POLITICS

Fox News online reports: "Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Sunday that the administration's approval of a loan guarantee for solar power company Solyndra -- which went belly up shortly after a...

An excerpt from the Introduction to Andrew Bernstein's forthcoming book  Capitalist Solutions: A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas. Reprinted in Capitalism Magazine by permission of the author.   To be blunt, the United States faces enormous challenges...

"The great thing about Occupy Wall Street is that they have brought the focus of the entire country on the middle class majority," said George Aldro, 62, a member of Local 2325 of the United Auto Workers, as he carried the union's blue flag over his shoulder through...

??You've heard the saying, "Actions speak louder than words." It's really true. People can talk a good game all they like. It's under the stress of having to decide, and take action, that their true selves are revealed. America is in a grave crisis, perhaps one...

?For a brief second in time, objective truth emerged from Joe Biden's lips the other day. He declared that the current faltering economy "belongs to us, not Bush." Does this make Joe Biden a terrorist? After all, it's the same thing the Tea Party claims. And according...

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you! But I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You...

Imagine if government "invested" in religion the way it invests in automobiles, banking, medical care and tons of other activities and services. What do you think this would do to religion -- and government? The same applies to newspapers and media, which operate in...

?"Washington will spend $2.6 million training Chinese prostitutes to drink more responsibly on the job." So stated an October 2009 report written by Brian M. Riedl, a Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic...

Music megastar Lady Gaga is -- reportedly -- going to do her next album for free. Not surprisingly, Lady Gaga is also a known Obama supporter. Just what we need. Another millionaire in favor of socialism. Many of Lady Gaga's fans are socialists just like her. Yet if...

Incredibly, there’s antitrust action going on against Google. Google, which gives away its expert services! Search engines, led by Google, have revolutionized our lives. I noted this phenomenon back in 2003. It’s only 8 years ago, but it seems like a...

“Pass this bill now,” President Obama is repeatedly demanding, regarding his new American Jobs Act. There’s nothing new in the legislation, just more government spending, more transfers of money from “the rich” to Obama’s political...

On August 31, with job creation grinding to a complete halt, U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis was asked this question: “Why do you think there have been so many jobs created in the last decade in Texas?”  She laughed and said, “Come...

Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James B., when his careless son happened to break a square of glass? If you have been present at such a scene, you will most assuredly bear witness to the fact, that every one of the spectators, were there even...

Fox News online reports: "Obama's latest jobs plan calls for $130 billion in aid to state and local governments, providing either a welcome infusion of cash for those struggling with budget gaps, government layoffs and crumbling roads or merely a temporary patch for...

When Republican presidential candidates who oppose socialized medicine are asked, in essence, "What will you do with a sick person -- let him die?" the answer they normally give is, "Of course not. The government requires hospitals to provide emergency care, and it...

President Obama began his speech to Congress by saying: “The question is whether, in the face of an ongoing national crisis, we can stop the political circus and actually do something to help the economy.” In other words, “You oppose me because you...

"The American nation needs the tonic of a serious moral adventure."Ayn Rand once referenced this quote by Herbert Croly from The New Republic in describing the roots of war.  Upon first publication, this quote was an endorsement of Wilsonian thinking at the dawn...

Jobs growth is now, for the first time in American history, zero. Not a single new job was created in the American economy in the last month. Most people are understandably upset. But how upset is Obama? And how upset should people with his ideology really be? Zero...