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  • GOP must stand up for the free market, including agriculture

    Published May 04, 2012

    Agriculture subsidies have become a third-rail entitlement and are simply out of control.

  • EPA video reveals Team Obama's scary crusade against affordable, reliable energy

    Published April 27, 2012

    The Al Armendariz approach to energy as an EPA official is the opposite of how regulators should behave.  They should try to protect our health and safety while allowing businesses to succeed and expand.  They shouldn’t 'crucify' anyone or anything.

  • Will the Senate stand up to Obama's union strongmen?

    Published April 24, 2012

    Here's why Tuesday's vote in the Senate on the Enzi Resolution has enormous practical and symbolic significance.  

  • It's a fact -- tax hikes don't work

    Published April 19, 2012

    President Obama and Democrats in Congress are trying to use the deficits created by their spending spree as an excuse to raise taxes. It’s a reckless approach that puts punishing success ahead of growing the economy and creating jobs.

  • Debit card price controls, a lesson in cronyism

    Published April 06, 2012

    Six months ago, the Federal Reserve implemented price controls on debit card swipe fees under the Durbin Amendment, one of the many deeply misguided provisions of Dodd-Frank. Six months of experience have shown that this experiment in regulatory intrusion has been all pain and no gain for consumers.

  • Electric rates will soar now that Obama's EPA has crushed coal-fired power plants

    Published March 29, 2012

    With the country focused on this week’s high drama over ObamaCare at the Supreme Court, President Obama’s EPA quietly released long-delayed regulations to apply global warming rules -- never authorized by Congress -- to new coal-fired power plants.

  • Battle of the health care flip-floppers -- how Romney can defeat Obama

    Published March 21, 2012

    Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have reversed their position on a national mandate requiring individuals to buy health insurance. If Romney simply acknowledge he was wrong, the American people will understand that it was Obama who broke a campaign promise. 

  • Let consumers, not bureaucrats decide our country's energy future

    Published March 08, 2012

    In the aftermath of Solyndra, politicians should recognize that its time to pull the plug on energy subsidies, scale back on onerous regulations, and let consumers, not bureaucrats, decide our country’s energy future.

  • Enzi Resolution needed to stop Obama's NLRB

    Published March 01, 2012

    No bureaucratic entity has wreaked more havoc on the U.S. economy of late than the National Labor Relations Board. The latest evidence of the anti-worker attitude at the NLRB comes from the agency’s own employees.

  • SEC joins running for worst rogue agency

    Published February 24, 2012

    The alphabet-soup federal bureaucracies seem to be engaged in a contest to see who can do the most to steamroll the legitimate legislative process and compromise freedom and economic growth.