Obama Strays From the Script, Reveals An Ideology He'd Prefer to Hide
The economic truth that eludes Obama is that in a market economy, honest participants prosper to the extent that they deliver value to others.
The economic truth that eludes Obama is that in a market economy, honest participants prosper to the extent that they deliver value to others.
Batman is a Kardashian, but with a little less padding.
The more fragile that your free enterprise might be, the more likely that your survival will be impacted by state and local tax burdens within your community.
The Islamists seem uninterested in what was the biggest applause line of Arab Spring demonstrations this past year. Now their inaction is costing them precious political support.
By Hadley Heath read »
When he was asking for our vote in 2008, then candidate Barack Obama famously promised the American people, “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” But as the Supreme Court has now authoritatively ruled, the Obamacare individual mandate, requiring workers to purchase the health insurance the government specifies each family[...] read »
I am currently reading Kwasi Kwarteng’s fascinating and exhaustive book, Ghosts of Empire, which examines the British Empire’s role in several very different former colonies such as Iraq, Sudan, Nigeria, Kashmir, Burma and even Hong Kong. One of Kwarteng’s central themes is how the paths of these nations were influenced not only by British ideals and values, but also those of the powerful colonial administrators who governed them. read »
Every few months or so, global warming alarmists revise their talking points and march like lemmings off a cliff with a new media catch phrase. The Official Global Warming Catch Phrase of Summer 2012 is “This is what global warming looks like.” Illustrating the reality that the entire global warming movement contains only enough intellectually productive brain cells to create but a single sentence that all the so-called big brains can remember and recite, everyone from alarmist scientician Jonathan[...] read »
Some notable achievements have resulted from mistakes. Columbus put America on the map in a misguided attempt to reach the East Indies by sailing west. Alexander Fleming discovered the lifesaving antibiotic properties of penicillin when a spore of mold accidentally landed in a bacteria culture. read »
America has a serious problem. The integrity of interest rates has been compromised. Free enterprise requires fidelity and trust. A banking cabal regularly conspires to rig rates benefiting large banks and their political allies. These actions almost certainly harm others. read »
Remember when an open microphone caught President Barack Obama asking Russia’s leaders for “space” until after the election in November? If the president had asked for political advice instead, the Kremlin’s keepers might have sketched out a strategy that looked remarkably like the one Obama’s campaign executed last week. read »
Shortages of certain pharmaceuticals, many of which have used in medicine reliably for decades, are terrifying patients and threatening their very lives. In 2010, there were approximately 211 shortfalls of availability of medicines reported to the FDA, about 80% of which involved sterile injectable drugs; in 2011, the number rose to about 267. (Because reporting is voluntary, the numbers are imprecise.) read »
President Obama tells us that the rich should give back to society. He even knows many wealthy people who want to give back more. (I guess they can’t until their taxes are raised). We learn from him that the rich owe their success not to business acumen and risk taking but to public roads, schools, the courts, food stamps, disability payments, workplace regulation, and other government services. We even owe the first rumblings of the internet to DARPA, unfortunately the research arm of the military-industrial[...] read »
It’s staple fare in opinion pages and textbooks these days that “inequality” has been on the rise in this country over the past generation. President Obama’s economic policy, for what it’s worth, has been based on this premise. The introduction to Obama’s first budget, back in 2009, went on at length: read »
