By Rick Manning — Various media outlets breathlessly announced that there has been an immigration reform deal between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO which establishes something called “prevailing wage” into the parts of the private sector of the economy that rely on immigrant labor. […]

“Thomas Perez has both a troubling record of mismanagement and a radical leftist agenda that he is bent on imposing without regard for the law. His nomination should be rejected.”— Bill Wilson , President, Americans for Limited Government On March 19, 2013 President Obama nominated Thomas Perez […]

By Marta H. Mossburg Dateline:  March 27, 2020—The federal government today announced new regulations for buying fast food. Starting June 1, upon entering a national fast food chain restaurant or before ordering via a drive-thru each patron must undergo a Body Mass Index (BMI) analysis. […]

By Victor Morawski While my paper is not primarily intended to target professionals in this field, I should perhaps mention at the outset that there is an area of Ethics called “Metaethics” which focuses on the field of Ethics itself as its area of study.  […]

By Adam Bitely — Another Washington, D.C. gimmick has failed. The “No Budget, No Pay” act aimed to force the Senate to pass a budget for the first time in four years. While successful at doing that, that’s about all this effort accomplished. And the […]

By David Bozeman — The perversion of freedom, or the freedom of perversion? That is the prevailing question in 2013. Conservatives and libertarians casually toss around such concepts as “freedom,” “capitalism,” “individual liberty,” etc., as if listeners share the same outrage at marginal tax rates […]

By Rick Manning — Susan Sarandon has emerged from her crypt to join forces with radical environmentalists opposing hydraulic fracturing natural gas and oil production in New York. Daryl Hannah, an actress who is more famed for hanging out with Kennedys than for anything she has done […]

From Sen. Ron Johnson’s website : The root cause of our economic and fiscal problems is the size, the scope, and the cost of government – all the rules, all the regulations, and all the government intrusion into our lives. Over-regulation consumes massive amounts of the people’s money, too often […]

By Chris Skates — “Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying on our backs and hugging the elusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot?”—Patrick Henry I don’t know […]

By Ron Arnold — “What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They’ll kill us probably.” This private musing between two climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate […]