From 1955 until I graduated in 1959, I was a student at the University of Miami. Those were halcyon years for me, enhanced by Florida’s famed bounty of sunshine and warmth. Born and raised in New Jersey, it was a respite from the Garden State’s winters, shoveling snow, and enduring the chill.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics · Regulation
The Obama administration has done its part fulfill the promise to “punish our enemies.” It is the only promise this president has kept, and is a grave danger to our liberty.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
In this podcast, Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy discusses in greater detail his article on the Heartlander titled “A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved”. In[...]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent comments disparaging “white suburban moms” for protesting new national tests and curriculum mandates are not the isolated remarks of an out-of-touch elitist. His attitude is typical among bureaucrats from both parties regarding Common Core, but politicians who ignore this sleeper topic endanger themselves in 2014 and 2016.
Featured · Politics · Regulation
As we have come to learn, the facts never stop President Obama from using every murder to advance his agenda to strip Americans of their guns.
With the collapse of the real estate bubble, many normally self-sufficient individuals and families found themselves not only out of work, but homeless. This caused a surge in the number of “tent cities” in the United States. To really help our fellow man, we should shift from enabling others to not work to insisting that they do.
New data from the American Community Survey makes it possible to review the trend in mode of access to employment in the United States over the past five years. This[...]
he Democrats are openly supporting President Obama’s seizure of the power to rule by decree. The question is, will the voters support this Democrat suspension of democracy and of the rule of law?
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Science
The notion of the seas rising, swamping coastal cities, and creating havoc is the stuff of science fiction, not science.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
“If the mayor applied his risk-averse trans-fat banning, soda-size limiting science to the risks of composting in NYC he wouldn’t be making it mandatory, he’d be banning it.”
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
In the race to the financial bottom the State of Illinois vies nicely with several other states, including (depending on the precise year involved) California, New York, and Ohio, with[...]
New York City is famous for a lot of things, from the Statue of Liberty to the 9/11World Trade Center attacks, from Rockefeller Center to Seventh Street delis, from Times[...]
[Patrick Moffitt is the co-author of this four-part piece. Read Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here.] As previous posts have tried to show. we already have too many “answers”[...]
[Patrick Moffitt is the co-author of this piece. Read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.] In Hurricane Sandy’s aftermath – with millions freezing and hungry in dark devastation, including nursing home[...]
[Patrick Moffitt is the co-author of this piece. Read Part 1 here.] Mayors and governors cannot say they weren’t adequately warned, not just once, but time and time again – in news stories, reports, photographs and graphic personal[...]
[Patrick Moffitt is the co-author of this piece.] In the wake of “Superstorm” Sandy, the political spin and distractions reached hurricane proportions. “It’s global warming, stupid,” declared Bloomberg BusinessWeek after monster winds and waves[...]
Government does not even have the power to take guns away from criminals. It can only take guns away from the victims of criminals. This is not a matter of[...]
Economics · Environment/Energy
Earlier this month, two Ohio economists published a paper downplaying the economic impacts of natural gas drilling in Ohio. They argued that optimistic employment projections should be shifted downwards and[...]
The recent “occupation” of Wall Street has shed light on what is becoming an unfortunate phenomenon in American society; the purposeless protest, the destructive demonstration, movements that serve only to[...]
Peter Meyer at EdNext chronicles his must-read experience as a school board member for a small town in upstate New York. Recently, his board voted 4-3 to impose an extra[...]
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