Is ‘Redskins’ Offensive? – OpEd
Controversy over the nickname of the NFL’s Washington Redskins has been swirling for nearly a year. Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it had withdrawn...
View ArticleGovernmental ‘Reform’ Is An Oxymoron – OpEd
Pick your favorite scandal du jour: Four employees of the Export-Import Bank recently were forced out of their jobs following allegations that they had solicited or accepted bribes from beneficiaries...
View Article‘Net Neutrality’ Is An Oxymoron When Government Logs On – OpEd
President Obama released a video on Monday, November 10, asking the Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules that would keep the Internet what it always has been—“free and open.” The buzzword...
View ArticleHow Taxpayer Subsidies For Students Drive Up College Tuition – OpEd
Quickly on the heels of the release “Love Gov”—the Independent Institute’s satirical videos series on meddlesome government—a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concludes that federal...
View ArticleSymbolic Gesture On Coal Will Ding California Pension Funds – OpEd
Lawrence McQuillan’s book, “California Dreaming: Lessons on How to Resolve America’s Public Pension Crisis,” documents the unsustainable financial condition of California’s public pension programs,...
View ArticleTax Freedom Day 2016 – OpEd
According to the Tax Foundation, “Tax Freedom Day” this year falls on April 24th – six days after 2015’s personal income tax returns were due (on the 18th if you forgot to file). April 24 marks the day...
View Article9/11’s Legacies: Fewer Civil Liberties And Bigger Banks – OpEd
September 11, 2016, marks the fifteenth anniversary of a calamity that shook America to its core. I remember vividly to this day being riveted by the constant video replays of the two Boeing 767s...
View ArticleNot A ‘New Deal,’ A ‘Fair Deal’ Or A ‘Square Deal,’ But Supposedly A ‘Better...
Towards the end of July, eight months after losing the White House to Donald Trump, leading figures of the Democratic Party launched their crusade to regain control of the U.S. Congress in next year’s...
View ArticleThe Jones Act Must Be Repealed – OpEd
The nearly century-old Jones Act, enacted in 1920 to protect American shippers from foreign competitors, is back in the news. To speed delivery of relief supplies to Puerto Ricans devastated by...
View ArticleFundamental Principles Of Income Tax Reform – OpEd
As 2017 was rushing to its end, the U.S. House and Senate passed different versions of income tax reform legislation, one of the Trump Administration’s top policy priorities. If a reconciled bill...
View ArticleWhy Have Gasoline Prices Risen Lately? – OpEd
If you wonder why prices at the gas pump have been climbing recently and are expected to continue to climb, look no further than the sharp drop in crude oil production in Venezuela, the Saudi Arabia of...
View ArticleMining Regulations Hamper Access To America’s Own Rare Earth Metals And...
China is President Trump’s favorite whipping boy when it comes to blaming other nations for our chronic international trade deficits. Good economists – a category that assuredly does not include the...
View ArticleThe Anachronistic 1979 Oil Export Ban – OpEd
Political pressure is building to repeal the 1979 ban on U.S. exports of crude oil to the rest of the world. I blogged on that issue recently in Inside Sources, which was picked up by Orangeburg, South...
View ArticleThe E15 Mandate Is Poor Environmental Policy – OpEd
Here’s an unpublished Letter to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal: To the Editor: Concerning “Trump Gives Farmers a Jolt of Fuel” (Op-Ed, Oct. 16), it certainly is true that corn farmers and...
View ArticleThe Left’s Opposition To Mining Threatens Its Green Dream – OpEd
Environmental activists who oppose mining minerals in the United States are threatening the same green agenda they claim to embrace. Among those leading the attack is Sen. Elizabeth Warren,...
View ArticleThe Trade War Is Proving A Loser For The US Energy Industry – OpEd
All eyes are on China as the nation takes unprecedented measures in attempt to control the outbreak of the deadly Coronavirus, which has already reached a handful of other countries, including the...
View ArticleDaylight Saving Time: Ditch The Switch And Stop The Irrational Time-Change...
I hate winter, which forces me to commute from home to work and back again in the dark. I can’t do anything about seasonal changes in daylight and darkness, but I hope Congress and state legislators...
View ArticleIf Federal Waste Must Increase, Federal Land Holdings Must Decrease – OpEd
Earlier this month, Lawrence Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council and top Trump administration adviser, floated a proposal for selling COVID-19 U.S. Treasury bonds to “spur investment in...
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What Bezos, Cook, Pinchai And Zuckerberg Should Have Told Congress About...
Wednesday, July 29, witnessed the virtual browbeating (via video conference) of the CEOs of four of America’s top companies, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, by members of the House Judiciary...
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US Manufacturers Seek To Ban Imported Mattresses During Pandemic – OpEd
On March 31, in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, American mattress manufacturers and labor unions, claiming “dumping,” petitioned to impose prohibitive duties on mattress imports from seven...
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