In January 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama essentially pledged to shut down the American energy market with new regulations when he said, “If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.” Two years later his destructive rhetoric continued to flow through the administration’s hallways as federal officials threatened to […]
During a recent interview with Diane Sawyer, Hillary Clinton claimed that Bill and her were “dead broke” when they left the White House. And then on Sunday, Hillary told the Guardian that they are not “truly well off” despite having earned about a hundred million dollars since leaving the White House and owning a couple of luxury homes. […]
Since its inception, Dr. Dan’s Freedom Forum has been an advocate for the Free Market as a basis for economic growth and upward personal mobility. Individual freedom, the absence of coercion, is derived from combining the ability to choose one’s future course of action with accepting personal responsibility for the outcome of one’s decisions. Competition […]
When President Obama and the progressives in Washington rammed Obamacare down our throats it was based on the promise (lie) that it would “fix” the problems with the American health-care system. By now it should be obvious to everyone that the Affordable Care Act was nothing more than a government power grab designed to give […]
In reporting on the Navy’s reported new acquisition of helicopters for the president to be delivered in 2020, The Washington Post opens: The last time the Pentagon tried to upgrade the president’s coolest ride — the fleet of helicopters that drop him at his doorstep on the South Lawn of the White House — it didn’t go […]
By now you have heard the story of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release from Taliban captivity. This should be a feel good story, but layers keep unraveling. Nevermind the fact that President Obama has now seemingly changed US foreign policy to include negotiation with terrorists, but word is beginning to leak that Bergdahl himself isn’t just […]
In an op-ed about the Obama administration’s pending regulation of greenhouse gases from coal-fired electricity plants, Paul Krugman recently declared in his New York Times column that: the international community will join together to curtail greenhouse gases if only the U.S. would do so. the regulatory costs of “saving the planet would be remarkably cheap.” solar energy will make […]
Former President George H.W. Bush 41 once called Ronald Reagan’s ‘supply-side economics’ ‘voo-doo economics’ when he was running against Mr. Reagan for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination. And then after 8 years as Vice President to President Reagan, President Bush actually took the necessary steps to implement the first critical spending cut part of those […]
In a recent segment of her Emmy-Award winning television show, Rachel Maddow, an MSNBC host with a doctorate in political science from Oxford University, claimed that: State government budget deficits in Kansas, North Carolina, and New Jersey are “huge,” because their Republican governors have cut tax rates. Cutting tax rates invariably leads to lower tax revenues. The […]
If food were free, would we all be eating steak? Certainly not in the past or today’s America, and likely not in the future. As alluring as the pipe dream of “utopia” may be, the human brain is simply not wired to accept passive compliance with mediocrity. Hypothetically, if all beef on earth were […]
