The Unserious Commander-in-Chief
Senator Bob Corker: “What is it you’re seeking?” General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “I can’t answer that, what we’re seeking.” — Senate hearing on the…
IRS scandal: Stop the stonewalling – America needs the truth
America can handle the truth. Even if that truth could include a coverup at the powerful IRS. The IRS mission statement pledges to “enforce the law with integrity and fairness…
What is the Goal in Syria? What is the plan?
Why are we even talking about taking military action in Syria? What is that military action supposed to accomplish? And what is the probability that it will in fact accomplish…
Syria vote is an avoidable political trap
Do congressional Republicans face an impossible choice between being politically used or undermining U.S. prestige in the Mideast? The corner that President Obama has trapped them in is just an…
Obamanomics in decline
Falling income and employment is becoming the new normal Fewer Americans will be returning to the work force after the traditional Labor Day holiday. Labor force participation is at the…
Seeking an accomplice or political cover for Syria action
Because Syria’s convulsion has become as serious as Barack Obama has been careless in speaking about it, he is suddenly and uncharacteristically insisting that Congress participate in governance. Regarding institutional…
We should accelerate energy production boom
Government should speed oil infrastructure improvements, a key piece in America’s manufacturing resurgence. A bright spot in the U.S.’s sluggish economic recovery has been historic growth in North American energy…
Jobless rate is worse than you think
by Heidi Shierholz On Labor Day, we celebrate the American worker. And more than four years since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, the unemployment rate is 7.4%, a big…
Inept foreign policy
One of the things we were promised back in the 2008 election campaign was that under a Democratic administration America would be better liked and more influential in the world.…
The truth about falling wages
The left and “progressives” love to blame wage stagnation on greedy businesses wanting to gobble a larger share of the pie. But it’s actually a product of businesses’ uncertainty about…
Bread and Circuses
by Caroline Glick Over the past week, President Barack Obama and his senior advisers have told us that the US is poised to go to war against Syria. In the…
The Healthy Fisheries through Better Science Act
The Hon. Rob Wittman 2454 Rayburn HOB United States House of Representatives Washington. D.C. 20515 Dear Representative Wittman: On behalf of the members and supporters of Frontiers of Freedom, let me…
Prof. Walter Williams: “The civil rights struggle is won”
On WMAL’s “Mornings on the Mall” radio program (105.9 FM) in Washington, D.C., on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, George Mason University professor Walter E.…
Red Lines: A Costly Blunder
“We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.” — Abraham Lincoln Last August, President Obama drew his line in the Syrian…
Attack On Syria Is About Saving Face, Not U.S. Interests
The president isn’t bothering to ask Congress for permission to attack the Assad regime. What was unconstitutional to candidate Obama is politically handy now, and that stinks. In David Mamet’s…