Busybody Politics Harms Us All
by Thomas Sowell It is hard to read a newspaper, or watch a television newscast, without encountering someone who has come up with a new “solution” to society’s “problems.” Sometimes…
Congress’s ObamaCare Exemption: President intervenes to give Congress a break
To adapt H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the cynicism and self-dealing of the American political class. Witness their ad-libbed decision, at the 11th hour and on the basis…
The Obama Favor Factory
This is precisely why everyone hates Washington by Peter Roff At virtually the same time the House of Representatives was voting to defund the Internal Revenue Service’s piece of Obamacare,…
Data of Prosperity Past
The latest GDP revisions underscore how subpar the current recovery is. The good news is that the Commerce Department’s second-quarter GDP report shows that the U.S. is richer and the…
Obama’s Keystone Job Claims is Phony
President Barack Obama falsely claims that the jobs created by the pipeline from Canada would be but a “blip relative to the need,” ignoring his own State Department and the…
Nothing phony about the IRS scandal
One thing is clear about the current state of play on the IRS scandal — President Obama and his top appointees have now moved to a new phase of their…
Middle class left behind by Obamanomics
by Timothy P. Carney “Even though our businesses are creating new jobs and have broken record profits,” President Obama said in his economics address last week, “nearly all the income…
What has Obamanomics brought us?
by Bruce McQuain As much as the president would like to blame our economic ills on the other party, or George Bush or, well, just about anyone, the fact is…
The Case for Stopping ObamaCare Has Never Been Stronger
Health Overhaul: Republicans are fighting over a government shutdown when they should be telling a receptive public that if ObamaCare takes effect, the result will be massive taxpayer fraud and…
The Internet Is Not the Wild West
by Peter Roff In late July, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet held a hearing to examine the role played by copyright law…
NLRB is stacked against workers and job growth
After a row over filibusters, the “nuclear option” and other procedural puzzles, the U.S. Senate recently found political compromise and approved seven of President Barack Obama’s political appointees. But behind…
Detroit: The insanity cannot go on forever
by Charles Krauthammer If there’s an iron rule in economics, it is Stein’s Law (named after Herb, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers): “If something cannot go on…
Big Government: Strangling Life
by John Stossel There are now 175,000 pages’ worth of federal laws. Local governments add more. I’m not so cynical that I think politicians pass laws just to control us.…
How DOJ abuses antitrust law and harms consumers
by Mark Hendrickson This month, Federal District Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple Inc. was guilty of collusion and of fixing the price of e-books. The gist of the case is…
Buyer’s Remorse from ObamaCare Backers?
by Seth Mandel One of the key selling points for ObamaCare was President Obama’s repeated promise that if you like your current health insurance plan, you can keep it. This…