Will FDA Keep Apples Away?
The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is keeping busy overhauling the nation’s food-safety system, a legacy of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act, which tasked the FDA to prevent...
View ArticleScandals Keep Eroding Our Faith in Benevolent Government
David Boaz George Will, Michael Gerson, and our own Gene Healy are among the columnists who reminded us – in the wake of the IRS and AP snooping scandals – of President Obama’s stirring words just two...
View ArticleKeep laws simple, few, and moral to reduce crime and grow the economy. (Video)
If society criminalizes large parts of the economy, of human activity, it obviously creates criminals. But if laws are straightforward and widely recognized by a society as being grounded common sense,...
View ArticleCommittee Issues Excuse to Keep Doing Wrong Thing
Neal McCluskey Today, the Democratic staff of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee released a report which seems mainly to be an excuse to keep doing the wrong things. The basic tenets of the report...
View ArticleDebt Levels Are Skyrocketing To Extremely Dangerous Levels – How Long Can...
Never before has the world faced such a serious debt crisis. Yes, in the past there have certainly been nations that have gotten into trouble with debt, but we have never had a situation where...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Ends Teacher Tenure, Teachers Will Now Have to Be Good at...
God bless the Tar Heel state. First Michael Jordan and now this. Absolutely great news. That teachers get lifetime tenure, jobs for life, anywhere, is absolutely criminal. I’m not being over the top....
View ArticleGood News! U.S. Can Keep Sending $147m (per annum) to Brazilian Cotton...
Sallie James Phew. That was close. Earlier this month, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said that without a new farm bill to replace the 2008 farm bill, the USDA would not have the authority or the...
View ArticleDOJ Lawsuit Would Keep Blacks in Failing Schools
Jason Bedrick In the name of civil rights, the Department of Justice is trying to prevent black families from exercising school choice. On the heels of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s ridiculous...
View Article“Vanishing” Job-Bias Lawsuits Keep On Not Really Vanishing
Walter Olson Remember all the hand-wringing about how the Supreme Court in Wal-Mart v. Dukes had choked off the chance for lawyers to file company-wide class actions claiming workplace discrimination?...
View ArticleObama says that a Congressional “NO” vote on war with Syria won’t keep him...
FYI Mr. President, Syria is also not on the Gulf Coast. We are often hard on the president, mainly because he has taken crony capitalism to whole new levels. But his general leadership style is also...
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