Obama Using the IRS to Quash Dissent
by George Landrith When the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Oversight grills the Internal Revenue Service’s John Koskinen next week about his scandal-plagued agency, it would do well to…
Obama: If you like your privacy, you can keep it
by George Landrith President Barack Obama had too little to say about the needed reforms at the National Security Agency in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. His previous comments…
Stoking class warfare to win midterm elections
Income Inequality talk is not about helping the poor, its about trying to cling to power. Sadly, the American dream is in trouble precisely because of policies designed to win…
A fracking good story missed by the media
by Christopher Harper The United States has become the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia, according to the U.S. Department of…
We Need G.M.O. Wheat
by Jayson Lusk and Henry I. Miller • The New York Times THREE crops — corn, soybeans and wheat — account for a vast majority of…
Why Do The Uninsured Hate ObamaCare?
A new survey shows that ObamaCare is less popular with the uninsured than with the public. How is this even possible? The January Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows…
Keystone Cop Cop-out on Pipeline
by Charles Krauthammer Fixated as we Americans are on Canada’s three most attention-getting exports — polar vortexes, Alberta clippers, and the antics of Toronto’s addled mayor — we’ve somewhat overlooked…
The real jobs debate
The article below discusses the push in Illinois to raise the minimum wage to $10 and hour. While we cannot endorse each point made in the article, it does a…
Dwindling Economic Freedom
by Terry Miller World economic freedom has reached record levels, according to the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, released Tuesday by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. But…
Keystone XL approval is one executive action the nation would embrace
Members of President Barack Obama’s team made it clear this past weekend that Obama will use part of his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to send a message…
The Inequality Bogeyman
by Thomas Sowell During a recent lunch in a restaurant, someone complimented my wife on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was wearing perfume,…
The political exhibitionism of the State of the Union
by George F. Will As undignified as it is unedifying and unnecessary, the vulgar State of the Union circus is again at our throats. The document that the Constitutional Convention…
The Administration’s Poor Record on Poverty
by Frank Donatelli President Obama’s State of the Union address will focus on “income inequality.” One can understand why he wants to change the subject from the very real problems…
Is Barack Obama an imperial president?
President Obama’s use of executive action to get around congressional gridlock is unparalleled in modern times, some scholars say. But to liberal activists, he’s not going far enough. by Linda…
Fact Free Policy Debates: Part IV
by Thomas Sowell One of the things that attracted me to the political left, as a young man, was a belief that leftists were for “the people.” Fortunately, I was…