Opinion

Stimulus Dollars in Seattle Fail to Create Green Jobs as Promised

Seattle, Washington, is one of 25 communities that received $20 million from the Stimulus program as part of “Retrofit Ramp-Up” — an initiative...

Raven Clabough August 18, 2011

Private Contractors Feeding at the Public Trough

Bob Adelmann August 18, 2011

The latest ranking of contractors providing services to the federal government reveals that at least nine of the top 10 are tied to...

E-Verify Is a Threat to Liberty!

Tom DeWeese August 18, 2011

I don’t know Peter Gadiel, and he apparently knows absolutely nothing about me. But that hasn’t stopped him from attacking me in a...

Rick Perry: The New Bulldozer on the Block

Sam Blumenfeld August 17, 2011

Rick Perry’s self-propelled entry into the contest for the Republican presidential nomination is creating a bit of a stir among conservatives. He missed...

Republican Party Blindness

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. August 17, 2011

Beginning in 2000, with the election to the presidency of George W. Bush, the Republican Party enjoyed control over both the legislative and...

Ominous Parallels: Obama and FDR

Walter E. Williams August 17, 2011

People are beginning to compare Barack Obama's administration to the failed administration of Jimmy Carter, but a better comparison is to the Roosevelt...

Mayor Nutter Spoke the Truth About Race

Thomas Sowell August 17, 2011

Someone at long last has had the courage to tell the plain, honest truth about race. ...

Where’s My Mail?

Ralph R. Reiland August 17, 2011

I don’t want to sound like Lansberry, the legendary Pittsburgher who walked around town for decades with a protest sign saying that the...

Regulatory Agencies Boom Under Obama Administration

Brian Koenig August 17, 2011

While the private-sector is drowning under a perpetual recessionary storm, U.S. regulatory agencies are flourishing. "If the federal government’s regulatory operation were a...

Ending Ethanol Subsidies Won’t Reduce Food Costs After All

Bob Adelmann August 17, 2011

The recent attempt to terminate both the ethanol subsidies of $.45 a gallon and the $.54-per-gallon import tariff on Brazilian sugar-based ethanol by...

Leviathan’s Laws: The Insanity of New York City Housing

Becky Akers August 17, 2011

I’ll be the first to agree that politicians and bureaucrats have no principles. But government itself does; like other entities, it operates according...