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The Equal Pay Ruse: Deceptive Stats
Amid much fanfare, President Obama on Tuesday signs two executive orders designed to begin to narrow the wage gap between men and women. Never mind that the criteria generally used…
The ’77 Cents on the Dollar’ Myth About Women’s Pay
Once education, marital status and occupations are considered, the ‘gender wage gap’ all but disappears. by Mark J. Perry and Andrew G. Biggs April 8 is “Equal Pay Day,” an annual event…
US Sees Sharpest Health Insurance Premium Increases In Years
by Sarah Hurtubise Americans have recently been hit with some of the largest premium increases in years, according to a Morgan Stanley survey of insurance brokers. The investment bank’s April…
The Left’s “Billionaire Outsider” Hypocrisy
by Mark Pfeifle Who drafts the Democratic Party’s campaign strategy? Whoever it is, they should be fired. Their 2014 plan violates a basic rule of electoral public relations: Don’t build your…
The Left’s Hostility to Political Speech
by Thomas Sowell The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens…
Second Climate Thoughts
The latest U.N. report tones down the alarmism but ramps up the bad economics. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its latest mammoth report last week, and the…
The Liberal Gulag
Liberal fascism on display By Kevin D. Williamson The word “liberal” has taken a beating over the last few days: A Mozilla executive was hounded out of his position at…
Fast-Tracking the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
How far will the Obama Administration push Crony Capitalism? by Kerri Toloczko For several years, a large, modern and expensive building stood abandoned on Kato Road in Fremont, California; the…
Obama looks to close wage gap while paying female staffers less than men
by Caroline May President Barack Obama is planning to sign two new executive actions aimed at narrowing the wage gap between men and women Tuesday, even as the Obama White…
National Security Fairy Tales: US defense spending vs. the rest of the world
by Peter Huessy “The US spends more money on defense than all the countries in the rest of the world together.” Sound familiar? Years ago, Ben Cohen of Ben and…
Who is the real Party of the Rich?
Right after the Supreme Court’s decision to lift limits on campaign contributions, Democrats and their left-wing supporters assaulted the decision as a boon to Republicans, “the party of the rich.”…
The Agony of Iran’s Militant Mullahcracy
by Miklos K. Radvanyi On February 1, 1979, the Shi’a cleric, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, flew from his exile in a Paris suburb to Tehran to fill the political vacuum created…
Who Buys Votes? Incumbents, Not the Rich
Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has devoted most of his attention lately to slimming the Koch brothers and alleging that they and other rich people want to buy elections. Just like…
Free Speech Wins Big In Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court just lessened the influence of those “shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names” President Obama warns against. We’ll see how the Democrats’ rich donors like the sunlight. In a…
A Republican Plan for Healthcare Reform
President Obama has repeated claimed that the Republicans have only voted to repeal ObamaCare, but have no ideas or proposals of their own. This was, and is, entirely false –…