Housing Crisis: Government mortgage company Freddie Mac lost an additional $6 billion in the third quarter and wants Congress to bail it out with taxpayers' money. How about dissolving the failed institution instead? Freddie Mac is an almost bottomless p

Energy Policy: The president who often lets policy decisions be driven by others now says the pipeline to bring Canada's tar sands oil to America is his decision to make. So make it already, Mr. President. The administration's industrial policy of pickin

Health Reform: How do you funnel billions of dollars to your union pals at a time when the government is running record deficits? Easy, you just tuck the money into ObamaCare. According to a new Government Accountability Office report, the federal govern

Moral Hazard: By calling for a referendum on the European Union's bailout, Greece has essentially spit in the face of the very people trying to save it. It may be time to let Greece default and go its own way. The EU, at its own peril, keeps trying to he

Public Sector: When bailed-out private Wall Street banks handed out bonuses last year, the president threw a fit. So why is he ignoring the huge executive bonuses at government-owned Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Shortly after taking office, President Obam

Taxes: Colorado voters have closed their wallets and told their state government to learn how to live within its means. It's a message that Washington should heed as well. When a swing state speaks, smart politicians listen. Colorado is one such state â€

Human Capital: Earth now has 7 billion people. Are we overcrowded? About to outstrip our resources? Should we prepare for the catastrophic population bomb we've been warned about? No, no and no. In 1968, a Stanford biologist named Paul R. Ehrlich wrote "

Economic Policy: The mainstream media's caricature of the bipartisan budget "supercommittee" is that its Democratic members have gone overboard with concessions. In fact, Republicans can smell the snake oil. Whenever Washington sets up a "blue ribbon com

Boondoggle Watch: A new business plan puts the cost of California's planned bullet train at nearly $100 billion. And air travel will still be three times faster. Time to stop this train before it leaves the station. When President Obama talks about how A

Banks: Using the Guy Fawkes mask emblem of Occupy Wall Street and the "Anonymous" hacker group, leftists are planning a big Nov. 5 to-do to pull their money from big banks and put it into small banks. It's economic idiocy. Led by the likes of MoveOn.org,