IRS Targeting and 2014 – They’re still at it!
Democrats are working hard to make sure conservative groups are silenced in the 2014 midterms. President Obama and Democrats have been at great pains to insist they knew nothing about…
Obama’s NSA Proposals Fall Far Short of Real Change
The White House’s tepid plan aims to calm the public, not curtail the government’s surveillance programs. by James Oliphant The White House promised Friday that it was ending the NSA’s…
Spending bill bans IRS targeting, preserves incandescent light bulbs
by Stephen Dinan Congressional negotiators reached a deal late Monday on a massive spending bill to fund the government for the rest of 2014, agreeing to undo last year’s cut…
A Victory for an Unfettered Internet
After another court loss, the FCC should abandon its ‘net neutrality’ regulation goal. by Robert McDowell A federal appeals court in Washington slapped the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday for…
How Big Government Policies Kill Jobs and Opportunity
To reduce unemployment, we need a free market in labor. by Richard A. Epstein The latest government labor report indicates that job growth has slowed once again. It is now at a…
Affordable Care Act Hurts Twice As Many As It Helps
by Betsy McCaughey In 2014, 25 million to 30 million Americans who have employer-provided health insurance are likely to lose it, thanks to ObamaCare’s requirement that all plans cover what…
Feckless Attacks on Income Inequality
by Michael Barone As Barack Obama scrambles to eviscerate key sections of his own signature health care law, he and other Democrats are trying to shift voters’ focus to another issue…
Weak Economy: For every new job, five have given up
The recent job report was disappointing on several different levels. The new jobs number was appalling. The number of new jobs, 74,000 doesn’t even keep up with population growth. In…
Raise minimum wage?
“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another — it’s one damn thing over and over.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay by George F. Will Liberals’ love…
National Data Shows No Benefit to Red Light Cameras
Peer-reviewed statistical analysis finds insurance industry data actually proves no benefit to red light camera use. In science, the results of a properly conducted study or experiment can always be…
Women comprise biggest opposition to ObamaCare
Remember Julia? That cute little cartoon the Obama folks created to illustrate how the president’s policies would provide “health and economic security” for women at all of life’s stages? The…
If you like your light bulb, you can’t keep your light bulb
by Marita Noon Americans will be feeling a new and unexpected pain of government overregulation before they vote in November. Yet, more than two-thirds of the public is currently unaware…
Congress was Right to Ring in the New Year by Ending Wind Subsidies
January 5, 2014 George Landrith, President of Frontiers of Freedom, commended Congress for allowing the decades-old practice of wasting billions of taxpayer dollars subsidizing the wind industry to expire with…
Feds list 141 new regulations in only three days
It’s a new year and you know what that means — new regulations. The Obama administration has wasted no time in writing them. The website Regulations.gov lists 141 regulations that…
ObamaCare Confusion Reigns: Patients Leave Hospitals without Treatment
Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can’t determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect. Patients in a…