Yawper

Stephen Chu, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, remarked prior to taking office that “somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”  With analysts predicting $5.00 per gallon prices by the end of the summer, Dr. Chu seems to have achieved his goal. Three […]

That is the question.  Whether or not the individual mandate is a tax, or something else, is the question at the heart of legal challenges to the validity of Obamacare. President Obama’s health care leviathan contains a requirement – a mandate – that every single person have health care.  If you do not have health […]

Many of the great issues of American politics have long been settled.  The result is a common canon of beliefs to which most of us subscribe.  While it may be far-fetched to think America is about re-open the most fundamental of debates, we are inching ever closer to that possibility. Americans of all political stripes, […]