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  • Green jobs versus reality

    Published February 10, 2012

    What are the “real jobs” that Rep. Henry Waxman supports?

  • Google is no friend of Internet freedom

    Published January 20, 2012

    The leading advocate of regulating the Internet now appears as an opponent of regulating the Internet. Bizarre.

  • Don’t let debt ceiling political theater in Congress distract from the real budget fight

    Published January 18, 2012

    Nobody believes that this week’s vote in Congress on the debt ceiling will make any difference for the level of federal government spending and debt going forward.

  • Obama's Cordray Appointment Mocks the Constitution

    Published January 04, 2012

    With his recess appointment of Richard Cordray President Obama has now adopted a theory of executive power so expansive that a reporter at a recent press conference asked whether the president believes the United States has a virtual monarchy. 

  • Boehner Won the Payroll Tax Showdown

    Published December 31, 2011

    The reality is that Speaker Boehner’s courageous stand on the payroll tax fight – in the face of certain political pillorying – saved the country from a disastrous outcome and he should be commended for his victory.

  • Speaker Boehner Is Right to Reject Two-Month Senate Bill for Payroll Tax Holiday

    Published December 19, 2011

    Let's get one thing straight: Republicans were not elected to continue paying people for nearly two years not to work. The House version of the payroll tax extension is a big step in the right direction. The Senate version is continuation of a failed policy.

  • It's Time for Congress to Stop Paying People Not to Work

    Published December 05, 2011

    House Republicans are facing a key test this week: will they listen to the small-government mandate that swept them into office? Or will they succumb to political pressure and advance a disastrous economic policy?

  • Why the Super Committee Deadlock Is a Victory, Not a Failure

    Published November 21, 2011

    Clearly, much more must be done to cut federal spending and avert a fiscal crisis. But real spending cuts were never on the table.

  • 'Occupy' Movement Is Not What Democracy Looks Like

    Published November 18, 2011

    In good Orwellian fashion, the occupiers chant: “this is what democracy looks like,” as if they hadn’t been resoundingly trounced in the last national elections.

  • Crunch Time to Stop the FCC's Internet Takeover

    Published November 08, 2011

    On December 21, 2010, President Obama’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fittingly chose the darkest day of the year to ignore Congress, the courts, the American people, and common sense.  They voted to unravel a decade of remarkably successful hands-off Internet policy and impose potentially devastating regulations on the previously free market Internet.