Editorials: Budgets and Taxes

Sequester Hysterics

Peter Ferrara
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February 22, 2013
President Obama told America the morning of February 19 that if the sequester goes through on March 1:

Good Riddance to the Buckley Rule

Benjamin Domenech
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February 19, 2013
The problem with the Buckley Rule is that it requires you to evaluate two attributes – ideology and electability – when at least one and occasionally both are relative measur

President Obama’s State Of Disunion: Half of America Is In a Trance

Peter Ferrara
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February 18, 2013
President Reagan famously said “Government is not the answer to the problem. Government IS the problem.”

Obama and the Pirates

Peter Ferrara
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February 17, 2013
Everything in this column will be established by logical proof, as in geometry. There will be no name calling, or mere assertion.

Heartland Institute Experts React to State of the Union Address

Jim Lakely
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February 13, 2013
Here is the reaction of many Heartland Institute staffers, scholars, fellows, and policy advisors to President Obama's first second-term State of the Union address.   

State of the Union: Will Congress Deliver?

David L. Applegate
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February 13, 2013
The State of the Union address long ago devolved into political theater, so it is no surprise that both President Obama and members of Congress surrounded themselves with sympathetic guests, among

Did 'We' Decide to Build Railroads?

Clifford Thies
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February 11, 2013
President Obama said, in his second inaugural address, “Together we determined that a modern economy requires railroads.” Actually, “we” determined that “a modern economy” requires canals, not rail

The Sequester and the New Washington Reality

Benjamin Domenech
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February 10, 2013
President Obama insists&

The Worst Five Years Since the Great Depression

Peter Ferrara
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February 09, 2013
In February, 2009, I wrote for the Wall Street Journal an article entitled Reaganomics versus Obamanomics.

Enough of This Glumness: There is Light at the End of the Obama Tunnel

Peter Ferrara
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February 04, 2013
Conservatives are still glum about the election, and the upper hand President Obama seems to have over Republicans.