Gigantic government’s complexity and opacity provide innumerable opportunities for opportunists to act unconstrained by clear law or effective supervision.
Today’s examp...
The GOP presidential primary campaign in Indiana was winding down. Donald Trump was significantly ahead in the polls and had nothing much to worry about.
But that did n...
In yet another example of government waste, bureaucratic bloat and excessive regulation, Americans complete more than 23,000 forms for 68 federal agencies each year, acc...
If pandering to narrow interests could be transferred into energy, the Pennsylvania Senate majority would be a powerhouse.
After Gov. Tom Wolf recently and correctly vet...
Have you seen a sex offender? What did he or she look like? A caller to a public radio show last week thought he knew. “Daniel” was angry that Target, the national depar...
Increased economic growth — domestically, that’s the single biggest policy issue in this year’s presidential campaigns, the one on which virtually everything else depend...
Free speech is crucial to our democracy. And after explicitly backing candidates or initiatives, essential to free speech is financial privacy. It’s good to know, for ex...
As in any U.S. national election without an incumbent president, this race’s candidates are painting an ugly picture: The country is “going to hell,” bluntly asserts the...
Last week, Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for illegally structuring cash withdrawals to av...
The tiger is an awesome beast.
I don’t use “awesome” here in the modern, informal sense that we apply casually to anything that we think is extremely good, including TV ...
