The ongoing riots in Charlotte over the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott has some outraged observers wondering if “white lives matter.” Influential finance blogger Zero Hedge, among others, have drawn attention to a video posted on social media that appears to show black Charlotte rioters “beating, dragging, stripping, and laughing at an innocent white man.” Many were […]
With an estimated 100 million people tuning in to watch Monday night’s presidential debate, the topic of conversation for the week will be the showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, therefore giving you ample opportunity to talk conservative policy. But you’ll have to be diligent in this endeavor as the memorable moments in presidential […]
Members of Congress are preparing to be quite active during the lame-duck session. That’s good news for cronies who want to use the political system to secure handouts but bad news for taxpayers and the economy. The targeted tax credits Congress is considering include windfalls for hybrid solar lighting systems, fuel cells, geothermal, biomass, combined […]
It’s not every day you see a significant portion of Republican senators supporting a taxpayer bailout—especially for a private union pension plan. But today, six of the 14 Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee joined with Democratic counterparts in favor of a multibillion-dollar bailout of the United Mine Workers of America’s pension and health […]
By Daniel Greenfield The wave of Muslim refugee terror began with a bomb targeting a U.S. Marine charity run in New Jersey. By evening a pressure cooker full of shrapnel has exploded outside a Manhattan building for the blind. An hour later, a rampaging Muslim terrorist began stabbing people inside a Macy’s, asking them if […]
By Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO at Gallup The Invisible American I’ve been reading a lot about a “recovering” economy. It was even trumpeted on Page 1 of The New York Times and Financial Times last week. I don’t think it’s true. The percentage of Americans who say they are in the middle or upper-middle […]
By Walid Shoebat When it comes to the war on terror, the big problem in this country are the so-called terror analysts and experts who aid the terrorists instead of national security. One real loon is CNN’s National Security Analyst, Peter Bergen. Today he writes giving his ‘expert view’ on the latest bombing by Rahami. […]
On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the House Financial Services Committee passed the Financial CHOICE Act. Among other needed financial reforms, the bill would make taxpayer-funded bailouts of big banks less likely and ease regulations that hurt community banks. It’s hardly a surprise that the vote (30–26) was largely along party lines, but some of the anti-CHOICE […]
The essence of human freedom, of civilization itself, is cooperation: cooperation between friends and family; businesses and customers; entrepreneurs and employees. History and human experience teach that humans cooperate best when they do so voluntarily, without government coercion. That is why I fully support the eventual transition of control over the internet from the Department […]
It was 9 o’clock at night when Bill Meierling, a top official at the American Legislative Exchange Council, received the word from NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show.” ALEC’s newly appointed CEO, Lisa Nelson, was scheduled to appear the next morning on Rehm’s long-running, Washington-based radio show. But ALEC’s critics on the left had posted their […]
