Opinion

In Washington, there is a saying that regulators never met a rule they didn’t like. Federal agencies, commonly referred to these days as the “fourth branch of government,” have been binding the hands of the American people for decades with overreaching regulations. All the while, Congress sat idly by and let these agencies assume their…

America lost a role model on Saturday when Hal Moore passed away at the age of 94. Harold “Hal” Moore was a retired three-star Army general, but he will forever be remembered for his courageous actions as the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in November…

That time of year has once again arrived when the scent of fresh-cut roses is flooding stores nationwide. But little known to most Americans, one factor is making their Valentine’s Day purchases even sweeter. Thanks to the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, Americans don’t have to pay extra taxes on Colombian-grown flowers. When the agreement went…

This month of each year, we commemorate the great individuals and events in the history of African-Americans. On Tuesday, marking his 199th birthday, we will commemorate perhaps the greatest of them all, Frederick Douglass—a singular exemplar and apostle of the American spirit. “He was an American of the Americans,” Douglass once said of Abraham Lincoln,…

In November the American people voted to give Republicans unified control of the federal government because, in large part, we pledged to “drain the swamp”—that corrupt political culture prevailing in our nation’s capital that enables elites to manipulate the levers of government to their advantage. Changing business as usual in Washington is a tough fight….

Last year, with little fanfare, the Obama administration’s Department of Labor issued a rule that threatens the retirement accounts of workers across the country. In an alleged attempt to increase workers’ access to workplace retirement accounts, the rule exempts state and local governments from all federal rules and regulations intended to safeguard workers’ private retirement…

America is facing a looming budget crisis, but you wouldn’t know it from the way Congress keeps spending. By 2027, net interest on the national debt will cost the American people $768 billion, Social Security and health care spending will consume 59 percent of the entire budget, and Obamacare will have cost taxpayers nearly $1…