In the 1950s, only one in 20 workers needed a license to work. Today, that figure is 1 in 3. Occupational licensing is killing business and jobs. Costs, training, years spent jumping through hoops instead of actually working.

Oh, and Arizona is one of the worst.

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In what is being described as “one of the biggest abdications of power we have seen on the part of our government in modern time,” the United States Senate is now three years into their failure to do their most basic legal responsibility: …

Sen. Al Melvin, R-26
Chair, Senate Commerce and Energy Committee

(State Capitol, Phoenix) – Angered by the Obama Administration’s radical environmental policies, a trio of Arizona state lawmakers is calling on Congress to “rein in” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal bureaucracies whose policies …

(Update: Lott has an updated version of his piece at National Review.)

Actually, that headline gives the president too much credit. As anyone who has had a high fever can tell you, one cannot exactly guarantee  the rationality of every passing thought in such …

One of the nicest things about being a conservative is that you don’t have to say really stupid things just to establish your bona fides the way that liberals do..

For instance, ever since 1987, when Al Sharpton came to prominence by trashing the NYPD on …

The data continue to come in, and Obama’s sudden, miraculous, saintlike affirmation of the timely beauty of same-sex unions does not appear to be helping him.

WH getting blowback from African-American churches over gay-marriage stance

Barney Frank told the panel on ABC’s This Week that …

If you haven’t seen it yet, well, now you have:

Commentators are now using phrases to describe Newsweek like “jumped the shark.” The gist is this: we who are daily steeped in these issues all have long known that Newsweek is biased …

In the previous post, we discussed the media’s naked attempt to paint Mitt Romney as an anti-gay bully, right at the moment when Obama is burnishing his lightworker cred with his entranced followers on the left. It wasn’t a particularly good attempt, …

One of the good things about Mitt Romney as a candidate is that he appears to be pretty well vetted and squeaky clean. After all, if that were not the case, why would the pro-Obama media (but I repeat myself) have to reach back to …

I have only just gotten started with this series of videos from LearnLiberty.org, but already, I am in love. It is essential—ESSENTIAL, I say—that conservatives and libertarians learn about the core ideology that we share in common: Classical Liberalism. When we understand the basics, we …