Politics

Is first lady Michelle Obama being groomed for political office?

Big-government advocates make decisions that can affect the market and billions of dollars in an instant, but are shocked that people try to profit from those decisions.

Outrage at groups seeking a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status is misplaced; it’s free speech, not the tax code, that’s under attack.

With a large, powerful, intrusive government, your freedom is only as secure as the virtue of whatever mid-level functionary whose path you are so unfortunate as to cross.

"We need to champion those climbing the economic ladder," Cruz said last week during the 25th anniversary celebration of the Institute for Policy Innovation at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. "We should be defenders and champions of the 47 percent."

If the sequester cuts are hurting the economy, the stock market hasn’t noticed.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday that he’s not thinking about running for the White House in 2016. “My focus is entirely on the U.S. Senate,” Cruz said before speaking at the silver anniversary of the Institute for Policy Innovation. “Right now the U.S. Senate is the battlefield for preserving liberty.”

IPI President Tom Giovanetti's Address at the 25th Anniversary Celebration: A New Frontier for Liberty.

Conservatives should not assume bureaucrats will think or act like private sector business when implementing the sequester cuts.

The U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has been ratcheting up its use of some questionable methods for determining hiring or pay discrimination, amounting to a perpetual witch hunt of manufactured culprits to harass in order to justify their own existence—and budget.