Last month, President Obama delivered a speech on climate change during which he announced his plans to increase regulations and impose a costly national tax on affordable energy sources. He intends to enact this proposal through executive action, avoiding Congress and the citizens they represent. Specifically, the president will authorize the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
“Two things in life are certain,” Benjamin Franklin noted, “death and taxes.” Two hundred years later, Franklin’s observation remains as true as ever. During Franklin’s time, however, death itself was not always a taxable event. In the years immediately following the American Revolution, the death, or “estate” tax was levied sporadically – and temporarily – […]
The world Ronald Reagan inherited in 1980 was a dangerous one. The Soviet Union – perhaps better remembered as the “evil empire” – remained a threat to democratic freedom across the globe. The hostile regime in Iran had held 52 Americans captive for 444 days. And just three years into his first term, the United […]
Nowhere is trust more important than in the United States military – a unique institution built on the chain-of-command tradition. Young men and women must trust their commanders leading them into battle. They must trust the president, their Commander-in-Chief. They must trust Congress to take seriously the decision to send them into harm’s way. And […]
Nebraskans may recall last summer’s partisan squabble over student loan rates, which were set to expire and subsequently rise on millions of college students across the nation at the height of the presidential campaign. It was the hope of many Americans, myself included, that the end of the last campaign would lead to, at a […]