Bailing Out Detroit: Wrong Vehicle for Change
Nothing gathers a crowd in Washington like the sight of money being handed out. Thus, in the wake of last weekend’s federal takeover of Freddie… Read More
Nothing gathers a crowd in Washington like the sight of money being handed out. Thus, in the wake of last weekend’s federal takeover of Freddie… Read More
Since the Federal Communications Commission’s ‘net neutrality’ order last month there have been an avalanche of lawsuits including four last week alone.Responding to the suits,… Read More
MINNEAPOLIS – Economic advisers from both Barack Obama and John McCain’s campaigns squared off in a panel on tax policy this afternoon, and the consensus… Read More
DENVER – Google CEO Eric Schmidt told an audience here at The Big Tent that the most common question he gets when he travels abroad… Read More
Columbia University Business School dean Glenn Hubbard writes in the Wall Street Journal today: The spending shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare are large. According… Read More
In an article in the New York Sun, I praised
“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” –John F. Kennedy “We are increasingly… Read More
At the tail end of an extremely long diatribe that is completely not worth reading, Andrew Sullivan asserts that America’s “military consumes more and more… Read More
Bloggers and web site operators may support, oppose, link to, and work cooperatively with federal political candidates. This freedom was reaffirmed when the newly re-constituted… Read More
This morning’s Drudge Report features the stories everyone is talking about today, with reports on U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps winning another couple of gold medals,… Read More
Early this month, in a precedent setting decision, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3 -2 to uphold a complaint against Comcast for managing its customers… Read More
Former South Dakota senator and 1972 Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern writes in today’s Wall Street Journal: As a longtime friend of labor unions, I… Read More
Manhattan Institute senior fellow Steven Malanga looks at a new Development Counsellors International survey of corporate executives and notes: More than four in ten of… Read More
Kudos to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Last month the paper asked each member of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation to explain how he or she would solve… Read More
The FCC last Friday may have jumped with both feet into the business of regulating the Internet, but someone forgot to tell the folks that… Read More
…because if big labor gets its way, they will not be protected by the secret ballot at work. Today the Wall Street Journal has a… Read More
Today is the 20th anniversary of Rush Limbaugh’s national radio show. Rush can be heard on over 600 radio stations and gets more than 14… Read More
In a body known for intemperate remarks and fabricated figures, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) put in a worthy nominee for top honors in 2008 recently… 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
First Bear Stearns, then Fannie and Freddie … and now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? Last week Massachusetts received another short-term extension of its Medicaid waiver—which… Read More
In 1979, Robert Schuettinger and Eamonn Butler wrote a book called “Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls,” detailing 4,000 years of disastrous attempts by… Read More
Russell Beland is a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His piece in the Washington Post over the weekend, “5 Myths About the Bust That… Read More
From the comments on the so called Webb GI Bill: I am an active duty military officer with multiple Iraq deployments and continuing an active… Read More
The Left is winning the big health care policy victories with the help of rank and file GOP members and their feckless Republican Leadership in… Read More
The House is set to vote today on H.R. 6275, a bill that trades temporary relief for permanent pain. According to a Republican Study Committee… Read More
It’s that time of year again. Congress is facing its annual AMT predicament, and once again Americans must suffer through the same worn out debate… Read More
What happens when liberals are able to take over an entire city and implement all of their dream policies, many of which they claim will… Read More
The 1996 Telecommunications Act is 137 pages long. The first six titles of the act, and over 134 pages, deal exclusively with regulation of the… Read More
Federal employees receive up to 12 weeks a year of unpaid parental leave for the birth of a new child, adoption or foster child care,… Read More
