Fishing and Freedom
Catch Shares Coalition is an initiative of Frontiers of Freedom with the goal of preserving America’s fishing resources. Over-fishing is depleting America’s available supply of fishing stocks – leading to…
U.S. moving backward on missile capability
by Kerri Toloczko One little unfriendly missile, conventional or nuclear, is all it would take to rain death, panic and economic devastation upon the United States. Likely emboldened by…
Sequester Show May Not Have Jumped The Shark, But Its Format Has Changed
“The sequester debate illustrates a central contradiction of progressive economic thought. On the one hand, progressives believe the U.S. economy is so fragile that even the mere threat of cuts…
The truth about the minimum wage
by Gordon Jones In early 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the constitutionality of ObamaCare (né the Affordable Care Act of 2009). One would think that…
Own Our Failure to Uphold the Constitution
“Jefferson aptly wrote that ‘certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights … yet experience hath shewn, that…
Why the ‘threat’ on Bob Woodward matters
“Yes, all administrations are sensitive to criticism, and all push back when such criticism is deemed unfair or inaccurate. But no president since Richard Nixon has demonstrated such overt contempt…
The Obamaian Universe
“In the Obamaian universe, the units of the private economy . . . are satellites orbiting the great fixed planet of public spending.” by Daniel Henninger It may be that…
The True National Debt
“Five estimates of the national debt . . . (1) Treasury debt held by the public: $11.3 trillion, 73% of GDP . . . (2) Gross Federal debt: $16 trillion…
The buck still stops with the president
by Nolan Finley Playing the crisis card won’t work forever for President Barack Obama. At some point, the people will expect their leader to lead. And the president hasn’t…
The manufactured crisis of sequester
by George F. Will Even during this desultory economic recovery, one industry thrives — the manufacture of synthetic hysteria. It is, however, inaccurate to accuse the Hysteric in Chief of…
The Violence Against Women Act?
by Gordon S. Jones With the Senate having acted and the House set to take up the bill as early as next week, it is time for someone to answer…
More on Electoral College “Reform”
by Gordon S. Jones Now that a Virginia state senator has dropped plans to re-work his state’s method of allocating votes in the Electoral College, let’s consider some other proposals…
The Incomparable George Washington
“I find his love of fox hunting, dancing, cards, and the theater all very appealing. His terrible temper—which he learned to control—is also clearly very human. Nor should his entrepreneurial…
No good reason to say ‘no’ to Keystone: Phony assertions halt process
“All six states along the proposed 2,000-mile route now support the pipeline.” by Paul Driessen Nearly 170 billion barrels of Canadian oil sands fuel could be recovered economically with today’s…