When Amity Schales, academic economist and author of the bestselling The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, talks, people listen. And if they don’t, they should. So when I saw the headline Gold Standard for All, From Nuts to Paul Krugman, …

From Human Events:

President Barack Obama has displayed an insatiable appetite for higher taxes, but Americans are wary of trusting him with any more of their money.

He has demonstrated staggering economic incompetence, manifested in his weak “recovery,” a $1.3 trillion deficit, doubling gas prices, …

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 …

Watching the l’affaire Sandra Fluke, it almost seemed like the were were going to be looking at a slick, savvy Obama campaign game this year, perhaps even as much on their game as the 2008 campaign of legend. After all, they’ve already managed to take …

A colleague this morning hipped me to a short blog post from Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson on the subject of Keynesian stimulus. The question at hand in a previous of his blog posts was whether WWII was an example of an instance in …

Investigative report by Mark Flatten,
Goldwater Institute 

(See part 1)
Full Faith and Credit

The usual way for governments to go into debt is to issue bonds that are repaid through some type of taxes or fees. Usually the interest paid on government bonds …

Support for Obamacare has never stayed above 50% for more than brief periods; it usually significantly lower. It had to be rammed through quickly, without being read by those voting on it. In spite of majorities in both chambers, the Democrats barely got it through, …

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 …

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 …

The Obama Administration and the establishment media have been claiming for months now that the economy is recovering and people are finding jobs again.  Of course, blogs ranging from Breitbart.com all the way to Zero Hedge have long been disputing this, and Gallup …