In the clip below The American Prospect’s Mark Schmitt claims that “earmarks have nothing to do with anything” and “you could eliminate all the earmarks… Read More
The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle looks over Barack Obama’s economic plans and doesn’t like what she sees. Focusing on taxes she writes: As if those things… Read More
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Cato Institute’s Daniel Ikenson examines how nations can still increase free trade despite yesterday’s collapse of the Doha Round… Read More
President Bill Clinton’s Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers and Heritage don’t always agree. But few experts seem to be satisfied that the new regulator… Read More
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who once threatened to resign if Congress stripped funding for the infamous Bridge to Nowhere, was indicted yesterday on seven felony… Read More
Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) stopped by the weekly Conservative Bloggers Briefing at Heritage today, to talk about her recent trip with Minority Leader John Boehner… Read More
Not oil! In a Washington Post puff piece helping Speaker Nancy Pelosi sell her new book, “Know Your Power,” Pelosi is quoted: “The men had… Read More
Responding to Barack Obama’s promise to unilaterally renegotiate NAFTA, President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers chairman Michael Boskin writes in the Wall Street… Read More
The steep rise in gas prices has had a dramatic impact on American driving habits. According to Federal Highway Administration data, this May marked the… Read More
The Chinese, Russians, and Indians are planning to build a combined 159 new nuclear power plants. They are going to need uranium. Fortunately for us,… Read More
During Salim Hamdan’s U.S. military commission trial last week, defense lawyers pressed FBI agent’s on whether or not Hamdan (who has been accused of being… Read More
Editorializing on school choice, the Wall Street Journal writes today: EdisonLearning, a private company that took over 20 of Philadelphia’s 45 lowest performing district schools… Read More
The above sentence is an actual headline from the Idaho Mountain Express. Translated from lawyer to English it reads: Department of Energy to do National… Read More
In the latest City Journal, Guy Sorman examines how the acceptance of fundamental economic principles, like free trade, has helped the entire world: Free trade… Read More
This week Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will try to close out her “summer energy agenda” with a bill claiming to end “excessive” speculation in oil… Read More
Today both the The Washington Post and The New York Times have front-page stories on Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R-Okla.) use of legislative “holds” to bring… Read More
Fearing that the latest round of World Trade Organization negotiations are on the verge of collapse, the New York Times looks at what failure could… Read More
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) first act when taking over control of the House was to pass a bill that the Washington Post called “the broadest… Read More
This week, the U.S. Geological Survey released a report estimating that the Arctic Circle contains 1,670 trillion cubic feet of natural gas — nearly two-thirds… Read More
Earlier this month, Anheuser-Busch was bought by the Belgian brewer InBev for $50.3 billion. As symbolic as the purchase was for American beer drinkers, the… Read More
Already Medicare expenditures account for 3.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). Medicare Part A – the part of Medicare that pays hospital bills –… Read More
While liberals in Congress are turning away from free trade with Colombia, South Korea, Peru, and Panama, China is busy inking deals with the rest… Read More
The economy is by far the No. 1 issue on most Americans’ minds. Gas prices are a close second. The two issues are intimately related…. Read More
United States secretary of defense Robert Gates and Colombia minister of defense Juan Manuel Santos write in The New York Times today: The dramatic rescue… Read More
On June 22, Tony Bologna and his four sons were driving home to San Francisco from a family picnic in Fairfield. When Bologna inadvertently blocked… Read More
Faced with mounting public consensus for more domestic energy production, liberals in Congress are desperate to pass anything that they can claim will lower energy… Read More
There is tons of terrible stuff in the housing package currently working through Congress. But the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scoring of the bill should… Read More
On Sunday the New York Times profiled Diane McLeod, a 47-year-old single mother working two jobs, who by her own admission acknowledges she spent too… Read More
Luis Rubio looks at NAFTA from Mexico’s perspective in the Latin Business Chronicle: NAFTA was the result of a new economic strategy. Above all, however,… Read More
This past week, Speaker Nancy Peolsi (D-CA) announced she wants to push another $50 billion in deficit spending through Congress for economic stimulus. This is… Read More
