Economy
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Democratic insider: If Hillary wins, expect a ‘Clinton co-presidency’
My ongoing effort to understand why the Clintons are able to stomp on, skirt, or just plain ignore unwritten rules…
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New York State Assembly passes single-payer health care bill
In what is seen as a largely symbolic gesture, the New York State Assembly has voted 89-47 in favor of a…
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Pacific trade pact could boost No. 1 ‘Tex-ports’
Powered by its energy sector, Texas leads the nation in exports. Shipping out $326 billion worth of goods and services…
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Democrats label lazy welfare recipients as ‘working families’
Welfare is often unpopular with the voters who fund it through their taxes. So California politicians and academics who support it…
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Libs getting super angry about Hillary’s super PAC hypocrisy
At a meeting with financial supporters last week, presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton vowed that any Supreme Court nominations she made who…
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Don’t look now, but the economy is tanking toward recession again
The Wall Street Journal is being perhaps too optimistic, reporting as it did on Friday that despite the facc that…
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University pulls funding for think tank because it’s run by global warming skeptic
Professor Bjorn Lomborg has become the target of environmental activists. Last week, activists convinced the University of Western Australia to cancel…
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GOP takes ‘vital first step’ toward repealing Dodd-Frank
Now that Republicans control Congress, some are hoping to scale back onerous financial regulations imposed by Democrats in response to…
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Obama’s world: Destroy coal industry, then throw money at coal workers who lost jobs
Sadly, the only war where our president doesn’t lead from behind is the “war on coal.” This war is having…
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Regulation nation: Federal regs cost economy $1.88 trillion in 2014
Federal regulations cost the U.S. economy an estimated $1.88 trillion in 2014, a sum greater than the gross domestic product…
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Report: Money that Cuomo diverted from Sandy relief to promote business in NY yielded ‘no tangible results’
As much as $211 million dollars spent by the Cuomo administration to sell the concept of “business in New York” produced…
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In his big speech at Nike Obama asks critics to take his word on TPP
President Barack Obama (aka Air POTUS — see tweet below) gave a speech at Nike headquarters Friday touting the job…
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States mull tax hikes as Congress dithers over highway bill
State governments face mounting pressure to raise gas taxes as consensus continues to elude Congress with less than a month…
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BLS: All job gains among females since 2007 have gone to foreign-born women
All employment gains among females since the Great Recession in 2007 went to foreign-born women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.…
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Las Vegas suburb reportedly looking to strip ‘integrity, respect, leadership ’ from its core values
Many Americans rightly feel there is a lack of integrity, respect, and creativity in our country these days. Yet one of…
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Rick Perry waffles over Ex-Im Bank
Economic populism is an ill-fitting boot for Rick Perry. The former Texas governor came out against the Export-Import Bank Tuesday,…
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Water war: Virginia Senators blast EPA ‘end-run’ rule
Virginia’s 21 Republican state senators say a “Waters of the United States” rule targets farmers and could cost the state…
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Video: Prager U on Calvin Coolidge, the best president you don’t know
Who’s the most underrated president in American history? Here’s a hint: He was the 30th president. Here’s another: His name is…
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About half of state Obamacare exchanges may go belly up
According to the Washington Post about half of the Obamacare heath insurance exchanges set up by the states are real…
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Deceptive anti-discrimination laws undermine justice and harm small businesses
Discrimination may be bad for business, but that doesn’t mean laws banning discrimination are good for business. Often, these laws…
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Vatican paper: Ditch capitalism to stop global warming
Pope Francis is about to release his encyclical about global warming and is expected to advocate for cutting the fossil fuel use…
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GAO: Dept. of Energy’s green energy loans, predicted to turn profit, will lose money
It’s official: The Energy Department’s green energy loan program is expected to lose money despite media reports that such loans…
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Liberals peddle debunked myths about corporate personhood
Progressivism is essentially a religion based on a set of shared myths and boogeymen. True believers cling to those myths…
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Did Jeb Bush just support a U.N. global warming treaty?
Is Jeb Bush now a global warming crusader, or is this just a liberal attempt to smear his conservative credentials?…
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VA pats itself on the back, says other hospitals should take a lesson
On Wednesday the V.A. tweeted out an article from Quartz written by Kathleen Carey, which stated that in terms of cost-savings, U.S.…
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Allen West mocks Andrew Cuomo’s costly failed jobs-creation program, Start-Up NY
Former Florida Representative, current head of a prominent free-market think tank in Texas, and friend of LU Allen West has joined…
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White House policy: Iranian oil good, Keystone XL bad
The Obama administration’s effort to ease sanctions on Iran could unleash about 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day onto international markets…
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The AAUW’s myths about equal pay and discrimination
Today is Equal Pay Day. That means it’s time for false statistics and legal claims from groups pushing for red tape about employee pay, such as…
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Study: Federal ‘crop insurance’ bloats costs, plays favorites
Getting government out of the crop insurance business would save consumers nearly $1 billion a year. A new study finds that…
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Enviros aren’t sold on Hillary Clinton’s commitment to fighting global warming
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has got a problem coming from her political left: environmental groups who think she’s not outspoken…
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