Last week, the Supreme Court issued a ruling – a ruling in support of the endangered concept of free speech. In a 5-to-4 decision, it says that the government lacks a legitimate basis to restrict campaign expenditures by companies. In other words, it scrapped major portions of McCain-Feingold campaign law. That’s good news. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion, “The government may regulate corporate political speech through disclaimer and disclosure requirements, but it may not suppress that speech altogether.” Score one for the First Amendment. Now starts the whin...

Let’s say that you have invested a pant-load of money in some business. The business is failing. You want it to succeed. You want the best executive talent you can find to step in and save the business … and your investment. Now just how helpful do you think it would be if you told the search committee looking for a new CEO that you were going to appoint some political hack to make sure that the new boss doesn’t make too much money? Can you see that any extraordinarily qualified candidate for the job would tell you to take it and shove it where even the TSA couldn’t fin...

Well, say “au revoir” to the Cash for Clunkers. As of Monday the program is history. Unfortunately for Barack Obama and the Democrats, it has left a pretty bad taste in people’s mouths. This coincides with a debate over government running our healthcare system. Maybe the administration should have thought about the implications of this program being horribly run considering its push to run healthcare. Here are just a few of the problems with the cash for clunkers: Congress, relying on auto industry forecasts that the program wouldn’t have a major effect on moribund s...

We’ve been through this routine before. The favorite buzzword of the left, and of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, was “change.” My question was always, change from what to what? Well it seems as though we finally have an answer. The change that Barack Obama would like to see implemented is a change from a free market system to one of government dominance. At least when it comes to healthcare. He has launched an email campaign to ask his supporters to attend at least one community event on healthcare this month. He is apparently asking them to do this in order to ...

Most government-educated Americans would be shocked to hear that there is no “right” to healthcare. Tell me where in our Constitution it is written that you have a right to a portion of someone else’s life and in this case, it would be the service of providing medical care at the point of a gun. Well, the Democrats are on a fast track to ensuring that Americans can claim healthcare as a “right.” Under the House Democrats proposed plan, the federal government would be responsible for making sure that every person has health insurance. Did you know that if you as a...