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  • Walter Williams: We are the idiots for listening to eco-alarmism

    Walter Williams

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" (9/5/2012), wrote that her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," led to a world ban on DDT use. The DDT ban was...

  • John Stossel: Sublet my people go

    John Stossel

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    My kids moved out! I have two empty rooms in my apartment. Maybe I can rent them? A tourist visiting New York City could have a different experience, and save hotel money. I'd make money. Wouldn't it be great? No, says the government of my state. New York recently passed a law making it very...

  • System D: Economic boats floating beneath the surface

    Austin Bay

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    In 2011, China had a gross domestic product of $7.3 trillion dollars, second only to America's $15 trillion GDP output -- at least according to official data. In 2011, System D had a GDP of $10 trillion, though that imposing figure is utterly unofficial, by definition. System D doesn't...

  • Jerry Garcia's nameless grace

    Steve Chapman

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    I was sitting in a classroom in McCosh Hall at Princeton University one spring day in the late 1970s, when I learned something that helped me understand the artistic genius of Jerry Garcia. No music played in that room that day -- only the amiable voice of professor Henry Miller. I don't...

  • Michelle Malkin: Obama puts a crony in charge of your medical records

    Michelle Malkin

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Who is Judy Faulkner? Chances are, you don't know her -- but her politically connected, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company may very well know you. Top Obama donor and billionaire Faulkner is founder and CEO of Epic Systems, which will soon store almost half of all Americans'...

  • Diana Furchtgott-Roth: House panel approves needed food stamp reforms

    Diana Furchtgott-Roth

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    With the House Agriculture Committee voting to trim the $80 billion food stamp program by $3 billion a year, or 2.5 percent, the New York Times is predictably outraged. "If anything, Washington should be allocating more money to address tremendous unmet needs," the paper's Tuesday editorial...

  • Obama's latest NLRB gambit will fail

    Sean Higgins

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are set to vote this morning on a full slate of five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board. It will likely OK all five, who will then go into the legislative limbo that is the full Senate. There are plenty of people...

  • Noemie Emery: Light fades to dark as Obama wipes away sweat

    Noemie Emery

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Remember the Lightworker? The "Black Jesus"? "The One"? The one we were waiting for, to stop the rise of the oceans and all of that stuff? How did he come to be standing beside Richard M. Nixon, aka "Tricky Dick," aka "The Shadow," in the great Hall of Blame, charged with massaging the facts...

  • Gene Healy: 'Impeachment' is not a four-letter word

    Gene Healy

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    You may be appalled about IRS inquisitions for Tea Party groups and dragnet subpoenas for investigative reporters, but what's really outrageous, according to some commentators, is that a couple of Republicans recently dared to use the "I-word" -- "impeachment."