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California's Gas Tax Emits Political Hot Air

Even drivers of gasoline-free vehicles have to pay the ineffective levy...  Read more

Republicans dismiss 'liberal activists' behind angry town hall protests

Liberals are calling it "resistance recess," but Republicans are guardedly hoping that the rowdy town hall meetings they're facing back home represent a harmless burst of left-wing activism triggered by President Trump, instead of a real warning sign for the GOP in 2018...  Read more

Conservative group prods Trump to withdraw from Paris climate deal

The ad will be used to gain signatures for an online petition that will be sent to Trump, urging him to withdraw from the Paris agreement...  Read more

What makes Washington wealthy

The two richest counties in America, and five of the seven richest, are in commuting distance of D.C.  Read more

GOP doesn't know how to rein in Elizabeth Warren's pet agency, the CFPB

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's enemies are still trying to find a plan of attack...  Read more

Shooting Blanks

In an 1852 letter, Gustave Flaubert announced his ambition to write “a book about nothing, a book with no external attachments."...  Read more

Trump gambles big on Obamacare payments

President Trump's threat to use Obamacare payments to leverage support from Democrats follows one of his recommendations for business success in "The Art of the Deal,"...  Read more

White House to pull back Obamacare oversight

The Trump administration will be scaling back its oversight of Obamacare starting next year, moving some duties to the states, amid criticism from advocates that it will hurt patients...  Read more

Gorsuch gets major religious liberty case for his opening week on the Supreme Court

High court will hear arguments in a case pitting Missouri's Constitution against a church playground...  Read more

Calling out South Korean IP theft on fifth anniversary of trade deal

Over the five years since the United States and South Korea entered into the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, or KORUS, our ally has repeatedly backstabbed American biopharmaceutical firms and undercut their intellectual property rights...  Read more

Can Nixon Fade Into History While Our Current Era So Often Evokes Him?

A new biography takes a disinterested, but not uninteresting, look at our 37th president...  Read more

America First at a reformed, smaller, Ex-Im bank

"Instinctively, you would say, 'Isn't that a ridiculous thing?'" President Trump said this week of the Export-Import Bank, which extends taxpayer financing to foreign companies if they buy American goods...  Read more

How conservatives could benefit from Trump admin infighting

President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner may be ascendant, but don't count out the conservatives in the administration yet...  Read more

RNC chair to GOP: show you can govern or lose in 2018

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel believes it is time for Republicans to move into governing mode and predicted that failing to keep promises would hurt the party in next year's midterm elections...  Read more

US Syria strategy begins in Iraq

Strategically, the recent U.S. attack on the Syrian airfield ordered by President Trump will have little value if it is not followed by steps that change the dynamics on the ground...  Read more

Tillerson Says Relations With Russia Have Reached a 'Low Point'

The secretary of state warns that the world powers must have a better relationship...  Read more

Gorsuch begins first day at Supreme Court

Justice Neil Gorsuch's introduction to his new job begins Thursday when the Supreme Court gathers in conference ahead of next week's oral arguments...  Read more

Economics 101: Price controls lead to violence, even on airplanes

A beautiful thing about the free market, as the late economist Milton Friedman observed, is that every transaction within it occurs only because it is mutually beneficial...  Read more