10.12.2011

Must Reads for October 12

10.12.2011

2012: The common sense election

By David Bozeman — Want to annoy a liberal?  Tell one that America needs a business-person as president to put our economic house in order.  Most libs will, however subtly, react defensively, given that their experiment in “transforming” America has turned out — how to […]

10.12.2011

The mouse that roared?

By Bill Wilson — It might not be an overstatement to say that the fate of representative government hangs in the balance as Slovakia has rejected the €440 billion European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). It fell 21 votes short of a majority. Was it the day the mouse roared? When a free people stood up — as did the people of Iceland recently — […]

10.11.2011

NLRB reform legislation aims at treating ‘disease,’ not just ‘symptoms’

Originally published in The Daily Caller By Matthew Boyle — Freshman Republican Rep. Austin Scott has introduced a bill he says would “politically neutralize” the National Labor Relations Board. Scott’s plan would remove adjudicatory power from the NLRB, but allow it to continue existing. That means the board would still oversee […]

10.11.2011

Time to end the first-class mail monopoly

By Rebekah Rast — The United States Post Office lost $8.5 billion last year .  If that were any private business, well, it wouldn’t exist any longer. But not the post office. Despite a 20 percent decrease in mail volume from 2006 to 2010 , and package-delivery competition from UPS and FedEx, somehow the post office stays afloat.   But […]

10.11.2011

A golden opportunity

By Robert Romano — Ever since the U.S. gold standard was weakened in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve system, then again during the Great Depression, when the domestic supply of gold was confiscated in 1933, and finally eliminated all together by Richard Nixon in […]

10.11.2011

Must Reads for October 11

10.11.2011

Guide to Protesters

Cartoon by William Warren

10.09.2011

America’s ‘Landed Bureaucracy’

By Howard Rich — “This land is your land, this land is my land.” That’s what the classic Woody Guthrie song would have us believe, but the truth is not nearly so idyllic — or accurate. That’s because accompanying government’s ongoing explosion beyond the boundaries […]

10.09.2011

ACORN re-emerges in Washington money game

By Kevin Mooney and Rick Manning — Tired of bipartisan Republicans who compromise the farm away on domestic policy? Frustrated with Republican presidents who allow far left Democrats to re-craft their legislation? If so, now would be an opportune moment to revisit conservative congressional Republican efforts to […]

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