ACORN's Original Sin
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, better known as ACORN, will shut its doors as a national operation next week. A wellspring of activism for four decades, the left-wing group...
View ArticleHow to Oppose ObamaCare
President Barack Obama came into office promising hope and change. But he might get more change than he hoped for. By foisting ObamaCare on a deeply unwilling country he might have set the stage for...
View ArticleAsia Rising
Wendell Cox has issued his most recent global study of population growth in urban areas, and the results are important, even sobering, for those trying to understand world economic and political...
View ArticleNon-Violent Resistance to ObamaCare
ObamaCare this week was signed, sealed and delivered to the American people. The question is what now? Should Americans simply sit back and accept its panoply of Big Government provisions like the...
View ArticleStates' Rights Versus Obamacare
The passage of comprehensive health care reform has many implications, but few are likely to fully appreciate the most fundamental impact of all: How the bill undermines the core principle of American...
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Florida to Expand Tax Credit School Choice Program
Close to six thousand people marched together at the Florida State Capitol to hear from legislators and the Governor about the value of the Florida Scholarship Tax Credit program. During the rally,...
View ArticleBritain Must Get Its Fiscal House in Order
A group of leading economists, including one former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund and a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, recently signed a letter, warning of the need...
View ArticleCA Will Vote on Legalizing Marijuana
State election officials announced Wednesday that an initiative to legalize marijuana will be on the November ballot, triggering what will likely be an expensive, divisive and much-watched campaign to...
View ArticleState Lawmakers Reining In Runaway Pensions for State Workers
In Illinois "Future government employees throughout Illinois would have to work longer to get full retirement benefits, and the size of those pensions would be limited. . ." according to a Chicago...
View ArticleHealthcare Bill's Impact on GDP
Well, the stories of how health care "reform" is going to slowly chip away at economic growth in America are only going to get more extensive and details from here on out, but here is one of the first...
View ArticlePrivate Transit Service Steps Up in Silicon Valley
One of the most common arguments for subsidizing public transit is that the private sector won't (or can't) provide the service. Yet, black market taxis--"gypsy" cabs--are common in large and small...
View ArticleObama: Just Pass Something on Wall Street Reform
Last week the battle in the Senate over financial services reform took an unexpected twist. The GOP decided to let the Dodd bill pass through the banking committee without a fight and duke out the war...
View ArticleIn the Drug War, Drugs Are Winning
When someone next door is coping with trouble, the neighborly thing to do is help. Mexico has a growing problem with extreme violence. And many people in California have a good idea of how to...
View ArticleLittle Grrrls Lost
When will President Obama create a Manhattan Project for girl groups? The stimulative power of girl groups has been clear throughout economic history. France and Italy, which in the early 1960s were...
View ArticleProgress and Challenges in Mississippi
Last week Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour signed House Bill 1456, which would require anyone conducting autopsies in the state to be certified in forensic pathology by the American Board of Pathology....
View ArticleMasters of Distraction
The mob is furious. And while it hollers about "killing" bills, Republicans stoke the fury by calling on citizens to "target" races in "battleground" states.Get it? "Target." The violent intentions are...
View ArticleLighting the Global Debt Fuse
In a recent commentary I discussed the pending sovereign debt crisis gripping several countries around the world. Unprecedented peace time fiscal stimulus have given rise to rapidly accumulating...
View ArticleUnions Versus School Reform: Race to the Top Edition
Today the Obama Administration announced Delaware and Tennessee as the two winners of round one of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTTT) competitive education grant program. The Obama Administration...
View ArticleShould the Federal Government Subsidize Biking?
Recently, a reader of my previous blog post on the U.S. Department of Transportation's decision to put biking and walking on a "level playing field" noted that really DOT's decision was an effort to...
View ArticleCollege Kids are Foodies on Food Stamps
The college board reports that college students actually pay less out-of-pocket college tuition these days because of generous government subsidies.Although average published tuition and fees increased...
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