Editorials

Americans Fighting Their Own Government For Economic Survival

Marita Noon
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May 15, 2013
No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day.

Slow the Presses!

Wendell Cox
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May 15, 2013
It has been a difficult time for newspapers.

Reaching 400 ppm of CO2 Is No Milestone

Edmund Contoski
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May 14, 2013
[The following is a letter to the editor I submitted the other day to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. They will certainly not publish it, so I publish it here.

How Ridiculous is Net Neutrality? Let the Left’s ‘Consumer’ Groups Demonstrate

Seton Motley
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May 13, 2013
There are Leftist groups that claim the mantle of protecting the “consumer interest.”  Asserting they exist to protect consumers from the abusive, evil acts of corporate America.  In most

IRS Tea Party Scandal Shows Government Should Be Kept Away From Our Data

Seton Motley
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May 13, 2013
Late last week we learned that the Barack Obama Administration’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was subjecting conservative non-profit organizations to ridiculous levels of

How to Tell if College Presidents Are Overpaid

Richard Vedder
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May 13, 2013
The Chronicle of Higher Education tells us the median salary of public university presidents rose 4.

The Taxman Cometh (for Tea Partiers)

Ross Kaminsky
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May 13, 2013
On Friday, senior IRS official Lois Lerner offered an apology of sorts after nonprofit organizations that were applying for tax-exempt status were targeted for IRS audit if the groups’ names includ

A Climate Cycle Delivered Our Cold Spring

Dennis Avery
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May 12, 2013
Lots of us are commenting on the U.S. having the second coldest spring in the official thermometer record (starting ca. 1860) and the coldest since 1975.

Wireless Competition: What’s the Data Say?

Scott Cleland
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May 11, 2013
The CTIA just released its semi-annual statistics on the wireless industry’s performance, and its bad news for all those supposed data-driven, pro-regulation proponents who are in search of evidenc

Washington’s Preschool Push Ignores the Real Problem

Joy Pullmann
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May 10, 2013
In 1965, almost no parents put their three-year-olds in nursery school.