Year: 2016

President Obama and GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan want to expand it. Tax preparation companies and illegal immigrants are cashing in on it. Fraudsters have found bottomless ways to exploit it. The earned income tax credit, a bipartisan-supported “anti-poverty” benefit, is robbing honest, law-abiding Americans blind. Originally intended to help low- to moderate-income working individuals […]

The first step in inventing something shouldn’t be waiting for government approval. What would ever get done? “Regulators like to see new types of law and regulation imposed upon the internet and emerging technologies,” warns Adam Thierer, author of “Permissionless Innovation.” “From drones to driverless cars to the ‘internet of things’ … they want to […]

White teenage unemployment is about 14 percent. That for black teenagers is about 30 percent. The labor force participation rate for white teens is 37 percent, and that for black teens is 25 percent. Many years ago, in 1948, the figures were exactly the opposite. The unemployment rate of black 16-year-old and 17-year-old males was […]

The gender gap, a reality of American politics since the Roe v. Wade decision almost 50 years ago, is defining this 2016 election. But it is a different sort of gender gap — it originates with male voters, not women. According to Fox News polls, Hillary Clinton is running 14 points ahead among women, down […]

Last week, California State University, Los Angeles held a “healing space” event to provide a safe forum for students and professors to unleash their feelings about my campus speech in February, sponsored by the Young America’s Foundation. That speech, you may recall, was originally canceled by university President William Covino. After I decided to go […]

She sat at the kitchen table the other day, looking at an album. He peered over her shoulder and held her hand as she stared at a photograph. That photograph. In it, she is the happy, young and beautiful bride. He is the serious, skinny groom, looking stunned, like some hoofed forest creature staring helplessly […]

Yesterday the Guardian.com posted an article entitled, “The pragmatic progressive: what sets Obama apart from Bernie Sanders.” They kind of throw Sanders under the bus – not for being too progressive, but for not being “pragmatic,” like our dear president. First, let me define pragmatic. It is, “of or relating to a practical point of […]

Perhaps it’s time to bring back the American Liberty League. Forgotten by everyone save a few history buffs, primarily on the libertarian right and the Marxist left, the League was formed early in Franklin Roosevelt’s first term by John Jakob Raskob, a former head of the Democratic Party. Its leadership comprised mostly conservative small-government Democrats, […]

Federal officials are predicting doom because a Pennsylvania woman became infected with a germ that can’t be stopped by most antibiotics. “The medicine cabinet is empty for some patients,” warned Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Thomas Frieden last week. You’d think the CDC was finally ready to get serious about drug-resistant infections. Think […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang presents The Raymond Ibrahim Moment with Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He discussed The Pope Who Gained the World, But Lost His Own Soul, unveiling Pope Francis’ Jihad on Christianity. Don’t miss it! Also make sure to watch Raymond discuss Islamic Hate for […]

Russia is reviving its military cadet program, Yunarmiya, which will be relaunched across the country later this year. The program’s goal is the “growing of a generation of citizens who treat the history with care, who are kind and responsive, ready to build a bright future for themselves and for their country,” according to General-colonel […]