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...
View ArticleIt'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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHickenlooper 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...
View ArticleReal 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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleBlack 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...
View ArticleOf 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...
View ArticleStop 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...
View ArticleAmerica'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...
View ArticleFalling 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...
View ArticleIn 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...
View ArticleEconomic 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...
View ArticleColorado 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...
View ArticleLibertarians 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...
View ArticleFor 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...
View ArticleLibertarian 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...
View ArticleColorado 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...
View ArticleApply 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...
View ArticleObama’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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