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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…
The Unaffordable Careless Act
Small businesses won’t grow, and more employees will work fewer hours. That’s just for starters. by Karl Rove Harvard (and later Columbia) sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote in 1936 about…
Reporters Should Get Their “PolitiFacts” Straight
“PolitiFacts” is just another example of blatant media dishonesty. It is beyond bias. by Mike Gonzalez PolitiFact is a website of the Tampa Bay Times, manned by journalists and editors.…
The Obamacare Propaganda Push
by Peter Roff Rather than devote all possible resources to the implementation of the new health care law, which even some prominent Democrats agree is going off the tracks, the…
Embracing the Imperial Presidency
by John Fund British prime minister David Cameron has recalled Parliament from summer vacation for a special session on Thursday, where there will be “a clear government motion and vote…
A War With Syria to Save Face
by Robert Robb Apparently the United States is going to go to war, at least sort of, with Syria. That’s not because Syria has attacked the United States, because it…
Historic Incompetence
We have a president who delights in delivering partisan speeches to adoring audiences but doesn’t seem interested in whether his administration gets results. by Michael Barone Evidence of the astonishing…
What will attack on Syria accomplish?
It seems all but certain that the U.S. will launch cruise missiles into Syria as punishment for its use of chemical weapons against civilians. But what is this really going…