Anticarbon regulations and the corporate rent-seekers who love them. Dec 23, 2010 WSJ Strange things happen at the nexus of progressive ideology and private profits. Like Peter Orszag decamping the White House budget office for Citigroup, a bank that wouldn’t exist without taxpayer crutches. Then there are the utility CEOs cheering on the Obama Administration’s [...]

A 2008 OECD study of leading economies found that ‘taxation is most progressively distributed in the United States.’ More so than Sweden or France. Dec 23, 2010 WSJ By ALAN REYNOLDS When President Obama announced a two-year stay of execution for taxpayers on Dec. 7, he made it clear that he intends to spend those [...]

Even an opinion writer can see the bright side. Dec 23,2010 WSJ By DANIEL HENNINGER This week we are offering the gift of political optimism, which of course only comes in a limited edition. Political optimism is the most difficult gift to find. Hanging around politics long enough can turn anyone into the Grinch who [...]

Ignorance about terrorism–negligent and willful. Dec 22, 2010 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO If Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s remark that the government is “working . . . 364 days a year to keep the American people safe” made you nervous, you can relax. In another interview in the same ABC News series, President Obama’s “top aide on [...]

by Tom Tancredo December 18, 2010 http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240945  Another Border Patrol agent on the Arizona border was shot and killed by Mexican drug smugglers last Tuesday. Of the eight attackers, four are in custody and a fifth is under surveillance by Border Patrol Blackhawk helicopters as he tries to make his way back to the Mexican [...]

Dec 23, 2010 Dick Morris and Eileen McGann With the new Republican power in Washington, it is doubly important to keep a close eye on the doings of GOP senators and congressmen to spot those who are straying from orthodoxy, seduced by power and the insider clubiness that characterizes Washington. In the lame-duck session, we [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Thursday, December 23, 2010 Suppose what some call the “Christmas story” is true — all of it, from the angels, to the shepherds, to the virgin birth, to God taking on human flesh. By this, I don’t mean to suggest it is true only for those who believe it to [...]

By Victor Davis Hanson (Archive) · Thursday, December 23, 2010 As the year in politics closed, Congress and President Obama were arguing over maintaining the Bush-era income tax rates. Conservatives insisted that the top 5 percent of households already accounted for nearly 60 percent of the aggregate tax revenue and that it was suicidal to [...]

By Larry Elder (Archive) · Thursday, December 23, 2010 For the past 50 years, the Democrats — and many Republicans who should know better — have been wrong about virtually every major domestic policy issue. Let’s review some of them: Taxes. The bipartisan extension of the Bush tax cuts represents the latest triumph over the [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Thursday, December 23, 2010 For those of us who are demographic buffs, Christmas came four days early when Census Bureau Director Robert Groves announced yesterday the first results of the 2010 Census and the reapportionment of House seats (and therefore electoral votes) among the states. The resident population of the [...]