The Red-State Path to Prosperity
Blue states with high taxes are struggling to compete for businesses and workers. by Arthur B. Laffer and Stephen Moore You can tell a lot about prosperity in America by…
The Electoral College — The Last Round
by Gordon S. Jones My last column on the Electoral College prompted a number of thoughtful responses, so I would like to deal with those, and then make some…
Will U.S. Senate vote to Impose State Taxation of Internet Sales
by Grover Norquist Politicians have fantasies. Not Woody Allen “normal” fantasies about Swedish stewardesses. No. Politicians fantasize about being able to raise taxes on people who cannot vote against…
How Junk Science Distorts What We Read, And The Way We’re Governed
“Research papers attacking plastics are riddled with phrases like ‘may be associated’ or ‘causality not yet established’ but conclusions are drawn and promoted otherwise. Media need headlines, researchers need donor-pleasing…
Fishing and Freedom
Catch Shares Coalition is an initiative of Frontiers of Freedom with the goal of preserving America’s fishing resources. Over-fishing is depleting America’s available supply of fishing stocks – leading to…
U.S. moving backward on missile capability
by Kerri Toloczko One little unfriendly missile, conventional or nuclear, is all it would take to rain death, panic and economic devastation upon the United States. Likely emboldened by…
Sequester Show May Not Have Jumped The Shark, But Its Format Has Changed
“The sequester debate illustrates a central contradiction of progressive economic thought. On the one hand, progressives believe the U.S. economy is so fragile that even the mere threat of cuts…
The truth about the minimum wage
by Gordon Jones In early 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the constitutionality of ObamaCare (né the Affordable Care Act of 2009). One would think that…
Own Our Failure to Uphold the Constitution
“Jefferson aptly wrote that ‘certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights … yet experience hath shewn, that…
Why the ‘threat’ on Bob Woodward matters
“Yes, all administrations are sensitive to criticism, and all push back when such criticism is deemed unfair or inaccurate. But no president since Richard Nixon has demonstrated such overt contempt…
The Obamaian Universe
“In the Obamaian universe, the units of the private economy . . . are satellites orbiting the great fixed planet of public spending.” by Daniel Henninger It may be that…
The True National Debt
“Five estimates of the national debt . . . (1) Treasury debt held by the public: $11.3 trillion, 73% of GDP . . . (2) Gross Federal debt: $16 trillion…
The buck still stops with the president
by Nolan Finley Playing the crisis card won’t work forever for President Barack Obama. At some point, the people will expect their leader to lead. And the president hasn’t…
The manufactured crisis of sequester
by George F. Will Even during this desultory economic recovery, one industry thrives — the manufacture of synthetic hysteria. It is, however, inaccurate to accuse the Hysteric in Chief of…