News List

  • A Visit to Boomtown
    Oct 26, 2012  - What will pull our economy into recovery? Contrary to the Obama administration’s dreamy pronouncements, it’s not windmills, solar panels, or other forms of “clean energy.” These heavily subsidized industries may eventually produce abundant energy, but that day is far in the future. For now, the 5 mi... More
  • Kickstarting the economy through business tax reform
    Oct 12, 2012  - Tinkering with tax rates on business is not enough; we need to replace the entire business tax code with a new system that dramatically boosts economic growth. My proposal for a business tax overhaul appears in the Washington Post today. More
  • Obama Administration "Resets" Relations with Mexico
    Oct 2, 2012  - Univision, the Spanish-language TV network, is reporting that a massacre by a Mexican drug cartel involved U.S. weapons trafficked to Mexico through the Obama administration’s Fast and Furious gun-walking operation. Meanwhile, here’s a short analysis by the Heritage Foundation of my suggestion in Na... More
  • Lead from the Front with a New Economic Alliance
    Sep 28, 2012  - U.S. embassies are being torched, U.S. flags are burning, and American diplomats are being murdered in countries that are supposedly our allies. In National Review Online today, I outline an alternative to Obama’s policy of “leading from behind.” Read it here. More
  • Toward a New American Alliance
    Sep 21, 2012  - America has been slow to react as the international order is upended by revolutions in the Middle East and upheavals elsewhere in the world. As we watch passively, the world is being remade to our detriment. It’s time to re-establish America’s global leadership – not by promoting democracy in far-of... More
  • Unions work to create police state
    Aug 29, 2012  - Reports of union thuggery in California. (Public pension reform, anyone?) The police union is making the police look bad. Where is the mainstream media? from the Orange County Register printed August 29, 2012 Police union negotiator targeted city councilmen Officials from Costa Mesa, Irvine, Fullert... More
  • Eco-extremists Strike Again
    Aug 23, 2012  - Along with California congressmen Jeff Denham and Kevin McCarthy, I sent a letter today to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack seeking the immediate re-opening of the Central Valley Meat Company meat-processing plant in Hanford, California. The Department of Agriculture recently suspended all oper... More
  • “Somewhere between Critical and Too Late to Deal with It”
    Aug 22, 2012  - Following the bankruptcies of Stockton, San Bernardino, and Mammoth Lakes earlier this year, Moody’s says it expects more California municipalities to go insolvent. The credit rating agency notes that more than 10 percent of the state’s cities have declared fiscal crises. I’m not sure why so many po... More
  • Food Shortages in America, Part II
    Aug 1, 2012  - Readers of my blog may remember my warning last year about possible food shortages. Well, CNN is reporting that the worst drought in more than fifty years has pushed up U.S. corn prices 50 percent in the last six weeks, potentially leading to a spike in food prices across the board. While the gover... More
  • The Amazing Google Car vs. Scandal-Plagued High-Speed Rail
    Jul 27, 2012  - I recently took a ride in Google’s experimental driverless car. An engineer drove us to a certain spot, then took his hands off the wheel, his feet off the pedals, and flipped a switch. From there, the car drove along a pre-programmed route completely on its own based on radar, GPS, and other data. ... More