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Why the New Newt Gingrich Is Winning
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2011 Comment (23)Liberals reacted with predictable outrage when former House Speaker and GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich challenged the Occupy Wall Street crowd to go home, take a bath, and then go out and look for a job.
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Out of Control NLRB Strikes Again
Tweet Share on Facebook November 29, 2011 Comment (5)The National Labor Relations Board is out of control, and it's time to slam the brakes on.
The board is already under attack over the way it has tried to keep Boeing from expanding its operations in South Carolina—a right to work state—instead of at its home base in Washington where is has been beset by periodic union trouble over the last several decades. The argument that it is putting union interests ahead of job creation and federal law has done little to sway it.
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Abraham Lincoln and the First Thanksgiving
Tweet Share on Facebook November 24, 2011 Comment (5)The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the earliest colonists in North America, yet it was not until Abraham Lincoln in 1863 that it first became a national event, its first observance coming just one week after the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
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Solyndra Is Symptomatic of a Larger Obama Energy Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook November 22, 2011 Comment (5)United States Secretary of Energy Steve Chu did not exactly distinguish himself while testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight Subcommittee about Solyndra, the so-called "green energy" company that received more than half a billion dollars in loan guarantees from the federal government.
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'Super Committee' Flawed from the Start
Tweet Share on Facebook November 18, 2011 Comment (3)Is the much-anticipated congressional "super committee" looking at ways to reduce the federal deficit going to produce anything of value? If you believe the latest Washington rumors it’s not bloody likely. Though it has conducted most of its work away from the prying eyes of the public, published reports indicate it has been ground zero for Washington’s lobbying community which, no doubt, has been working overtime to make sure that its pet programs, loopholes, and subsidies are spared the axe.
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Democrats Should Condemn Occupy Wall Street
Tweet Share on Facebook November 17, 2011 Comment (49)It is still a mystery why anyone takes the Occupy Wall Street crowd seriously. They are certainly impressed with themselves—as though what they are doing has some sort of deeper cultural meaning. They revel in the fact that their activities have sparked some kind of discussion of so-called income equality but, in point of fact, more people are paying attention to the crime, the sloth, and the disruptions they have caused rather than any kind of central message.
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Congress—Not the Supreme Court—Should Repeal Obamacare
Tweet Share on Facebook November 15, 2011 Comment (6)To no one's great surprise the United States Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's massive overhaul of the nation's healthcare system.
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Another Study Shows Stimulus Spending Doesn't Work
Tweet Share on Facebook November 14, 2011 Comment (8)No matter what the question, President Barack Obama is sticking to the position that all the economy needs to blast it out of the doldrums is another round of stimulus spending.
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2012 Should Be About Ideas, Not GOP Star Power
Tweet Share on Facebook November 9, 2011 Comment (12)By asking Americans to consider whether or not they were "better off than they were four years ago," Ronald Reagan deftly turned the 1980 election into a referendum on the Carter years.
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Charles G. Koch: 'Addicted' to the Cause of Economic Freedom
Tweet Share on Facebook November 7, 2011 Comment (13)PHOENIX, ARIZ.—To hear him tell it, Charles G. Koch is "addicted" to the cause of economic freedom. It drives him, motivates him and is the impetus behind philanthropic activities that, over the last 50 or so years, can modestly be called considerable.
