Publications

Even while President Obama seeks additional money from Congress for border security, his administration is giving away billions of taxpayer dollars to clean energy companies that the government likes, even though their success rate is abysmal.

Innovation is transforming health care, or at least it’s trying. Old practices and laws can create a drag on that new innovation.

Free market means opposing crony capitalism rather than defending it.

President Obama claims that income inequality has been growing dramatically. But government statistics show that there has been very little increase, indicating the issue may be more political than real.

The Aereo decision is a victory for property rights and the rule of law, rather than the triumph of entrenched interests over disruptive innovation.

Instead of tax reform Congress seems insistent on blame, negative reinforcement and abdicating responsibility.

Sen. Paul plans to introduce legislation allowing ex-felons to vote in federal elections.  But the Constitution leaves voter eligibility up to the states, not Congress.

There is little, if any, room in the tax code for taxes conceived as a means to influence behavior. However, a conversation about using the tax code as means to control citizens does seem to correctly involve cow waste.

Hopefully, the next step on the right path will be taken with the House Judiciary Committee deciding that the Internet tax moratorium must continue.

The U.S. ban on exporting crude oil and natural gas keeps prices artificially high and opens the door for troublemaking countries with large fossil fuel reserves to wreak foreign policy havoc.