‘Free Enterprise Zone’ Archives
Spying and Stealing by Communist China
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I've told you some facts about the unfairness of our trade with China, how China violates the rules, and engages in spying and cheating and cheating. Let me give you an example of how this works. DuPont had built a $17 billion-a-year industry selling a product called "Titanium white," which makes dozens of commonplace [...]
Free Trade with China is a Racket
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The whole idea of free trade with China is a colossal racket. We play by the rules, and China cheats us coming and going. China steals our patents and manufacturing secrets, and violates the rules of the World Trade Organization to which they agreed when they joined. Communist China's strategy is to spy and steal in order to [...]
Playing God with “Endangered Species”
BY ALAN CARUBA According to Wikipedia, “A typical species becomes extinct within 10 million years of its first appearance although some species, called living fossils survive virtually unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. Most extinctions have occurred naturally, prior to Homo sapiens walking on Earth: it is estimated that 99.9% of [...]
Carter to Obama: Same Old Story on Energy Policy
JARRETT SKORUP, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES As spring bloomed, the president addressed the nation on energy. The president told us, “Without our planning for the future, it will get worse … The oil and natural gas that we rely on for 75 percent of our energy is simply running out.” Unless profound changes are made in the next [...]
Obama’s Crucifiction of “Big Oil”
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION If it ever was a secret, it’s not a secret any longer: The Obama Administration is on a vindictive campaign to injure America’s oil and gas industry. The proof materialized last week when video of an Environmental Protection Agency official revealed the White House’s vicious attitude toward the very [...]
Gas Prices and Greed
STEVEN HORWITZ, THE FREEMAN When gas prices go up, people complain about the economy. Most of us buy enough gas week to week that a price increase of any notable size really hits us in the wallet. Not surprisingly, rising gas prices are an easy target for those who are frustrated with, or do not understand, market economies. Many people look [...]
How Government Prevents Job Growth
Apple has billions of dollars overseas and is investing in manufacturing infrastructure offshore. Why isn't the company investing that money in manufacturing here? By Dennis Behreandt America has millions of unemployed people. As Fox News pointed out on April 6, the official unemployment rate, currently hovering at a bit over 8 [...]
America’s Budget Crisis in Pictures
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION It’s pretty clear to most Americans that Washington is broken and spending money well beyond the country’s means. In fact, Sunday marked three years since the U.S. Senate last passed a budget. Getting the fiscal house in order clearly isn’t their top priority. But just how bad is the country’s [...]
Forget Homeland Security, Now It’s About ‘Environmental Justice’
BY ALAN CARUBA It is the nature of any government to seek to expand its authority. The Founding Fathers knew this and gifted Americans with a Constitution that limits authority devolving it to the states and to “the people.” Read the Tenth Amendment. It isn’t working. The freedoms they sought to establish and preserve for future [...]
The Economy and General Electric
Protestors disrupted General Electric's shareholders meeting outraged at the company for not paying more in taxes and for not compensating retirees for inflation. But the anger at the company was misdirected. By Dennis Behreandt General Electric, holding its shareholder's meeting in Detroit, faced waves of protestors arguing that the [...]
Agenda 21′s Role in America’s Financial Breakdown
BY HENRY LAMB For more than 20 years, now, the most powerful word in advertising has been “sustainable.” This term sells everything from toilet paper to spark plugs. This same term is even more powerful when applied to public policies such as: “sustainable” energy; transportation; agriculture; development; housing, and almost every [...]
Surprise! American Savings Rate Falls
A tepid recovers has some hoping the recession is a thing of the past, but high federal debt and monetary expansion threaten future prosperity. By Dennis Behreandt The Bureau of Economic Analysis, a part of the Department of Commerce, reported in its March 30 release that Americans are saving less money and spending more. According to the [...]
Washington Needs a Lesson on Student Loans
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION You know a politician is looking for applause when he speaks in front of a crowd of college students and says he’s there to help them pay back their student loans. After all, who doesn’t like the prospect of free money? But as the saying (sort of) goes, beware of politicians bearing gifts. That’s [...]
Coincidences, Truth, and Propaganda
BY ALAN CARUBA On April 18th I received an email from the Sierra Club announcing that “We’re endorsing President Obama for reelection. We’ve made too much progress over the past four years to give it all back to Big Polluters.” Among the Sierra Club’s many projects to plunge the nation back to the golden days of reading by candle [...]
Energy: Pennsylvannia’s Choice, America’s Model
ROBERT T. SMITH, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES We can’t drill our way to energy independence. Or so proclaims the president and many of his supporters. Here in Pennsylvania, the proclamation rings hollow; we are in the midst of a historic natural gas boom. Pennsylvania has an abundant supply of natural gas locked up in the geology of the [...]
