CHAREN: The New York Times covers over-regulation
It may not be exactly the coming of the Messiah, but seeing a front-page story in The New York Times about over-regulation certainly feels...
ELDER: Instead of ‘Infrastructure Investment,’ How About Killing Davis-Bacon?
Is there a difference between President Barack Obama’s “stimulus” and President Donald Trump’s “infrastructure investment”? Despite costing $800 billion, most economists do not believe...
WILLIAMS: Dangers of Government Control
We are a nation of 325 million people. We have a bit of control over the behavior of our 535 elected representatives in Congress,...
HART: Businesses get tax cuts; what they can do for us in return
Lost in the Democrats’ lock-step opposition to any tax cuts for individuals, and especially corporations, is the fact that free-market capitalism is a far...
A SHARP LIFE: Two is the loneliest number
Once my wife and I decided to have a third child we knew we would be outnumbered. We knew this for two reasons. First,...
CHAPMAN: The case for pessimism in the age of Trump
If there is any single trait that defines Americans, it is optimism. We read our history as a journey upward, from the arrival of...
A SHARP LIFE: Travel is a gift for the whole family
Recently our family of six took a small vacation to San Antonio. The trip was a big part of our family’s Christmas as we...
ELDER: Why is Maxine Waters silent on the terrorist drug-dealing probe that Obama shut...
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., once falsely accused President Ronald Reagan's CIA of all but causing urban cocaine dealing in the '80s. She claimed that...
SULLUM: The buck stops over there
After he won what he erroneously described as an Electoral College “landslide,” Donald Trump explained away his failure to attract the support of most...
CHAPMAN: Will tax cuts help Republicans in 2018?
Mitch McConnell thinks the tax bill passed by Congress will put a strong wind into his party’s sails. “If we can’t sell this to...