The Heartland Institute last week hosted a luncheon lecture with author and presidential scholar Tevi Troy, who talked about his new book, What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted: 200[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · FIRE
The full bill for Obama’s failed economic policies has yet to arrive. But no such explosion of debt has ever escaped a day of reckoning, and no such monetary surge has ever had a happy ending.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
As people are literally being forced to live in the dark, there will be public outcry.
The last remaining glimmer of Obama’s political capital and personal appeal, and thus his ability to help vulnerable Democrats in the 2014 elections and beyond, is flowing into the septic tank of Progressive history.
Featured · Government · Podcast · Politics
As conservatives, we need to be conscious and well-read, and demand that our elected officials be the same.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
President Obama is going to hit his perpetual campaign trail to tell Americans that the economy is turning around and that his policies of the first four years have worked. They have not.
Conor Friedersdorf responds to my points regarding the importance of limited government as the core to conservative reform. “But George W. Bush, the last Republican to win the presidency since[...]
With the opening of the George W. Bush Library this week in Texas, plenty of journalists are writing long think-pieces about the man and his legacy, which basically amount to[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
My enduring question for progressives is one they typically avoid answering, especially those holding elected office: In your perfect world, where, exactly, would you position the top rate?
President Obama insists that he’s prepared for a fight over the sequester with House Republicans. But his remarks read less like a politician scrapping for a fight than one who’s had a[...]
Economics · FIRE · Legal Affairs · Politics
Like Captain Renault in the 1942 movie Casablanca, I am “shocked… shocked” to find that gambling has been going on in the mortgage-backed securities business. And so, apparently, is the[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
Despite the lies, spin, and spun lies pouring from the mouths of nearly everyone involved in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations or speaking for those who are involved in them, some[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Politics · Taxes
[First published at Forbes and the Heartlander.] President Obama seems to have a strategy to terminate all of the Bush tax cuts, not just those for “the rich,” as he has been[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Politics
[First posted at The American Spectator.] With a second term for Obama, the world-leading America we have known and hoped to leave to our children will be gone. June’s jobs report[...]
Former President George W. Bush policy guru Pete Wehner is very disappointed in these increasingly heartless Republicans. Earlier this month, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released a[...]
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Some ideas sound so plausible that they can fail nine times in a row and still be believed the tenth time. Other ideas sound so implausible that they can succeed[...]
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