Boehner Proposes Tax and Spending Freeze
John Boehner, Republican Minority House Leader and very possibly the next Speaker of the House, called Wednesday for a freeze on all current federal tax rates, including those adopted...
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The Daley Dynasty
George Washington was one of the greatest men in human history. This greatness had to do with his tenacity, his character, and his courage. But most of all, George...
Teach for America — Another Bad Idea
In New Jersey, a program called “Teach for America” is being tested as a tool for addressing the manifest failure of public schools in areas like Newark. This program...
Justice Dept. Discriminates Against Arizona
The federal government filed suit on August 30 against the State of Arizona because of alleged discrimination by Maricopa County Community Colleges requiring that non-citizen job applicants fill out...
DEA Seeks FDA to Regulate Cough Medicine
The Food and Drug Administration is pondering placing restrictions on the purchase of cough suppressants such as Robitussin and NyQuil because these, and a number of other similar over-the-counter...
Russian Govt Tries to Reduce Alcohol Consumption
There is no doubt that excessive consumption of alcohol was a critical health problem in the Soviet Union. Trapped in a grim purgatory empire, the serfs of socialism had...
Groups Asked EPA to Ban Lead in Hunting Ammo
The Environmental Protection Agency, which has authority to ban toxic substances under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, was petitioned by the Center for Biological Diversity to ban...
How Big Was Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally?
The “Restoring Honor” rally that Glenn Beck held in Washington this past weekend brought in huge numbers of people from all over the nation. Anyone who watched the coverage...
Wind Power Creates Problems
What happens when government tries to make things better? Usually, it makes things worse. Wind power sounded like a harmless enough idea. ...
Corn Hybrids and Big Brother
The marketplace solves so many “problems” that it is amazing how often people turn to government or resort to violence to force their opinions down other people’s throats. Giorgio...
State Attorneys General Target Business
Intrusive statism has many ways of harassing citizens. The most conspicuous, and in many ways the least dangerous, is by passing statutes. These laws, at least, are public and...
The Commissar Comes to Canada
The Jaworski family fled Poland in 1984 and came to Canada to enjoy freedom, something that the Communists denied them in their homeland. The last ten years, the Jaworskis,...
Nevada Senate Race: Washington Clout versus Hometown Values
During the last sixteen years, the leaders of majority parties in the houses of Congress have been defeated twice: Speaker Foley in Washington in the 1994 election and Senate...
Command Centers and Our Liberties
The natural yen of our government to collect information on its citizens and to create command centers to review that information has continued to grow since September 11, 2001....
Islam and the Problems of Nation Building
The culture, the religion, and the attitude toward government of people ultimately determine how a particular nation behaves. The Americans of 1789 had a culture of self-reliance (which ended...
The Gold Standard in Malaysia
Americans are rightly troubled by much in modern Islam. There is one area, however, in which America might find laudable approaches from Muslims. The government of Kelantan, a state...
Conflict of Interest in NLRB Recess Appointee
The National Right to Work Foundation has aggressively pursued recusal motions against Craig Becker, a recess appointment by President Obama to the National Labor Relations Board. Becker had previously...
Rangel and the Ways and Means to Power
Charles Rangel, a longtime liberal Democrat from a northern industrial state (New York), a congressman who chairs the immensely powerful House Ways and Means Committee, faces almost overwhelming evidence...
States Join to Protect Citizens from Federal Government
Twenty states have joined in a lawsuit in Florida asking a federal court to enjoin the implementation of Obamacare. These states are alleging irreparable harm if the federal bench...
Louisana Abortion Laws Attacked
Louisiana has passed two new statutory requirements regarding abortion. One requirement would provide that women who plan to have an abortion first have an ultrasound examination. The second would...