By John Stossel (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Have you noticed how often government takes sides against the little guy? Street vending has been a path out of poverty for Americans. And like other such paths (say, driving a taxi), this one is increasingly difficult to navigate. Why? Because entrenched interests don’t like competition. [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Earlier this month, the left-wing magazine The Nation highlighted Joe Therrien as a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement. A New York City public-school drama teacher, Therrien was frustrated with the shortcomings of the school system. So he quit his job and “set off to [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 It used to be common for people to urge us to learn “the lessons of history.” But history gets much less attention these days and, if there are any lessons that we are offered, they are more likely to be the lessons from current polls or [...]

By Walter E. Williams (Archive) · Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Benefiting from a hint from an article titled “Is Harry Potter Making You Poorer?”, written by my colleague Dr. John Goodman, president of the Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, I’ve come up with an explanation and a way to end income inequality in America, [...]

November 30, 2011 By Stuart Schwartz He is the king of flip-flops, the emperor of hypocrisy, the czar of opinions a mile wide and an inch deep.  Mitt Romney?  Not by a long shot — because when it comes to core values, conservative or otherwise, Romney tips the top of the belief-o-meter compared with Newt [...]

November 30, 2011 Ethel C. Fenig While so called investigative reporters and other self righteous gotcha media types are busy investigating alleged old flames and other women from Bill Clinton’s (D) er…Herman Cain’s (R) past and harassing Sarah Palin (R) by peering in her window and illegally accessing her e mail, bits and pieces of [...]

November 30, 2011 Rick Moran This one’s a doozy. Via Nile Gardner at Heritage blog: In a press conference this evening, the president referred in stumbling fashion to the “English Embassy” in Iran instead of the British Embassy. One can only imagine the kind of howls of derision that would greet any presidential contender if [...]

November 30, 2011 By James M. Arlandson Democrats advocate Game Show Government.  “Vote for us, and we’ll give away cash and prizes.  We’ll send you a check!”  On the other side, certain hardcore Republicans say, “Vote for us, and we’ll cut your cash and prizes to the bone!  No more checks for you!” In a [...]

Posted 11/29/2011 07:00 PM ET  Rules: If you thought Rep. Barney Frank was bad, his likely replacement is worse. Rep. Maxine Waters is Congress’ most anti-bank member — unless she owns stock in one, that is. Waters is in line to take over from Frank on the powerful Financial Services Committee when he retires next [...]

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