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Delaware's Unclaimed Property Racket: John Gotti would be proud

Who would have guessed that the State of Delaware’s third largest revenue source would essentially be a mafia-like combination of extortion and theft? That’s certainly how it sounds when you read...

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It's.The.Law.

Last Thursday, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) started a Twitter prairie fire with his call for people to describe #ObamacareInThreeWords. (My contribution was “Sorry, Doctor retired.”) Other gems...

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The Real Cause and Lessons of the IRS Scandal

During Friday morning’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the IRS targeting scandal, Liberal Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) at least had the honesty to say “I don’t like the right.” Each...

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Hickenlooper gives "reprieve" to murderer Nathan Dunlap

With the hornets nest of conservative and libertarian anger which Colorado Governor John “I’m a moderate” Hickenlooper stirred up by supporting a raft of anti-gun legislation in this once-red state, I...

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Real Immigration Reform Requires Free Markets

Only in the United States Congress could a legislative provision entitled “Market-Based H-1B Visa Limits” actually mean that “the number of visas calculated under subparagraph (A) for any fiscal year...

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The Democrats' Walmart Obsession

  Last week, the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce released a report purporting to show that low wages for Walmart employees hurts taxpayers and economic growth....

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Black English and a Bad Saint Bernard

“A lot of people think Black English is just bad grammar, but that’s like saying that a cocker spaniel is a bad kind of Saint Bernard…” – Columbia University Associate Professor of Linguistics John...

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Of Course Government Policies Don't "Adapt Fast Enough"

Comment:Visions, a mostly European project of Shell Oil in which they try to generate conversation about various energy-related policy questions, occasionally asks me for input. They did again recently...

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Stop force-feeding Guantanamo hunger-strikers

On Monday, federal judge Gladys Kessler ruled that she cannot stop the force-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners at Guantanamo Bay because her court does not have jurisdiction to change policy at the...

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America's Racist God

As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this...

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Falling Into Radical Islam

I spent quite a few hours on the radio last week talking about the Rolling Stone magazine cover glorifying the surviving Boston Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. I talked a lot about the language on the...

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In Memory of Cliff Kaminsky

Today would be my younger brother, Cliff’s, 44th birthday. There is nothing more sad in my life than the knowledge that my children and my brother will never meet. He would have been a great uncle, as...

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Economic Malpractice and Political Slander

It’s difficult to listen to a Barack Obama speech when it would be easier, faster, and less painful to write one. So it was with as much a sense of impending boredom and déjà pivot as concern about...

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Colorado Recalls Make History

In nearly 140 years of Colorado history, it’s never happened before. This year it is happening twice: Two legislators, both Democratic members of the Colorado State Senate, will face recall elections...

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Libertarians Strike Back in CO Recall Elections

As I mentioned yesterday, the Libertarian Party of Colorado sued the State of Colorado to get more time to petition candidates on to the ballots to replace two state senators who are facing recall...

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For Democrats, turnout trumps honesty

In Colorado, the results of Democrats valuing election “turnout” over electoral honesty — or even common sense — are becoming clear. Among the many mindless laws passed on party-line votes during...

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Libertarian Populism Is an Oxymoron

When it comes to politics, one must (unless you are a reprobate sex fiend like Democrats Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, and Bob Filner) adhere to Oscar Wilde’s maxim that the only thing worse than...

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Colorado Emerging Issues Forum, Saturday, 9/7/13

If you’re in or near Denver, I hope you’ll consider attending the Heartland Institute’s Colorado Emerging Issues Forum on Saturday, September 7th. Great speakers, outside-the-box thinking, and a...

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Apply for the Leadership Program of the Rockies

Participating in the Leadership Program of the Rockies (LPR) is, without exaggeration, one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I’m sorry I didn’t post this earlier, but there are still a couple of...

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Obama’s Loose Lips

“First of all, I didn’t set a red line.” — President Barack Obama, September 4, 2013 Even my five-year-old son doesn’t make as many destructive verbal gaffes as President Obama does (though he does lie...

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