Obama on Capital Gains: No Winners
“If you make more than $1 million a year, you should not pay less than 30 percent in taxes,” asserted President Obama in his State of the Union speech....
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Cage Fighting on the Campaign Trail
You wonder why anyone would want to run for President of the United States. ...
Obama’s Off-base Blame Game
President Obama started off his speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, on December 6 with a positive nod to free-market economics. ...
Economic Libertad? Cuba’s Baby Steps Toward Liberty
Millions of economic transactions take place every hour in the United States, too many for any central committee in Washington to handle or even Understand, even if they all...
“Soak the Rich” Policies and the Great Depression
Pushing his agenda for higher taxes on “the rich,” President Obama kicked off his December 6 speech in Kansas by saying his Kansas grandparents “shared the optimism of a...
Crony Communism
It's not like the old days in China when the top guys in the Communist Party at least pretended to be pro-equality. ...
The Not So Super Supercommittee
Even if Congress' supercommittee had agreed on how to cut the national debt by $1.2 trillion over the next decade, it would still have been a total failure, an...
Penn State’s Sex-abuse Scandal: The banality of detachment
Why did it take 17 years? Here’s the timeline in the Jerry Sandusky case: ...
The Collectivized Train Wreck in Europe
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder,” said British historian Arnold Toynbee. We’re seeing exactly that today in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Ireland. In all those cases, the ineptness...
It’s Anti-Semitism, Again?
“I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government — they need to be...
The Public’s Distrust of Government
The good news is that Americans' distrust of government is at its highest level ever. It's good news because it shows the public recognizes how poorly we're being governed....
“Occupy Pittsburgh” Encounters
Rapper Kanye West and hip-hop kingpin Russell Simmons added some celebrity glitz to the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York when they stopped by. ...
Public Works: Visible Projects, Hidden Destruction
Today’s crop of central planners and big spending politicians could learn a thing or two about economics from Henry Hazlitt’s classic bestseller, Economics in One Lesson, published in 1946....
First Cigarettes, Now Bacon and Eggs
You knew it was coming. First they came for the cigarettes, then Hank Williams Jr. got knocked off Monday Night Football for not being politically correct, and now they’re...
Wrong Medicine for a Sick Economy
“Middle-class families shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires,” repeatedly proclaims President Obama, arguing for his proposed $1.5 trillion tax increase over the next 10 years. “That’s pretty...
Obama’s Anti-jobs Jobs Bill
“Pass this bill now,” President Obama is repeatedly demanding, regarding his new American Jobs Act. ...
Economic Incompetence at the Top
On August 31, with job creation grinding to a complete halt, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was asked this question: “Why do you think there have been so many...
Zero Job Growth & Common-sense Economics
Politicians seem to have little trouble understanding how the basic Law of Demand works when it comes to things they want to discourage, like cigarettes — or when it...
It’s the Spending, Stupid, the Stupid Spending!
President Obama’s constant refrain about the government’s unprecedented levels of red ink points to “millionaires and billionaires” as the problem, not the massive amounts of waste, fraud, and inefficiency...
What Obama Needs to Say: I Was Wrong
Only 26 percent of the public approves of President Obama's handling of the economy in the latest Gallup poll, conducted Aug. 11-14, while a whopping 71 percent said they...