The Food Safety Modernization Act: A War on Food Freedom and Family Farms
The FDA recently extended the public comment period for certain aspects of the Food Safety Modernization Act, a law which is an unconstitutional...
About: Robert Confer
Posts by Robert Confer
ObamaCare Will Kill Your Local Chamber of Commerce
Local chambers of commerce are some of the most important organizations within the private sector, providing immeasurable services to their business members. Their...
ObamaCare’s Death Panels for Nursing Homes
ObamaCare will ultimately transform nursing homes from places where people go to be taken care of and live, to places where they go...
Anglers Beware: Environmentalists Have Set Sights on Plastic Worms
Environmentalists have set their sights on soft plastic lures, with the intention of banning their use. ...
VA Hospitals: Everything That’s Wrong With Government Healthcare
Recently, more than 570 veterans in upstate New York received some dire news that could be classified as tragic irony: After they have...
The NRA’s Inconsistent Message of Liberty
Sometimes the best friends of the liberty movement are its worst enemies. ...
No More Twinkies: Unions and the Death of Hostess
Today is a dark day for U.S. manufacturing as the storied corporation Hostess Brands Inc. announced that it was closing shop and liquidating,...
Farmers Beware Obama’s Second Term
Farmers — and those who enjoy their produce — are probably asking themselves this: Why does the Obama administration so hate farming? The...
Obama’s Chinese Tendencies
In campaign speeches September 17 in the swing state of Ohio, President Obama railed against imported automotive components that are illegally subsidized by...
Federal Entitlements: Living Large in Poverty
Because of federal entitlements, those who are theoretically living in poverty actually have a standard of living comparable to and, in some cases,...
“Stand Your Ground” and Self Defense
Imagine that you and your family find yourselves in a potentially deadly situation in which an armed thug has entered your home in...
Let Capitalism Decide the Minimum Wage
For weeks now politicians in New York have debated ad nauseum Assemblyman Sheldon Silver’s proposal to increase the minimum wage in New York...
Obama Is Not an Insourcer
As an industrialist, I’ve taken an interest in President Barack Obama’s insourcing kick which has occurred over the past few weeks, highlighted by...
Payroll Tax Cut: Why Stop at $40?
On December 22 President Barack Obama released the following message through the White House’s Twitter account: "Thanks to all who shared #40dollars [sic]...
NLRB Pushes Unions’ Destructive Agenda
Although rarely looked at as such by the typical person, labor is an economic transaction. It’s a simple trade — one where the...