When the Left Turned Against Free Speech
The long, ugly journey from the Free Speech Movement to professors assaulting protesters. by Matt Welch On March 4, in a designated “free-speech zone” at the University of California, Santa…
EPA Quietly Signs Off on State Carbon Taxes
The agency didn’t mention it in the new climate rules, but the plan would allow states to place a levy on greenhouse gases. by Ben Geman EPA’s big new draft…
With greater risks, weaker capability is a bad strategy
by George Landrith Russian President Vladimir Putin is willing to invade neighboring nations to rebuild the former Soviet-era empire. Iran is on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons. North Korea…
ASP’s Nuclear Fairy Tales and Misconceptions
by Peter Huessy Despite the fact that our Triad of forces has been a nuclear umbrella that has kept the nuclear powers from going to war against each other for…
Why impose a 1908 “First Sale” Rule on a Modern and Evolving Internet-based Marketplace?
“Copyright law has historically protected the right of the creator to exclusively distribute their work. This is important because it gives creators the ability to profit from their creation which…
Speaking Loudly and Carrying a Small Stick
by Amir Taheri Until last week, some had hoped that, having failed to develop a credible foreign policy, President Obama may at least be capable of engaging in serious debate…
Cap and Trade: Hammering the Poor … Again
by Diana Furchtgott-Roth President Obama has called inequality “the defining challenge of our time.” But on June 2 he will announce new “cap-and-trade” environmental regulations that will make the poor…
Ad Hoc Foreign Policy
Obama’s West Point speech and his policy of retreat are characterized by smallness. by Charles Krauthammer It is fitting that the day before President Obama gives his grand West Point address…
Economy Looking Sick … Again
by Megan McArdle Last month, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that gross domestic product had grown at a lead-footed rate of 0.1 percent in the first quarter, economic…
Stop Obama From Surrendering the Internet
The House is trying to block an Obama plan to cede control of the Internet. by Peter Roff By a vote of 229 to 178, the U.S. House of Representatives…
Obama’s Internet Folly
by Gov. Bobby Jindal It was an act generations from now will regret: The country that invented the Internet unilaterally decided to give it away — jeopardizing the freedoms of…
The House agrees that the Internet should remain American
Frontiers of Freedom Praises the House of Representatives for wisely agreeing that the Internet should remain under the authority of the United States May 30, 2014, Washington, D.C. – George Landrith,…
What Obama’s Many Messes Really Mean
Dems blame . . . big government? by S.E. Cupp Another week, another scandal. From Fast and Furious at the ATF to the Pigford fraud at the Department of Agriculture,…
Speaking Freely at the University of Minnesota
by Carl M. Cannon I still think of myself as a reporter—my role for three decades—although as Washington bureau chief for RealClearPolitics, the bulk of my job these days is…
Save Meriam Ibrahim
Obama and the rest of the world need to come to the aid of a Sudanese woman sentenced to death. by Peter Roff It only took about a month, but…