become vulnerable to crushing government penalties for exercising their religious freedom. This isn’t exactly what lawmakers advertised… Read More
People seemingly voting after they’ve been dead for years. Drug kingpins buying votes from poor people to sway elections. Non-citizens being bussed to the polls… Read More
Yesterday, the Senate narrowly voted (51-48) to raise taxes on 1.2 million small businesses, which will likely kill more than 700,000 jobs at a time… Read More
Two new reports out yesterday continue to knock down President Obama’s promises about Obamacare: his “If you like your plan, you can keep it,” and… Read More
Solar-cell manufacturer Solyndra became a household name when it collapsed, taking $627 million in American taxpayer dollars with it. It’s the poster company for the… Read More
The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance, but it also struck down part of the law. That part—forcing states to expand… Read More
Has your bank raised its fees or stopped offering free checking accounts in the last couple of years? If so, you can thank the regulatory… Read More
Both candidates in the presidential race have been accusing the other of “outsourcing.” It’s one of those words that is loaded with negative meaning, implying… Read More
The Obama Administration made yet another end run around Congress last week—this time, to gut the successful welfare reform law of 1996. If this is… Read More
A new poll shows the majority of Americans—including those on the low end of the income spectrum—are against hiking taxes for those making more than… Read More
A United Nations threat to U.S. sovereignty has been halted. The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), a pet project of Senator John Kerry (D-MA),… Read More
That sound you hear is silence—as millions of small business owners and entrepreneurs were left speechless this weekend from President Obama’s latest insult. The slap… Read More
The imperial Presidency has overturned Congress and the law again. Not content to stop at rewriting immigration policy, education policy and energy policy, yesterday, President… Read More
President Obama has been stumbling on the economy, and this week he added more proof of his weakness on foreign policy. He told a popular… Read More
The House is scheduled to vote today on full repeal of Obamacare. Although many reports are circulating that Congress has already voted on this numerous… Read More
“The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, because that would just suck up—take more demand… Read More
