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Another Crisis Brewing -- By Peter Morici
 Even Wal-Mart is too expensive for recession battered America.Everyday low prices are no longer enough — middle-class consumers are fleeing to dollar stores to stretch shrinking paychecks. Yet, Democratic politicians and economists who fashioned their failed policies tell us the economy is on... Read More
The War Against Achievement -- By Thomas Sowell
Published 11/19/13.A friend recently sent me a link to an inspiring video about an upbeat young black man who was born without arms. It showed him going to work -- unlike the record number of people living on government payments for "disabilities" that are far less serious, if not fic... Read More
Yet Another Triumph of Unlimited Government Obamacare is a complex, costly solution to a simple, less pricey problem. By Deroy Murdock
 Don’t raise the bridge. Lower the river, divert the water, steamroll the riverbed, and install a bullet train as an “affordable” bridge substitute.Such grandiose thinking is derailing Obamacare at breakneck speed. Long after it has passed from the American body politic, Obamacare will be remem... Read More
Open Letter to House and Senate Republican Leadership: Preserve the Sequester
  November 8, 2013  Dear Speaker Boehner and Leader McConnell, As you know, the recently passed Continuing Appropriations Act provides thegovernment with funding through January 15, 2014. As Congress considersappropriations for the remainder of the fiscal year, we urge you t... Read More
The Politics of Poverty: A Voice from Fly-Over Country -- By Robert Hale
 MINOT, ND -- Poverty in America is not an aberration. It should come as no surprise. It is not accidental, and it will continue to expand.  Poverty in America is big business -- big government business, big hate-mongering business, and great for groups thriving on strife.Poverty stimulate... Read More
Obamacare laid bare --By Charles Krauthammer
 Every disaster has its moment of clarity. Physicist Richard Feynman dunks an O-ring into ice water and everyone understands instantly why the shuttle Challenger exploded. This week, the Obamacare O-ring froze for all the world to see: Hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters wen... Read More
The First Hustler Runs the Big Con -- By Patrick J. Buchanan
“Nothing is lost save honor.”So said Jim Fisk after he and Jay Gould survived yet another scrape in their corrupt and storied careers in the Gilded Age.Fisk’s dismissal of honor came to mind while watching Barack Obama in Boston smugly explain how his vow — “If you like your health care plan, you ca... Read More
Obama's Costly Victory on Debt Ceiling -- by Peter Morici
To end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling without accepting any meaningful GOP conditions, President Obama resorted to falsehoods, wounded American democracy and damaged U.S. global leadership.The president accused the House GOP majority of refusing to pay bills Congress has already... Read More
Obama Grants Congress Special Exemption to Obamacare - By Peter J. Thomas and Peter Ferrara
If Obamacare is so good, why was Congress crying to President Obama for an illegal exemption, which he freely granted?When Congress passed Obamacare in 2010, it stated that Congress and its staff would be subject to it the same as everyone else. That is only fair that they should live under the same... Read More
Getting Out of the Budget and Debt Morass -- By Peter Morici
 The government shutdown is proving less draconian than presidential warnings, but failing to raise the debt ceiling and default would be another matter.So many government activities have been deemed essential by legislation or presidential order that only 15 percent of the federal government i... Read More

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