PolicyBytes

The governor doing more than anyone to create Texas jobs is Jerry Brown.

You wouldn't know it from the media, but those on the political left, not conservatives, are the real anti-science hardliners. Just look at genetically modified foods.

We don’t have to wait until he is elected to see Sanders’s ideal health care system; we can look at Puerto Rico.

Donald Trump, the businessman who claims to know how to close a deal, has a way to lower the price of prescription drugs: allow the government to "negotiate: (i.e., dictate) the price.

Tax cuts are nice but they are not enough. The government doesn’t just take too much money, it also spends too much.

Democrats were once the principled voices in support of free trade; now they support protectionism and trade barriers that only lead to trade wars.

As an Oregon welfare reform pilot program demonstrated in the 1990s, when people looking for welfare benefits were told they would have to work for their benefits, about a third walked out saying if they had to work they’d find their own job. 

Higher wages are nice, but not when it costs you your job.

The country has experienced three recessions in the past 30 years, and in each instance, median household income began to decline about a year to 18 months prior to the start of a recession. A 2013 report showing how median household income began to again decline hints that a recession may be around the corner.

A president’s last State of the Union Address is often about defending his legacy. And he will have to because no one else will.