Daily Archives: April 2, 2012

A new State Integrity Investigation* report ranks the fifty states and gives them a letter grade on just how corrupt, non-transparent or lacking in accountability they are.   None made an A, eight got Fs.  Georgia is the worst; New Jersey the best (apparently they have recently enacted a bunch of anti-corruption laws in light of,Continue Reading

Hans Bader has a good piece here on the manifold ways in which the policies the Obama administration is pursuing inhibit job creation. In fact, they tend to do the opposite. The Leviathan state (whether you’re talking about France under Louis XIV, Russia under the Romanoffs, Argentina under Peron, Britain under the Labour Party, orContinue Reading

AEI’s Arnold Kling offers this review of two important books about the rule of law and the spread of Western democracy. In the United States we take peaceful, democratic elections for granted. Because we think of our form of government as clearly superior, we expect that other countries will to be able to readily adoptContinue Reading

They typically attract less attention than the Federalists who ended up playing top roles in the early days of the new American republic, but Anti-Federalists played a critical role in shaping the U.S. Constitution and limiting the early power of the newly created federal government. Troy Kickler presented that argument during today’s meeting of theContinue Reading

Another great column by Mark Steyn. The United States is the only Western nation in which our rulers invoke the Constitution for the purpose of overriding it — or, at any rate, torturing its language beyond repair. Thus, in this week’s debate on whether Obamacare is merely the latest harmless evolution of the interstate-commerce clause,Continue Reading

There was, in fact; the Obama campaign worked hard to demonize it; and its sponsors included Sen. Richard Burr, along with Sen. Coburn (R-OK) and Reps. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Devin Nunes (R-CA). John Goodman explodes the myth, then describes the plan, which would “replace all government tax and spending subsidies for the purchase ofContinue Reading

In today’s Pope Center piece, Jay Schalin writes about a recent lecture given by a UNC communications professor on the subject of “corporate social responsibility.” When questioned, the professor said that profits were anti-social. Business executives should not try to maximize them, but instead use the firm’s resources for “the public good.” There is nothingContinue Reading

The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney explains why the JOBS Act that President Obama will sign this week is not legislation that favors entrepreneurs.