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

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...

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...

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

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'...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Anthony Foxx is scheduled to appear before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today, to answer questions about his nomination to be the next Transportation Secretary. Foxx, the mayor of Charlotte, N.C., is a mildly controversial pick because he has no professional...

Examiner Editorial

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

On Monday, Montgomery County's Board of Elections received credible evidence of voting anomalies, but Chairwoman Mary Ann Keeffe insisted that investigating them was not the board's job. One complaint involved problems with the county's Diebold touch-screen voting machines. In 2011,...

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...

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

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...