In North Dakota, people have jobs. That state led the nation in job creation last year, and its unemployment rate is only 3.2 percent (compared to the national rate of 7.9 percent). Why? One word: energy. As Nicolas Loris, Heritage’s Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow, writes in a forthcoming paper: Technological advancements in directional drilling […]
North Dakota led the nation in job creation in 2012, according to a new report released by Gallup. The state has an unemployment rate of 3.2 percent, the lowest in the country according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s largely due to the energy boom created when new fracking technology and sensible state regulations […]
Photo credit: Newscom As wages in China rise with economic growth, some companies are beginning to look elsewhere for what was once China’s selling point: cheap labor. It just highlights the power that free trade provides—growing economies and raising living standards. Consider that wages in China are five times greater than they were in 2000, […]
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released a statement Thursday expressing concern with the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recent proposed update to the anti-conscience mandate in Obamacare. As Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the USCCB, explained: [The proposal] appears to offer second-class status to our first-class institutions in Catholic health care, […]
Photo credit: Newscom Supporters of the U.N.’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) are turning up the heat ahead of another push next month to finalize the treaty. Oxfam America is second to none in its advocacy of this bad treaty, and on Wednesday released a paper accusing opponents of the treaty of mounting a “campaign of […]
Yesterday, world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson presented the keynote address at the 61st Annual National Prayer Breakfast. With President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and other national leaders in attendance, Dr. Carson spoke plainly about the great challenges America faces today: “moral decay and fiscal irresponsibility.” “One of our big problems right now is […]
CA WANTS GUN OWNERS TO BUY ‘VIOLENCE LIABILITY INSURANCE’ AND SO DOES CT, MD, MA, PA AND NY!! DEMAND OUR STATES PROTECT THE SECOND AMENDMENT – STOP THE SELL-OUT NOW! URGENT: The leftwing enemies of the Second Amendment see their efforts to crush our ability to exercise our right to keep and bear arms stalling […]
The next time a cashier asks “paper or plastic?” think of Abbie Schoenwetter. He spent more than six years in federal confinement for shipping lobster in plastic instead of cardboard. There’s no American law against doing so. But thanks to a vague, overly broad, and otherwise unjust federal criminal law, the U.S. government claimed it […]
Photo credit: Newscom Last week, the Senate Commerce Committee issued a report to their chairman, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D–WV), claiming that most businesses supported an approach to cybersecurity similar to his Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (CSA). After reading their report, however, one thing is absolutely clear—most businesses do not support Rockefeller’s approach and the Commerce […]
STATE OBAMACARE STRATEGY IN PERIL Urgent Response Needed to Ohio Gov. Kasich’s Political Cowardice, Selfishness URGENT: Ohio Gov. John Kasich – who was propelled to victory in 2010 as a Tea Party conservative – has sold out his State AND us for 30 pieces of silver to the ObamaCare bandwagon, agreeing on Monday to expand […]
