Obamanomics: Puffery vs. Reality
With President Obama’s claim that “the economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office,” the economic outcomes after six-plus years of higher taxes, more regulations, higher...
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Race and Violence: Slogans vs. Reality
Cops, increasingly demonized and under attack by the black community , understandably are pulling back on policing in America's urban war zones. The outcome? Crime rates increase. Instead of...
A “Playful” Shot at Cops
“When the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, cold-blooded assassinations of police officers happen, this rhetoric has gotten out of control," cautioned Sheriff Ron Hickman after the assassination...
Destroying Jobs Via Wage Diktats.
Minimum-wage advocates say they want to help low-income workers. But how are low-income workers helped when they lose their jobs because of the minimum wage? ...
Germans, Greeks, and Flying Crockery
“Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt,” advised Benjamin Franklin. That’s not how the Greeks seem to see things, where Franklin’s advice on borrowing and...
“Doesn’t Work and Can’t Be Fired”
Government ineptitude extends to most every major federal bureaucracy. ...
Senseless Politics and Harebrained Economics
Just when you think it can’t get any more anti-business, anti-jobs, anti-growth, anti-capitalist, and just plain economically nonsensical among presidential candidates than Hillary Clinton’s ’s “Don’t let anyone tell...
Lie-based Victimology Produces Violence
The lethal fallout has manifested itself in the rising number of poor people, disproportionately black, that are now being murdered in America’s inner cities. ...
Federal Dysfunction, Unabated
Now, on top of Secret Service agents frolicking with hookers in the hotels they’re supposed to be securing for President Obama’s impending visits, the news is even worse about...
Justice for All Minorities?
What's missing in the recent sequence of looting, arson, and destruction that occurred in the majority-black city of Baltimore — and previously in Ferguson, Los Angeles and elsewhere —...
Baltimore’s Tough Streets
Washington Post columnist, writes that she went to Baltimore to get a firsthand look at how the poorest of the poor live. In short order, she got robbed and knocked...
The Last Line of Defense?
Two TSA screeners were fired in April after developing and implementing a scheme to grope attractive men at Denver International Airport. And recent and repeated mishaps with the Secret...
What Works vs. Obama/Hillary Fiction
The best economic policies help make poor people rich, not rich people poor. ...
“Inequality” and the Absence of Reason
Here’s a thought from Winston Churchill on equality, ethics, capitalism and socialism: “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is...
Would You Like Some Race Talk With That?
Given the negative backlash, it’s clear that the short-lived Race Together campaign launched by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz in order to “stimulate conversation, empathy and compassion” among Americans of...