Congressional advocates of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that narrowly passed the House by a vote of 219-212 on June 26 employed bribery to build support for this legislation when they co-opted several corporations by giving them free carbon dioxide emission…
Communist Godfather Vladimir Lenin is alleged to have famously said, “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Nowhere is that observation more relevant than in the sorry spectacle taking place in Congress as corporations,…
The Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress may soon gain another valuable ally in their effort to radically expand government. On March 26, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) introduced legislation that ends the restrictions on the ability of legal services organizations,…
The long-term decline in newspaper circulation presents the conservative movement with an excellent opportunity to increase its influence with the media. Falling readership and tighter budgets are forcing newspapers to dedicate fewer staff to investigative reporting. As a result, they…
Wal-Mart’s support for the anti-free market agenda of the environmental movement is not silencing its liberal critics and may be undermining the company’s financial future. Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott began pushing a so-called sustainability campaign in October 2005 as…
President Bush’s bold attempt to reform the financially strapped Social Security program through a system of private retirement accounts has sadly ended with a whimper and not a bang. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) recently told the U.S….
Wachovia Corporation’s ridiculous apology for its alleged ties to slavery has backfired. Chicago City Council aldermen are vowing to strip from Wachovia a $9.4 million loan to build affordable housing units as punishment for the bank’s supposed failure to disclose…
Organized labor claims that its campaign to pressure corporations to stop supporting President Bush’s Social Security plan is necessary to protect retirees from corporate greed. This is hypocrisy of the worst sort. Given their sordid history of raiding union pensions…
As if it doesn’t have more important things to do, the New York City Council is considering legislation that advances the ridiculous agenda of the slave reparations movement. The measure, sponsored by Councilman Charles Barron, would require that companies doing…