William Tucker: Why We Don’t Need a National Energy Plan
“Frederick Hayek dealt with all this in his 1940s classic, The Road to Serfdom, and it’s amazing how you have to keep going over the same old arguments because the…
“Frederick Hayek dealt with all this in his 1940s classic, The Road to Serfdom, and it’s amazing how you have to keep going over the same old arguments because the…
“‘This is painful for a liberal to admit,’ admits Nicholas D. Kristof, a Times columnist… ‘but conservatives have a point when they suggest that America’s safety net can sometimes entangle…
“1) Continued greening of the military, 2) Energy job creation, 3) Shale gas, 4) Carbon, 5) Our power grid’s vulnerabilities.” by Peter Kelly-Detwiler I recently asked a number of friends…
“Do British workers have no deep feelings for freedom, for order, for the education of their children, for the right to work without disruption by political militants? Of course they…
“After President Bush in late May 2003 signed the largest tax cut since President Reagan . . . government receipts from individual income taxes rose from $793.7 billion to a…
by George Landrith With a long history of federal overspending and the recent explosion of more federal debt, it is obvious that the federal budget must be cut back to…
“After the phony cliff, we face the terrifying one.” by Conrad Black Last week, Fareed Zakaria and Charles Krauthammer appeared in Toronto (where I live much of the time), and…
by George Landrith With the budget and fiscal crisis facing the United States and difficult economic times surely ahead for the foreseeable future, President Barack Obama has vociferously argued that…
“So it is sheer hogwash that ‘tax cuts for the rich’ caused the government to lose tax revenues. The government gained tax revenues, not lost them. . . . That…
“All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‘the rich’ to pay ‘their fair share’ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about…
by George Landrith President Barack Obama repeatedly chided Mitt Romney’s budget plan during the presidential campaign on at least two grounds: (1) it lacked detail, and (2) the math didn’t…
by Todd Beamon Food stamps will be the only way 42.2 million Americans will pay for their Thanksgiving Day dinner this year – more than ever. This Thanksgiving, 42.2 million…
by Kerri Toloczko Capitalism is good for everyone. Entrepreneurs access financial resources to create businesses. Businesses hire workers, and workers provide services to consumers. Consumer payments create profit, leading to…
“Will we, before it is too late, use the vitality and the magic of the marketplace to save this way of life, or will we one day face our children,…
by George Landrith After a long, tough campaign, Barack Obama won reelection by a slim 51% to 49%. Now Obama is claiming a broad mandate to increasing taxes and demands…