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EDITORIAL: Breaking from bad laws
The latest brawl in the entertainment industry came to a head last weekend. Screens went dark for many of the 14 million subscribers to the Dish Network who attempted to tune in to watch Sunday's season premiere of AMC's hit show, "Breaking Bad." Published July 17, 2012
EDITORIAL: Blowing smoke over global warming
Legend has it that Washington was built on a swamp, and its sweltering summers add credence to the story. Lately, global warming adherents have been capitalizing on the city's sultry weather to advance their belief that the use of fossil fuels is responsible for rising temperatures baking the planet. Published July 16, 2012
EDITORIAL: Mind your own business, Obama
President Obama thinks business owners don't actually do anything. This is the most convincing proof yet that he has no concept of how the economy works. Published July 16, 2012
EDITORIAL: It’s for the children
School's out for the summer, so it came as a bit of a surprise Wednesday when Baltimore County, Md., announced new steps supposedly being taken to protect school children. According to officials, construction has begun for the positioning of a speed camera outside Stoneleigh Elementary. Published July 13, 2012
EDITORIAL: Gov. Moonbeam’s ‘Hydrogen Highway’
There's no idea so crazy that you can't find a government grant to implement it. After all, California voters approved a project to build what's now a $70 billion bullet train between Bakersfield and Madera -- two unremarkable cities situated in the middle of nowhere. Published July 13, 2012
EDITORIAL: Maryland’s canine holocaust
Man's best friend is coming under ferocious attack. More and more rules and regulations are popping up to condemn dogs based not on their individual character, but whether they look dangerous. Published July 12, 2012
EDITORIAL: Escape from Maryland
When times are tight, people look for potential savings wherever they can. Increasingly, Marylanders living under the oppressive tax regime of Gov. Martin F. O'Malley have realized they can get a better deal by packing their bags and heading for the Old Dominion. Published July 10, 2012
EDITORIAL: The Islamist pyramid scheme
Radical Muslims want to tear down Egypt's pyramids and take over the world. The least the rest of us can do is take them seriously. Published July 10, 2012
EDITORIAL: Demonizing the Kochs
The left is trying to convince the public to hate the Koch brothers. The billionaire businessmen Charles and David Koch are a favorite target of liberals because their support of free-market causes serves as a counterbalance to the inordinate sums given to Democrats from unions and Hollywood. Published July 10, 2012
EDITORIAL: European Kabuki
Don't expect America's big overseas trading partners to clean up their act anytime soon. The latest European Union summit ended with no clear winners or losers other than possibly German taxpayers. Published July 9, 2012
EDITORIAL: The Islamist president’s power grab
The Arab Spring is over; the Egyptian Revolution has begun. Egypt's new president Mohammed Morsi issued a decree Sunday reconvening the country's recently dissolved parliament. Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court disagreed, saying its finding that the parliamentary election was unconstitutional was final. Published July 9, 2012
EDITORIAL: Obama gambles, America loses
The latest Obama 2012 campaign slogan is "Betting on America." However, the latest round of dismal economic news shows that when it comes to the economy, President Obama is a poor gambler, and the country is headed for bust. Published July 6, 2012
EDITORIAL: The U.N. is coming for your guns
The United Nations is deliberating over a treaty that will place comprehensive limits on the international weapons trade. The language of the draft agreement is so expansive it wouldn't take an Obama-appointed judge very long to extend the treaty to cover the domestic firearms market as well. Published July 5, 2012
EDITORIAL: Court decrees global warming
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled June 26 that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was "unambiguously correct" in applying the Clean Air Act to combat carbon dioxide. The court deferred to the scientific judgment of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson in the agency's endangerment finding that this gas, which is produced by all humans, becomes harmful to human health when it is a byproduct of man-made technological advances such as automobiles. Published July 5, 2012
EDITORIAL: Government fiddles while the West burns
A U.S. Air Force C-130 aircraft outfitted with a modular airborne firefighting system crashed in South Dakota on Sunday, killing four. Meanwhile, a supertanker with a much larger capacity than any aircraft flying is sitting idle as fires continue to rage in the West. That's how government doesn't work. Published July 4, 2012
EDITORIAL: Happy Dependence Day
Forget about those fireworks (too dangerous) and their ostentatious display of anachronistic values. Forget also about mom (sexist gender-role stereotype) and apple pie (too fattening). Wednesday has become Dependence Day, a time to reflect on all the good that the federal government does for us. Published July 3, 2012
EDITORIAL: When free men shall stand
Two hundred years ago, the United States was mobilizing for conflict. The country had formally declared war for the first time in its history, against Great Britain. Hostilities would last for three years and claim around 20,000 lives on both sides. Published July 2, 2012
EDITORIAL: Obama’s war on guns and oil
The Obama administration is using more than just the Environmental Protection Agency to "crucify" businesses it doesn't like. Congress won't enact any gun-control measures, and the American people aren't interested in paying more at the pump. Published June 29, 2012
EDITORIAL: The pension bubble
As if the housing market collapse and European debt crisis weren't bad enough, another fiscal disaster looms on the horizon. New rules adopted last week by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) clarify the depth of mismanagement of state and local government pension programs. Published June 29, 2012
EDITORIAL: Chief Justice Roberts: Genius or traitor?
Conservative opinion on Chief Justice John Roberts in the wake of Thursday's Obamacare decision is as divided as the high court itself. To some, he is a traitor to the right who passed up an opportunity to nullify the "signature achievement" of the Obama administration. Published June 29, 2012
