Nuclear Freeze: Wrong Again!
by Peter Huessy In their preview of their April 27, 2014 show CBS 60 Minutes worried that our ICBMs could not be recalled if launched and since they were deployed…
Dirty Politics Clog Keystone XL Pipeline
Billionaire baits Democrats to block the project that America desperately needs. by Phil Kerpen The decision to yet again delay the final permit for the popular Keystone XL pipeline was…
The Tale of Two Recoveries
by Michael Hausam How often have you heard a Democrat prattle on and on about how well Barack Obama has done with the economy, given the mess he inherited? Usually,…
Foreign Policy Failures Prove Critics Right
The President once promised to tackle “cynicism” about what could be achieved through diplomacy. But he’s nowhere near close to doing that. by Michael Crowley In a rough month of…
Vlad the Prevaricator
Talks in Geneva on the unrest in eastern Ukraine have concluded with an agreement by the foreign ministers of the European Union, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. for all sides…
18 Spectacularly Wrong Apocalyptic Predictions Made Around the Time of the First Earth Day in 1970
by Mark J. Perry On the 30th anniversary of the first Earth Day in 1970, Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article in the May 2000 edition of Reason Magazine titled…
The Zealots Win Again
by Charles Krauthammer The debate over campaign contributions is never-ending for a simple reason: Both sides of the argument have merit. On the one hand, of course money is speech.…
What Obama Isn’t Telling You About the ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Strategy
by Fred Lucas The White House held a “Solar Summit” Thursday, continuing to promote subsidies for solar panels just days after a new nonpartisan government report showed restrictions of drilling…
More Obfuscation on Benghazi
Testimony by the former acting head of the CIA makes clear that Congress’s current approach isn’t sufficient. by Michael B. Mukasey Last week’s encounter between former acting CIA Director Michael…
Labor’s Lackeys Stack the Deck But Workers Keep Leaving Unions
Private sector union membership peaked at nearly 36 percent of the workforce in the mid-1950s. It’s been downhill ever since. An unprecedented trend is reshaping the contemporary American workplace: U.S.…
President Obama’s Bogus Voting Rights Claims
by Hans von Spakovsky and Peter McGinley Last Friday, in a speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference, President Obama proudly announced that the Justice Department had taken on more…
The Kansas Killings: Will Every Crime Be A Hate Crime Someday?
Hate-crime laws may have the paradoxical effect of privileging some victims of violence over others. by Michael McGough Frazier Glenn Cross (a.k.a. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.), the 73-year-old extremist accused…
The Emerging Law of the Gun
by Peter Huessy Russian President Vladimir Putin annexes the Crimea in gross violation of international law. What should America do, if anything? There are many different ideas. Some suggest doing…
Progressives are wrong about the essence of the Constitution
by George F. Will In a 2006 interview, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the Constitution is “basically about” one word — “democracy” — that appears in neither that document…
Those ‘rogue’ agents
Remember when Lois Lerner, in answering a planted question at an American Bar Association conference, admitted the IRS had targeted conservative groups but tried to pass it off as the…