Political Commentary & Opinion

House Republicans released a blueprint for tax reform on Friday. If Congress follows the architecture the blueprint lays out, it will create a strongly pro-growth tax system that will create jobs, raise wages, and increase opportunity for American families at all income levels. On the individual side, the blueprint calls for lower tax rates for all…

Senate Agriculture Committee leaders have released a new federal mandatory labeling bill for genetically engineered food. These Senators are trading a state mandatory labeling law for a federal mandatory labeling law. If passed, the federal government will make it national policy to mislead consumers and legitimize bad science. (Rather than just the small state of…

The momentous victory for the Brexit campaign signals a new era of freedom for the British people. Britain outside the EU will be a stronger ally for the United States. After more than four decades of being shackled to the European Union (previously the European Economic Community), Great Britain has declared its independence. The vote…

A series of proposals released last week by House Republicans aim to get the branches of the federal government to respect limits the Constitution places upon them. “A Better Way: Our Vision for a Confident America” contains several regulatory reforms as well as proposals to curb executive power grabs by enhancing certain checks and balances….

House Republicans released their taskforce report on health care on Wednesday. The 37-page document offers a vision for health care that is in sharp contrast to Obamacare. Unlike Obamacare, which hinges on turning more control over to the government, this vision recognizes and embraces the important role of the consumer in demanding from the market higher…

In August 2012, a gunman entered the office building in downtown Washington, D.C., that houses the Family Research Council (FRC), a Christian organization dedicated to traditional moral teaching. By his own account, available on video, he was alerted by secular progressive “watchdog” groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, that painted the FRC as a…

Last December, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rushed an arbitrary and ineffectual recreational drone-owners’ registry into effect, mere days before Christmas and just in time to criminalize the flying of toys by thousands of children and hobbyists. The agency has potentially roped those toys under its definition of “aircraft” for purposes of all aircraft regulation…

In the past three months, the Obama administration has accelerated the pace of the so-called Periodic Review Board hearings for Guantanamo detainees. Periodic Review Boards are administrative hearings designed to weigh the merits of keeping a detainee at Gitmo or recommending transfer from the island to third countries. The Periodic Review Boards, which are a more structured…

According to a recent article in The Fashion Law, the Federal Trade Commission is attempting to regulate fashion bloggers by arguing that their online sponsorships run afoul of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits deceptive conduct. The FTC is apparently concerned that popular fashion bloggers who are paid to promote product…

If the news reports are correct, the latest “gun control” proposal being put forward by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is a “measure that would block people on the Transportation Security Administration’s no–fly list from buying firearms,” according to ABC News. Let’s be clear—we don’t want terrorists buying guns in this country. There is one major…