Year: 2013

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. That would be almost a 25 percent increase. Let’s look at the president’s proposal, but before doing so, let’s ask some other economic questions. Are people responsive to changes in price? For […]

For awhile last year, I wrote for the Tea Party News Network, I’m going to be covering CPAC for TPNN this year, and I’m in regular contact with Scottie Hughes and the rest of the crew over there. The Tea Party News Network folks have a very cool, new blogosphere-centered website design coming out later […]

Last year at CPAC, Right Wing News and TheTeaParty.net hosted blogger awards. This year, we’re doing the awards again. The nominees for each category are listed below and, with two noted exceptions, the winners will be selected by their fellow bloggers. On Friday, March 15th at 11 AM at CPAC, we’ll have big name conservatives […]

John Stuart Mill’s classic essay “On Liberty” gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people’s decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing “that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove extremely damaging.” […]

To commemorate Presidents Day and Washington’s Birthday, last week I highlighted the first four of the top 10 reasons I wish George Washington were still alive: 10) Washington was a role model for many, even as a youth. 9) Washington epitomized courage. 8) Washington wasn’t afraid of public opinion or challenging the status quo. 7) […]

President Obama told a meeting of the National Governors Association: “At some point, we’ve got to do some governing. And certainly, what we can’t do is keep careening from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis.” Really? Yes, really. He added, referring to the sequestration: “These cuts do not have to happen. Congress can turn them off […]

Last week, Bjorn Lomborg, the widely published Danish professor and director of one of the world’s leading environmental think tanks, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, published an article about the Philippines’ decision, after 12 years, to allow genetically modified (GM) rice — “golden rice” — to be grown and consumed in that country. The reason for […]

You’ve got to admit that it’s awfully precious that there was a huge controversy about “Zero Dark Thirty” because Kathryn Bigelow’s film suggested that enhanced interrogation techniques helped intelligence officials find Osama bin Laden but no controversy about the final mission in the movie — to kill, but not capture, the al-Qaida leader. Some of […]

President Obama and his media allies are pushing the notion that sequester will destroy Western civilization. States are saying that the cuts will devastate the economy, and the Pentagon insists they will “hollow out” the military. A total of 800,000 DOD employees will have to take a 20 percent pay cut. Head Start is at […]

ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) was one of those tea party stars whom voters believed had the courage of his convictions when he promised, as recently as last summer, to block The Affordable Care Act in his state. But last week, writes the Orlando Sentinel, “Scott made an abrupt about-face, embracing a three-year […]

The weather channel made a unilateral decision this season to start naming winter storms.:  The large snowstorms called Nemo and Plato are recent examples of this.:  Their argument is that this is a better way to communicate about an upcoming storm and track the destruction, such as has been used for hurricanes for decades.:  Some […]