Voters in Europe have chosen the welfare state delusion over reforms that would enable the region to become prosperous again.

In Greece, and now France, outright socialists have taken control of the levers of power.  The person responsible for the maximum 35-hour workweek in …

Speaker of the House Andy Tobin (R-District 1)

Republicans passed a budget this week and, as usual, we did so without the help of Democrats. Despite the fact that we made no cuts in essential services while providing $150 million for statewide K-12 education funding, $21 …

Last year, Bill Whittle, using research by IowaHawk, proved dispositively that it is not possible to cover our deficit or debt by taxing the rich (see below). It cannot be done even by taking absolutely every penny they have, nor every penny of …

By Byron Schlomach, Ph.D.

After well over four years in Arizona, my wife and I have finally sold our property in Texas and we’re ready to buy a house here. I work near downtown Phoenix, but we’d like a little room and we’re not flush with …

It seems that Republicans and Democrats agree on one thing:  the federal government should continue dumping taxpayer money into the financial vampire that is the university system.  Both parties have arrived at the conclusion that the interest rate on federally-subsidized student loans for undergraduates …

Time is running out until colleges across the country fill their stadiums with the parents and families of graduates for commencement ceremonies.  Herds of students will pretend to listen as people who have already made it dispense platitudes about achievement, the future, and all sorts …

The 2009 version of this video was instructive, but now the author has real data to work with. If previous presidents were putting the pedal to the metal on increasing the debt, Obama added rocket engines to the car.

See for yourself:

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How do the Obama deficits …

Here’s David Harsanyi in Human Events:

It’s official: Obama, the Food-Stamp President

A new report from the Congressional Budget Office states that there are now almost 45 million Americans getting food stamps — or, officially, the more genteel Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

That’s …

Decade of Obamacare will cost $1,160 billion

How much will Obamacare — call it the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act if you like — cost over the next 10 years?

More than you’ve been led to believe, reports Charles Blahous of George Mason University’s …

In the previous post, we discussed the the uselessness of the Buffett tax as a revenue generator. In this video from LearnLiberty.org, Professor Antony Davies shows in a very easy-to-understand three-minute lesson that revenue is pretty static no matter what the tax rate, in …