Ralph Nader Cheering the Tea Party?
Believe it. In an op-ed for BusinessWeek, the scourge of concentrated wealth and power sees a lot to love in the new, Tea Party-infused legislators walking around Capitol Hill. Specifically, Nader...
View ArticleFeisty Start to 2012 Race: Newt Picks Fight with Wall Street Journal
Newt versus The Wall Street Journal editorial board – the unofficial 2012 Republican campaign is off to a very lively start. On January 22, the Journal ran a commentary entitled “Amber Waves of...
View ArticleFamous Family Farmer Urges Cuts to Ag Subsidies
Along with his status as America’s most famous military historian and classicist, Victor Davis Hanson is also the operator of a family farm in California’s San Joaquin Valley. In a recent article for...
View ArticleGingrich’s “Voodoo Economics” Moment?
During the 1980 presidential campaign, Republican candidate George H. W. Bush decried Ronald Reagan’s supply-side tax cuts as “voodoo economics” because the policy promised to lower tax rates and...
View ArticleDon’t Sell Pawlenty Short
It is well known throughout the halls of CFIF that one challenges our own Troy Senik at one’s own risk. That principle carries additional weight on a week in which George Will, the dean of...
View ArticleRomney Supports Ethanol Subsidies
Or, to use Romney’s phrasing, “I support the subsidy of ethanol.” Forget the passive voice; Mitt Romney is actively standing on his principles! Two weeks ago, the former Massachusetts governor has...
View ArticleThe AP Condemns Government Ethanol Policy
You could almost hear environmentalists’ jaws hit the floor this morning when they opened their newspapers and took to their phones and computers for their morning news. In a fierce 4,150-word exposé,...
View ArticleBrace Yourself: Feds Take Sensible Step on Energy Policy
It’s rare that we get anything other than green inanity in federal energy policy these days, which is why this news is so welcome. From Ben German at The Hill: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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