Hang the evil oil speculators, if anyone can find them. Apr 18, 2012 WSJ On Tuesday President Barack Obama gave a speech about . . . nothing. At 11:27 a.m. in the Rose Garden, Mr. Obama did announce a crackdown on speculators in the oil markets. And he did call for more investigations, more regulation [...]

Apr 18, 2012 WSJ By STEPHEN MOORE While the Senate voted this week on the Buffett Rule millionaire tax hike, House Republicans were pushing for a 20% business tax cut. The GOP House leadership plan cuts tax rates for every business with fewer than 500 employees. This means the highest personal income tax rate applied [...]

Apr 18, 2012 Election 2012: President Obama’s campaign has come out swinging against Mitt Romney with a list of negatives about the presumptive GOP nod. But they pale next to the incumbent’s. The Obama-Biden campaign has released via its website the “5 Things You Need To Know About Mitt Romney.” It thinks they will scare [...]

Apr 18, 2012 Green Energy: Another day and another set of layoffs at a Department of Energy-backed solar company and an electric-car maker funded with stimulus dollars. Yet the President wants to double down on green energy. First Solar, a solar energy company that received a $1.46 billion loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, [...]

Apr 18, 2012 Budget: Senate Democrats this week decided that, after digging the nation $5 trillion deeper in debt, producing a budget plan to get us out would be just too darn hard. It’s time for new leadership. ‘This is the wrong time to vote in the committee,” Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said this [...]

House GOP targets ‘untouchable’ mandatory spending By Emily Miller The Washington Times Wednesday, April 18, 2012 America’s $15.7 trillion national debt continues to grow at an alarming rate. Though most economists agree we’re on an unsustainable path, the president and his allies in the Democratic Senate have done nothing about it. They hope to return [...]

Playing the race card to silence a free-market policy voice. Apr 17, 2012 WSJ Is it suddenly disreputable to advocate free-market policies? That’s the question raised by a remarkable political assault on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which promotes reform in the 50 states. Led by former White House aide Van Jones, various left-wing [...]

The millionaire tax failed to get the 60 Senate votes necessary and went down 51 to 45. But Democrats vow to keep trying. Apr 17, 2012 WSJ By STEPHEN MOORE So the Buffett tax ruse is finally dead. The millionaire tax—named for financier Warren Buffett and designed to ensure that high earners pay at least [...]

Apr 17, 2012 The White House threatened Tuesday to veto an effort by House Republicans to cut taxes for millions of smaller businesses, calling it an unproductive giveaway to many of the country’s most profitable companies. The warning was issued two days before the GOP-run House is expected to approve the legislation, which Republicans say [...]

By Terence Jeffrey (Archive) · Wednesday, April 18, 2012 President Barack Obama last week visited Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. — a small city of 15 golf courses — so he could preach to some of his humble campaign contributors his vision of American frugality. “So if all of you are willing to invest in the [...]