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President Obama revealed his top policy goals for 2014 during his State of the Union address in January.  Among these is a 39% increase the federal minimum wage.  As the first step toward this increase, he announced our federal government would begin voluntarily paying its minimum-wage contract workers 39%

On January 17, President Obama gave a speech announcing his proposed reforms to the NSA’s illegal mass-surveillance programs.  The mainstream media surprisingly lauded his speech as a great step toward bringing these programs in line with the Constitution.  Even generally conservative media outlets such as the Wall Street

What kind of parent would secretly take out a loan in their child's name?  When Baby Boomers vote for expanded federal healthcare entitlements, including free pharmaceutical drugs, the costs won’t be coming out of their pockets.  Instead the costs will simply be dug out of the  enormous

While the American economy continues to totter down the road, our stock market is bounding.  The Dow Jones industrial average reached 15,783 for the first time yesterday.  This record-setting performance is almost miraculous.  In an economy averaging a troublingly-low 2.1% average growth rate since 2010, a

Amia Srinivasan was recently published in the New York Times with an article titled, “Questions for Free-Market Moralists.”  It is a fine example of the anti-market arguments being made in the United States today, particularly in the way it cleverly implies that free markets are economically and morally

Reports indicate that Syrian rebel forces have staged and executed a large massacre of Syrian civilians.  This is a black eye for the United States, which began supporting the rebels on the basis of the Syrian government's violence against civilians. According to Human Rights Watch, “Armed opposition groups

As of 8:00 pm in Washington, D.C., the House of Representatives is working on its third debt ceiling proposal in the past week.  The first bill would have completely defunded the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as “Obamacare.”  It was quickly rejected by the Senate.  The second bill

The Affordable Care Act does more than reshape the economics of health insurance in the United States.  The ACA creates winners and losers – some Americans benefit, and others are harmed.  Many people are comfortable believing it is only the wealthy on the losing side, but that isn’t correct.  The

The question of the day is, “Should the United States go to war in Syria?”  Americans seem to have two common answers: no, because our country is in debt, and another war would add to the burden; or yes, because our country should put an end to the crimes against

The Obama administration has made the claim that the President has full authority to commit the United States to the war in Syria on the side of the opposition, without approval from Congress.  That claim is patently false.  In fact, President Obama himself disagreed with this position before his election.