Obamanomics in decline
Falling income and employment is becoming the new normal Fewer Americans will be returning to the work force after the traditional Labor Day holiday. Labor force participation is at the…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
A Poignant Anniversary
Fifty years after Dr. King’s famous speech, too many are still judged by the color of their skin. by Thomas Sowell The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, and…
Obamacare’s Hierarchy of Privilege
No one who favors the law wants to be bound by it. by Mark Steyn On his radio show the other day, Hugh Hewitt caught me by surprise and asked…
I have a dream …
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. “Life’s most persistent and urgent…
NSA employees spy on lovers and former spouses
by Harriet Alexander Staff working at America’s National Security Agency – the eavesdropping unit that was revealed to have spied on millions of people – have used the technology to spy…
How the White House is flouting ObamaCare
Democrats strong-armed Obamacare into law three years ago. Now they’re busy flouting it. The mandate that employers provide insurance next year or pay a penalty, as the law requires? Delayed…
The Obama Administration Has Been Using the IRS to Target Political Foes for Years
by Peter Roff The alleged abuse by the Obama Administration of the United States Internal Revenue Service goes back much farther than the current inquiry into whether conservative political groups…
Abusing the Patriot Act
by Jim Sensenbrenner On Aug. 9, the Obama administration released a previously secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that it used to justify the bulk collection of every American’s…