Government Employees Work 150 Hours Less Per Year
And we’re not just talking teachers. That’s one of the conclusions of from a study conducted by Andrew Biggs and Jason Richwine. If public-sector employees just worked as many hours as their private...
View ArticleNew York: Big Taxes, Big Business Obstacles and Big Problems Happen Here
When Frank Sinatra sang in New York, New York, “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere,” I wonder if he was talking about the difficulty of doing business in New York today. New York recently...
View ArticleOur Government-Created Financial Crisis
Suppose you saw a building on fire. Would you seek counsel from the arsonist who set it ablaze for advice on how to put it out? You say, “Williams, you’d have to be a lunatic to do that!” But that’s...
View ArticleIreland’s Anti-Israel Bias
Ireland was one of the European Union states that voted Yes on November 29, 2012 in support of Palestinian non-member observer state status at the UN. Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore stated...
View ArticleObama’s Regulatory Cliff Draws Near
Many Americans believe the biggest problem the nation currently faces is the so-called fiscal cliff. Unfortunately, the fiscal cliff is nothing compared to the avalanche of new regulations that will be...
View ArticleThe Freedom Cliff
With all attention focused on the so-called fiscal cliff, President Obama is moving America ever closer towards tumbling over the freedom cliff. As a writer for Salon Magazine put it, “liberals let...
View ArticleDeath and Taxes
On November 13, 1789, Benjamin Franklin sat down to write a letter to a French scholar and physicist by the name of Jean-Baptiste Leroy, famous for his experiments with electricity. The French...
View ArticleBad Inventions
I am bored with politics, refuse to pay attention to the news and am watching only True Crime TV shows and Turner Classic Movies these days. With the Democrats controlling the Senate and presidency,...
View ArticleGun Ownership and People Power
At a Brady Center event, its Legal Action Project Director asked retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens whether having a right to a cell phone might be a more universal form of self-defense...
View ArticleAre We Already in a New Recession?
On Sunday, President Barack Obama contended that the nation is “poised to improve economic growth in 2013, but what’s been holding us back is the dysfunction here in Washington.” Obama is certainly...
View Article‘Green’ Stimulus Money Funds Chinese Tech Advancement
While much of the American public’s attention was focused on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s congressional testimony regarding the security breaches in Benghazi, a potential breach with far more...
View ArticleObama’s Incredible Shrinking Economy
I believe that the funniest reaction to Wednesday’s government report on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which showed that the economy contracted by an annualized 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of...
View ArticleAmerica’s Last Chance
Let’s expose presidential prevarication. Earlier this year, President Barack Obama warned that Social Security checks will be delayed if Congress fails to increase the government’s borrowing authority...
View ArticleProphets and Losses
Now that the federal government is playing an ever larger role in the economy, a look at Washington’s track record seems to be long overdue. The recent release of the Federal Reserve Board’s...
View ArticleObama’s Most Dishonest State of the Union Address
In 1986, at the closing session of the Communist Party shindig in the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, Castro had declared, “Let no one think that what I have here is a lengthy speech; it is the party’s...
View ArticleUS Government Funds Radical Israeli NGOs
Earlier this month NGO Monitor released its report on foreign government funding of radical political Israeli NGOs which work to undermine Israel’s international standing and subvert Israeli society....
View ArticleShepherds and Sheep
John Stuart Mill’s classic essay “On Liberty” gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people’s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given...
View ArticleCan Obama Be Stopped?
There’s nothing like losing a war to destroy morale. The Republican defeats in 2008 and 2012 have convinced much of its leadership that the future lies with the left. They are not debating whether to...
View ArticlePalestinians Break Ceasefire
Last week’s “under-the-radar” rocket attack on Ashkelon, Israel was the inevitable outcome of cumulative, distressing circumstances, foremost of which was the recent joint call by Palestinian Authority...
View ArticleMallory Factor Exposes Big Labor’s War on America
Editor’s note: Below is the video of author Mallory Factor’s speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2013 West Coast Retreat. The event was held February 22nd-24th at the Terranea Resort in Palos...
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