Too Small to Fall: The Case for Post Office Closures
JAMES GATTUSO, HERITAGE FOUNDATION The post office in Hope, Minnesota, is no doubt a quiet place. During a typical business day it sees eight customers, who require a total of seven minutes of service. The Postal Service wants to close the facility, and instead serve the 90 residents of Hope from the adjacent town of Ellendale, 10 minutes away. [...]
What’s the Senate Thinking?
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION April 29 marks the third year in which the U.S. Senate has not passed a budget — a staggering dereliction of duty, particularly given the country’s near-$16 trillion debt. But that’s not the Senate’s only blockbuster failure under the leadership of Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). From spending to [...]
The Stigmatizing of Authority
The medicalization of rebellion Sheldon Richman, The Freeman In 1861 Samuel A. Cartwright, an American physician, described a mental illness he called “drapetomania.” As Wikipedia points out, the term derived from drapetes, Greek for “runaway ,” and mania for madness or frenzy. Thus Cartwright defined drapetomania as “the [...]
The Folly of E15 Anti-Hydrocarbon Policies
EPA’s E-15 ethanol plan is bad for our pocketbooks, environment and energy policy By Paul Driessen The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and [...]
Earth Day 2012: Measuring Cow Farts
BY ALAN CARUBA This is an example of how stupid the entire cult of environmentalism is. Some "scientists" measured the amount of methane in cow farts by way of saving the Earth from something or other. If you look closely at virtually everything environmentalists say about any subject, you will conclude that it closely resembles cow [...]
The Audacity of Ignorance
BY HENRY LAMB When Obama was elected President, he thought “foreign policy” meant strategies to organize the Chicago suburbs of Oak Park and Glen Ellyn. Now, well into his fourth year as President, he has added Iran and Syria to the list of “suburbs” he thinks can be organized by sitting down with their leaders and explaining what he [...]
What if Fannie and Freddie Were Eliminated?
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION For the past several years, it’s not been an uncommon sight in Anytown, USA, to drive down the street and see home after home for sale after going through foreclosure. They are the still-lingering hangover from the housing crash that began in 2007. Though the true cause of what burst America’s housing [...]
Is Serfdom an Executive Order Away?
Sheldon Richman, The Freeman Sometimes a step back helps to provide perspective on a matter. President Obama provided such a step with his March 16 Executive Order—National Defense Resources Preparedness. In it we see in detail how completely the government may control our lives—euphemistically called the “industrial and technological [...]
Equal Pay Day: Some Thoughts
Steven Horwitz, The Freeman Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, designed to point out the lingering gap between men’s and women’s earnings. Depending on which group you listen to and which way of measuring you trust more, the average woman earns 75-80 percent of the average man’s pay. Many women’s organizations, as well as left-leaning [...]
The Governing Class and Us
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION In a speech yesterday in Elyria, Ohio — a small town just outside Cleveland sitting at the forks of the Black River — President Barack Obama delivered a politically charged speech in which he hearkened back to the country’s roots, saying that his opponents “don’t seem to remember how America was [...]
Henry Ford: No Model P(rogressive)
NEW COMMON SENSE, HERITAGE FOUNDATION Obama has a new role model for his Buffett Rule tax—Henry Ford. It’s an odd choice considering that Ford advocated free-market capitalism and opposed redistributive policies. Despite the lucrative government contracts, Henry Ford refused to participate in FDR’s 1933 National Recovery Act (let’s not [...]
Obama’s New Gas Price Scapegoat
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION High gas prices are not a president’s friend, especially in an election year, so it’s not surprising that President Barack Obama is trying his darndest to shift the blame for record-high fuel prices onto something other than his failed energy policies. Yesterday he made a desperate attempt to distract [...]
On Hope and Hate: Week One of Obama v. Romney
PAUL G. KENGOR, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Something wonderful unfolded in American politics the last few days. Almost immediately after Rick Santorum dropped out of the Republican presidential hunt, David Axelrod and the Obama reelection team unleashed the class-warfare cannons. They expected to enjoy the first salvo of the season, [...]
Overthrowing Environmentalism
BY ALAN CARUBA In 1517 Martin Luther set off the Protestant revolution against the Catholic Church that led to the spread of the then-new movement as a response to the corruption of the Church. It took time for it to establish itself as an alternative and was greatly aided by the invention of printing and spread of literacy, but mostly because [...]
Chapter 17: Pick a Leaf, Any Leaf
BY CHRIS CLANCY A week or so after returning from Thailand the new semester began. I got back into the swing of things very easily. Two girls who I’d taught the previous semester agreed to come and clean my place once a week. Their English names were Becky and Alien. After a few weeks they’d whipped the apartment into some sort of [...]
