Journalism Beneath Contempt
by Andrew Klavan The Democratic Party is a machine for inciting grievances in order to consolidate its power. The Republican Party is also just such a machine, but poorly run.…
The IRS scandal started in Washington
We’re starting to understand why Lois Lerner took the Fifth about her role in the IRS targeting of conservative groups. The testimony of at least three more employees in the…
Court rules against unconstitutional recess appointments … again
A third federal appeals court ruled that President Obama’s recess appointments of three National Labor Relations Board members was unconstitutional. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals joined federal appeals…
Obama’s Coal Regs Will Harm Working Families
by Jason Stverak President Obama’s call for the EPA to impose new regulations on coal-fired power plants was a giveaway to the environmental lobby at the expense of the American…
The EPA wants government to control how cold your beer can be
Regulation: No longer the stuff of science fiction, a little-noticed change in energy-efficiency requirements for appliances could lead to government controlling the power used in your home and how you set…
Obamacare was simply bad legislating
by Timothy P. Carney President Obama’s signature legislative achievement was simply a bad bit of legislating. The administration’s decision to postpone the employer health insurance mandate is just the latest…
The Top 5 Lies About Fracking
Explosions, poisons, pollution, cancer, and global warming all considered. by Ronald Bailey Gasland Part II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox’s earlier anti-fracking docudrama Gasland, will run on HBO. It…
Climate Change Isn’t World’s Biggest Problem
by Alex B. Berezow It’s particularly trendy among politicians and members of the media to be worried about climate change. When President Obama recently spoke before a crowd in Berlin,…
Jobs numbers still aren’t working
by Terry Keenan The most recent jobs report had a “robust” 195,000 new positions created last month as the unemployment rate held steady at 7.6 percent. Hallelujah! Unfortunately, the problem…
Sphynx in Labor
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi In Egypt, nobody wanted military intervention, yet nobody believed in a smooth transition to democracy. For this reason, Egyptians viewed the military as the guarantor…
Recovery woes: America’s second-largest employer is a temp agency
by Ashe Schow Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. Friday’s disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high,…
Former Producer Rips MSNBC as Obama’s ‘Official Network’
by John Nolte Left-wing media critic Jeff Cohen has been all over cable news as a contributor, but for a time he worked as a senior producer for MSNBC. Monday,…
Unilateral Disarmament: A Bad Idea with Nukes and Industrial Policy
by George Landrith In 1963, John F. Kennedy delivered his famous “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. Twenty-four years later, at the same spot,…
Embracing Flat Earth Science… and Economics
by Clark S. Judge This past week, President Obama joined the Flat Earth Society. That’s not how he put it, of course. Just the opposite. He said, “We don’t have…
Why does the Left want to suppress free speech?
by Michael Barone Many people on the political left don’t much like the First Amendment. That seems odd to someone of my generation. In past times people who suppressed what…