There has been much debate recently over the merits of extending unemployment benefits — last week, the Senate reached cloture on a bill to do so for three months, and ...

Proponents of increasing the minimum wage hold two contradictory views on the subject. First, they say that increasing the minimum wage will increase the size of the economy. President Obama ...

In his trip to South Africa last week, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas told reporters something interesting: He opposes efforts to boycott Israel. “No, we do not support the boycott ...

The White House is pushing a recently published CMS report that purports to show a new benefit of Obamacare — it’s closing the dreaded Medicare “donut hole.” A senior administration official quoted in ...

Pat, it should be noted that the FOMC did still include their pithy assessment of fiscal policy, “Fiscal policy is restraining growth,” a line the committee has repeated in every ...

If you want to see groupthink at its finest, go ahead and Google “Paul Krugman was right.” Here are some of the headlines:  Business Insider: “The Economic Argument Is Over — Paul ...

Apparently, the European Union didn’t have enough on its, ahem, plate, so it decided to further regulate what you can pour on yours. As anyone who has ever been to a ...

Quin Hillyer, a senior editor at The American Spectator, a fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom, and a contributor to and great friend of National Review, is running for Congress in Alabama.  From his announcement: I ...