Newsmax RSS FeedTue, 21 May 2013 16:33:30 EDTOne of the things that triggered additional scrutiny from the IRS for groups applying for tax-exempt status was any plan for “educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.” Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:13 EDTOf all the discouraging news in the scandal involving President Obama's IRS, the most illuminating is that one of the things that triggered additional scrutiny from the agency for groups applying for tax-exempt status was any plan for "educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights."Mon, 13 May 2013 15:42:19 EDTHere’s the commencement speech that members of the Class of 2013 probably won’t hear, but that I wish had been given to me when I graduated:Mon, 06 May 2013 14:41:16 EDTOne of the things that’s wrong with America these days is what might be called the Plausibility Plague — the problem of pundits assuring readers that some outcome is impossible.Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:32:04 EDTA recent newspaper included a glossy magazine with an article urging me to run out and buy a house — fast! “Thanks to historically low interest rates, affordability is at an all-time high,” the article said.Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:01:26 EDTThe war isn’t over. That’s the big takeaway from the Boston Marathon bombing, like it or not.Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:25:07 EDTThere’s a great scene in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” when an older man takes a recent graduate aside and says, “I just want to say one word to you, just one word . . . Are you listening? . . . Plastics.”Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:52:22 EDTOf all the possible ways to remember Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — victorious cold warrior, pioneering woman politician, resolute American ally — the one that’s probably most relevant today is the way she transformed Britain’s domestic policy and economy.Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:49:48 EDTOne of the most important but least noticed changes in American life over the past 20 years is the way that tax season has gone from a time when Americans write checks to the Internal Revenue Service to a time when the IRS sends money to Americans.Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:07:01 EDTThe Republican National Committee’s report on how to recover from its 2012 election losses is out, and the product is a strange combination of the intriguing, the illuminating, the hypocritical, and the humorous.Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:57:42 EDTIn a city where the unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, above both the statewide and national average, you’d think that mayoral candidates would be competing to attract businesses and jobs.Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:35:45 EDTWarren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the richest men in the world, put out his annual letter to shareholders over the weekend.Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:57:11 EDTWith a March 1 deadline looming for the imposition of the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, President Obama and his allies in the press are stepping up their campaign for additional tax increases on the rich.Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:26:35 EDTThe Obama State of the Union line that s attracting the most attention is the $9-an-hour minimum wage. But the policy initiative that s most illuminating in a certain way is the college scorecard. The minimum wage is certainly telling. A friend emailed the day after the...Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:52:12 EDTSenator Marco Rubio of Florida is scheduled to give the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Here’s one approach he may want to consider for his speech:Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:14:08 EDTFor decades the political arithmetic of entitlement reform in Washington has run something like this: you can either raise taxes, or you can cut benefits.Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:58:35 EDTJohn Mackey, the cofounder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, has a flair for well-timed entries into public policy debates, as readers of his 2009 Wall Street Journal op-ed attacking Obamacare may recall.