Hong Kong — For 18 years running, Hong Kong has crossed the finish line first in the Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom. The 2012 edition finds Hong Kong ahead of Singapore and far in front of the U.S., which came i…
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Minimum Wage: $100 Per Hour?
From coast to coast, politicians want to hike the minimum wage. New York State legislators aim to lift it from $7.25 to $8.50 per hour. California lawmakers are weighing a boost from $8.00 to $8.50.
Ralph Nader recently urged the Occupy movement to dem…
The Unaffordable Care Act
President Obama’s health plan should be rechristened “The Unaffordable Care Act.” Precisely as Obamacare’s critics predicted, the officially titled Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is no bargain for taxpayers or patien…
The Real Photo-ID Civil-Rights Issue
In order to stymie new and proposed requirements that voters present photo identification at the polls, top Democrats cry rivers over those who would become disfranchised for lack of ID cards. If they really cared about these people — of whom the…
Our Debt, Not Our Children’s
When explaining the dangers of America’s ballooning national debt, fiscal conservatives unwittingly sabotage their cause by invoking “the children.” They should spend lots more time discussing how federal red ink harms adults today.
T…
Obamacare’s Bipartisan Critics
The ongoing controversy over President Obama’s universal female-contraception entitlement decree reportedly found Vice President Joseph Biden, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, former chief of staff Richard Daley, and five Democratic senators oppos…
The Ghosts of Voters Past
While Democrats dismiss vote fraud as a collective Republican hallucination, a study released Tuesday by the Pew Center for the States confirms the GOP’s concerns. The ghosts in America’s voting machines may be the least of our worries.
Pew…
The HHS Mandate: Why?
The most baffling thing about Obamacare’s new contraception mandate is why it is necessary at all.
Agree or disagree, one at least could understand if President Obama used Obamacare’s brass knuckles to beat insurance companies into covering…