A carbon tax on U.S. airline passengers. Oct 27, 2011 WSJ Who says bipartisanship is kaput in Washington, D.C.? Last week the House passed a bill that would bar U.S. airlines from complying with a European Union directive that requires all airliners flying to Europe to buy carbon-emissions permits. Sponsored by Transportation Chairman John Mica [...]

As the world retreats from cap and trade, Sacramento signs on. Oct 31, 2011 WSJ It may be time for California to formally apply for membership in the European Union. Its taxing, borrowing and regulatory policies are already more in line with the southern tier of Euroland than with other U.S. states, and the Golden [...]

America works best when government creates a stable environment for competition. Oct 31, 2011 WSJ By JIM MCNERNEY America works best when American business and government complement one another: Business plays the vital role in economic expansion and job creation, while government oversees the environment in which business can innovate and compete. This approach fueled [...]

Oct 31, 2011 Star Parker Last week, one of the Republican Party’s young stars, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc), spoke at the Heritage Foundation and gave forth his vision of America and what we need to do today to restore our vitality. Listening to Ryan, I’m reminded of the late, great Congressman Jack Kemp, for whom [...]

Oct 31, 2011 Lurita Doan It’s becoming clear: Obama thinks American voters are stupid.  Anyone believing Obama’s current campaign promises is either gullible or amnesia-prone.   Increasingly, his campaign speeches indicate a rather pitiful and cynical hope that Americans will not remember his earlier promises nor will they recall past decisions by the Obama Administration that [...]

Oct 31, 2011 Marita Noon Nevada has the highest unemployment rate in the country and is one of the worst in foreclosures. “In my district,” Nevada Assemblyman Hansen reports, “one in seventeen houses is in foreclosure. One in eight is vacant. The people are economically desperate. Meanwhile we have an industry that would love to [...]

By Edwin J. Feulner (Archive) · Monday, October 31, 2011 “I’d prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him and keep him as long as I could.” That’s John McCain in 1999, referring to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. The joke was that Greenspan was so good at his job [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Monday, October 31, 2011 The argument is being made in some quarters that, however unsuccessful Barack Obama’s domestic policies have been, his record in foreign policy has been successful. But when you examine the claims of success, they seem a bit peculiar. Take the widely read New York Times columnist [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, October 31, 2011 I must confess that I’ve been getting a kick out of Democrats trying to align themselves with the Occupy Wall Street mob. If ever a political stratagem was destined to blow up in their face, this is it. For folks who like to brag about their [...]

By George Will (Archive) · Sunday, October 30, 2011 WASHINGTON — The Republican presidential dynamic — various candidates rise and recede; Mitt Romney remains at about 25 percent support — is peculiar because conservatives correctly believe it is important to defeat Barack Obama but unimportant that Romney be president. This is not cognitive dissonance. Obama, [...]