By: Stephen Moore – washingtontimes.com – April 29, 2018 ANALYSIS/OPINION: I have argued many times on these pages, and elsewhere, that the shale oil and gas revolution is the story of the decade. Since 2007 U.S. oil and gas output has risen by about 75 percent and the renaissance is still in its infancy stages. This year the surge in...

By: Kristina Rasmussen – washingtonexaminer.com – April 23, 2018 Despite near-historical low unemployment rates and employers desperate to fill open jobs across the country, welfare enrollment is soaring. And overwhelmingly, the newest enrollees aren’t those the system was intended to serve — the elderly and those with disabilities, among others. Instead, they’re mainly able-bodied adults. But now, things are changing....

By: FGA – thefga.org – 2018 Graph for Promoting Work. Graph for Welfare Integrity. Graph for demographics of voters. https://thefga.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Voters-Support-Food-Stamp-Reformsin-the-Farm-Bill-4-13-18.pdf To see this report in full, click read more. Source: Voters Support Food Stamp Reforms in the Farm Bill – The Foundation for Government Accountability

By: Daniel Horowitz – conservativereview.com – April 4, 2018 Can a group of foreign nationals rush our borders, claim to be unaccompanied minors or have a credible fear of persecution, and get in – while there is nothing an American president can do to protect America’s sovereignty, security, culture, schools, and social programs from the invasion? Does the president need...

By: Kira Davis – redstate.com – April 25, 2018 In recent weeks many people across the globe have been moved and outraged by the story of little Alfie Evans, whose life hung in the balance in a British hospital and whose fate was taken from the hands of his parents by the National Health Service (NHS) and the courts. As...

By: Jonah Goldberg – national review.com – April 12, 2018 Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have...

By: Chuck Bentley – crown.org – April 2, 2018 I did not enjoy taking tests in school. There were some students that eagerly welcomed the opportunity to showcase their knowledge, but tests typically made me nervous. As a student, I saw a test as a way to prove to the teacher what I had learned. The number of correct and...

By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – April 05, 2018 Nancy Pelosi didn’t have a great day yesterday, making an embarrassing, ‘Anchorman’-style mistake on social media, then handing Republicans another ready-made attack line against Democrats heading into the fall.  On the Twitter faux pas, it looks like she or somebody on her staff was supposed to tag a tweet with names...

By: Trevor Hunnicutt & Kate Duguid – reuters.com – April 4, 2018 Graphic: Top U.S. trade partners & foreign holders of Treasuries – reut.rs/2CUqQB0 It took China just 11 hours to retaliate against the United States for proposing tariffs on some 1,300 Chinese products, but Chinese officials are holding back on taking aim at their largest American import: government debt....

By: Michael Stumo & Dan DiMicco — thehill.com – March 29, 2018 President Trump’s renegotiated Korea trade deal shows that the era of America’s unilateral trade disarmament is over. During the last 30 years, various academics and free traders have urged the United States to pre-emptively remove all of its trade barriers. The idea was to encourage other countries to...