Another dismal jobs report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) dropped a bomb this morning. Yesterday, there were some positive signals that job growth was increasing compared to recent months. The ADP estimate for August came...
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FreedomWorks launches robust Congressional Scorecard and Key Votes
FreedomWorks has done it again. One of the most well known, hardest working grassroots organizations in Washington has come up with some great tools in the last couple of years. Freedom Connector, a...
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Tax Rates Impact Economic Performance, but other Policies also Matter
Written by Daniel J. Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Posted with permission from Cato @ Liberty. I’m a big fan of fundamental tax reform, in part because I believe in fairness and want...
View ArticleSeven Steps to Restore Prosperity
The good news about our economy is that it hasn’t been struck down by some mysterious act of God. Acts of Government plague our nation – and acts of Government are entirely within our power to...
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Romney scores points against Obama in first debate
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney squared off last night in Denver for the first of three debates before next month’s election — this debate primarily focusing on domestic policy. By most accounts...
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Morning in America, or Mourning in America?
Like a broken record, Obama claims to need four more years to fix the economy because he inherited from George W. Bush the worst economy since the Great Depression. He tells us when he took office he...
View ArticleWhy I voted for Gary Johnson
Over the last few months I’ve read many posts and arguments about why libertarians should vote for Mitt Romney. None of them really spoke to the core libertarian beliefs of libertarians, which is the...
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Obama’s Dismal Record on Jobs, Captured in a Single Chart and Explained with...
Written by Daniel J. Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Posted with permission from Cato @ Liberty.Economists may not agree on much, but we all agree that economic output is a function of...
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United Liberty Podcast: Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA)
“Congress should be cutting spending, reducing the regulatory burdens that are crushing the economy — freedom works, and it is time we put it back to work.” — Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA)Just a couple of...
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Congress must reform high-skilled worker visa system
The renewed debate over immigration reform has led to some very strong opinions, but one particular issue that has been lost in the mix is the need for more high-skilled workers in the United...
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Is The American Dream Dead?
The American Dream—the idea that any American has the ability to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, work hard, make good decisions, and lift themselves from even abject poverty to extreme wealth—is...
View ArticleInvestigative Reporters Tackle the Small Business Administration
Written by Tad DeHaven, a budget analyst at the Cato Institute. Posted with permission from Cato @ Liberty.When it comes to reporting on the Small Business Administration, it seems to me that most...
View ArticleVictims or Visionaries?: Right Needs to Seize Upon Big Issues
Over at R Street, Andrew Moylan makes a fascinating comment regarding President Obama’s recent speech on climate change and his plan to reduce carbon emissions. To wit: doesn’t matter much what your...
View ArticleThe Decline of American Exceptionalism is Not Inevitable
In one of the most iconic and powerful political ads in America history, Americans were reminded that, under the leadership of Ronald Wilson Reagan, it was once again “Morning in America”. Having...
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Obama talks income inequality, blames the GOP
What used to be a value even to the Democratic Party has now become a forgotten lesson: it’s impossible to control the economy by decree.According to President Barack Obama, he is perfectly capable to,...
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Business groups tell EPA to leave fracking regulation to the states
Radical environmentalists are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to heavily regulate or ban hydraulic fracturing (also known as “fracking”), the process employed to extract shale oil and...
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Brutal new poll for Obama, especially on the details
Quinnipiac University has released its latest poll of President Obama’s approval rating and opinions on various political issues of the day, and the results aren’t pretty:American voters disapprove 54...
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Are the NSA data collection programs hurting the economy?
What happens when businesses aren’t able to provide the service that customers were promised? That’s right: customers get mad.The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a report indicating...
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72% of Americans See Big Government as the Greatest Threat
Since Barack Obama took office in 2009, more Americans say that big government is a much greater threat to the country than big business. The latest Gallup shows that the number of Americans who...
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State of the Union Promises Millennials the Short End of the Stick
Contained within last night’s speech were many examples of how young people lose out in the big-government status quo.It’s easy to lampoon the State of the Union address. A speech full of pomp and...
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