TSA Collective Bargaining Could Endanger Americans
Over Thanksgiving weekend of 2006, airport screeners in Toronto began meticulously searching every carry-on bag by hand. The delays caused security lines to pile up…. Read More
The President Shouldn’t Override the Congress on Cybersecurity
The attempt to pass a comprehensive cybersecurity bill before the summer recess failed today in the Senate, 52–46. The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was still… Read More
Employers Caught Between a ROC and a Hard Place
Chef Daniel Boulud got one of his first tastes of the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) when they inflated a gigantic cockroach outside of his upscale… Read More
DeMarco Signals a Better Housing Policy by Putting Taxpayers First
Ed DeMarco, the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), got it right by putting taxpayers’ interests ahead of the Obama Administration’s wishes…. Read More
Inappropriate for Appropriations Bills (and Other Bills, Too)
This session, Congress has consistently increased criminal penalties through legislation. In what type of bills are they doing it? In appropriations bills, of course. Where… Read More
Morning Bell: Can Conservatives Be Environmentalists?
Efforts to protect the environment in America have ignored the most powerful force for improving the environment: free people. The results of these misguided policies… Read More
Toll-Free Entitlements: States Make Food-Stamp Benefits Easily Available
A new Government Accountability Office report reveals that in more than 40 states a growing number of households are able to collect food-stamp benefits simply… Read More
SocietyNews
Online Chat on the Anti-Religious Freedom Mandate
Starting on August 1, employers were required to provide abortion-inducing drugs and contraceptives in their health care plans, or face a fine of $100 per… Read More
Time to Safeguard Ourselves from Rising Protectionism
Last week, Pascal Lamy, chief of the World Trade Organization (WTO), gave a stark warning that rising protectionism is a serious threat to global economic… Read More
Wind PTC Already Phasing Out—for Certain
The production tax credit (PTC) for wind energy is set to expire at the end of this year, but its supporters are arguing for an… Read More
Rescue Taxpayers from Flawed Farm Policy
House leaders on Tuesday proposed a drought relief package for ranches, orchards, and nurseries as a substitute for the massive five-year farm bill that has… Read More
Health CareNews
Calls for Renewed Commitment to Religious Liberty after Obamacare Mandate Implementation
Today marks the beginning of implementation of the anti-conscience mandate, and with it come calls for continued vigilance to demand greater protection of religious liberty…. Read More
Powering America Vignette: What is Radiation?
“What is radiation?” That simple, three-word question largely embodies the concerns that many Americans have about nuclear power. The answer can be just as complicated… Read More
Protectionism Shuts Down “Nathan’s” Hot Dogs
In recent years, this country has been plagued with an epidemic of over-achieving teenage entrepreneurs who refuse to waste their youth sitting in their parents’… Read More
Postal Service in Default: The Beginning of the End?
Today the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will default on $5.5 billion in payments to the Treasury for future retiree health benefits. That is no small… Read More
Obamacare Robs Medicare of $716 Billion to Fund Itself
Last week, a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report updated the amount of money Obamacare robs out of Medicare from $500 billion to a whopping… Read More
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U.N. Disabilities Treaty Leaves Door Open for Abortion Advocates
A heated abortion debate in the Senate gives the U.S. just one more reason to oppose the U.N. treaty it is considering on disabilities. Last… Read More
Another Temporary Budget Deal: Don’t Blame a “Broken” Process
The stopgap spending agreement reached by House and Senate leaders may be the only way Congress will escape a post-election “lame duck” showdown over funding… Read More
Sacramento Airport to Bid TSA Adieu
Late last week, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials announced that they had preliminarily approved Sacramento International Airport to begin moving forward with privatizing their screening… Read More
Health CareNews
Morning Bell: Obamacare’s Anti-Religious Freedom Mandate Starts TODAY
Yesterday, on the eve of its religious-liberty-crushing mandate taking effect, President Obama’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) made an outrageous claim: The Obama administration… Read More
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Liberty-Crushing HHS Mandate Takes Effect August 1
Tomorrow, the government’s liberty-crushing mandate that has elicited widespread outcry and led a federal judge to grant a preliminary injunction against the rule for a… Read More
Milton Friedman: Father of the All-Volunteer Military
Milton Friedman, who would be 100 years old today, is primarily remembered as a Nobel Prize winner in economics. But for all his achievements in… Read More
LawNews
International Religious Freedom Report: Time to Back Up Tough Talk with Tough Actions
Yesterday, the State Department issued its 2011 International Religious Freedom Report, which represents the culmination of an annual review the State Department must undertake pursuant… Read More
Senate Republicans Have Spoken: No Votes on Judges Until After the Election
On Monday night, Senate Democrats failed to reach 60 votes to cut off debate on the nomination of Robert E. Bacharach to the U.S. Court… Read More
Jordan and Southerland: Conservatives Need to Get Back in the Game on Welfare Reform
“It’s time for conservatives to get back in the game,” on welfare reform, write Representatives Jim Jordan (R–OH) and Steve Southerland (R–FL) in The Washington… Read More
Taxmageddon and Obamacare: What Would Milton Friedman Say?
“I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible,” economist Milton Friedman once said…. Read More
WATCH LIVE: Stephen K. Bannon, Kate Obenshain on ‘The Conservatives’
To counter the decades-long pursuit of “fairness” fostered by the nation’s left-leaning educators, producers of a new film believe that the educational process should be… Read More
How Much Will Taxmageddon Cost Your Family?
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Morning Bell: Friedman’s Legacy of Fighting for School Choice for All
On the late Milton Friedman’s 100th birthday today, his words are truer than ever: “There is no respect in which inhabitants of a low-income neighborhood… Read More
Obamacare by the Numbers
Looking for some straight facts on Obamacare and its impact? Here are some of the most important numbers you need to know about President Obama’s… Read More
