By Paul Driessen — Seven score and nine years ago, President Lincoln resolved to take increased devotion to ensuring that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the Earth. Yet, today, our lives are determined not so […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Obama campaign roiled by conflict — Politico Halperin: Media susceptible to doing what Obama wants — Weekly Standard How to judge Paul Ryan’s fiscal conservatism — Cato Is Paul Ryan a big government conservative? — Daily Caller Will both Obama and Romney raise taxes? — Bloomberg Obama’s ugly campaign — NetRightDaily Crowding out private-sector success — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Where Free-Market economists go wrong — Reason Could weak growth get even more feeble? — OC Register Mediscare returns — Cato To protect ethanol, Obama seeks to inflate meat prices — […]

By Rebekah Rast — Corporate welfare to favored businesses and industries has swelled in this country. Both sides of the political aisle like it and are equally responsible for it. No matter the consequences or cost to taxpayers, corporate welfare is scattered throughout our nation’s […]

By Paul Driessen — If America had a “Spend Like a Drunken Sailor Award,” Navy Secretary Ray Mabus would win hands-down, for blowing $12 million on biofuel for Navy ships. Even as the armed services face drastic budget cuts under “automatic sequestration” and other proposed […]

As originally published by Investor’s Business Daily. By Howard Rich — Nearly two centuries ago Daniel Webster stood before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of James McCulloch, head of the Baltimore branch of the Second Bank of the United States. At issue were two basic questions: Did the federal government have […]

99% of species and humans are ill served by the 0.1% UN and environmentalist elites By Paul Driessen and David Rothbard — The UN Conference on Sustainable Development is underway in Rio de Janeiro. This time, 20 years after the original 1992 Rio “Earth Summit,” […]

By Paul Driessen — The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists. The latest chapter in the sorry ethanol saga is […]

By Mary Kay Barton — President Obama’s mantra du jour for his 2012 campaign speeches is “all-inclusive” energy.  Any business touting this version of “all-inclusive” would be prosecuted for false advertising. When the President says “all-inclusive,” he means politically correct (PC) “green” energy (wind, solar […]

By Paul Driessen — When President Obama took office, regular gasoline cost $1.85 a gallon. Now it’s hit $4.00 per gallon in many cities, and some analysts predict it could reach $5.00 or more this summer. Filling your tank could soon slam you for $75-$90. […]

By Rick Manning and Rebekah Rast – As if the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solyndra scandal wasn’t enough for American taxpayers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture decided to jump on the bandwagon of bad tax dollar investments as well. This bad investment was a USDA-backed biofuels plant […]