ISTOOK: Get ready for super-priced burgers due to NLRB decree
Once again, one man has dictated a major change of federal law that can cost American families dearly.It may double the price of your Big Mac, Whopper, fried chicken, donuts or other purchases at your...
View ArticleISTOOK: Soda tax? Another step in the march of the food police
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, sang Mary Poppins.Just a tax on each spoonful of sugar helps the revenue go up, sings Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut Democrat.Those two will never...
View ArticleISTOOK: Finally! FDA about to act on breath mint label regulation
Fortunately, nobody held their breath waiting on this. In 1997, the Food and Drug Administration published a proposed rule to regulate the labels on breath mints, changing a 1993 standard. Now, in...
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: Obamacare enrollment advertising asked of federal workers,...
ANALYSIS/OPINION:President Obama wants millions of new recruiters for Obamacare, so he is drafting federal workers — including soldiers — to ask their friends and family to sign up for coverage at...
View ArticleObama's success is people's distress: Electric bills are skyrocketing
American households are suffering from a little-reported part of President Obama’s agenda — skyrocketing electricity costs.Supply and demand explains it: Under Mr. Obama’s plan, the country will lose 9...
View ArticleTracking our driving, Big Brother takes the wheel
Modern technology has given Big Brother a growth spurt; he's now bigger than ever. And he's added Big Data as a key member of Uncle Sam's family.Every day government bureaucracies, just like our...
View ArticleISTOOK: Anarchy, bullying and extortion on Obama's Internet
President Obama’s two big decisions on the Internet are poles apart. In 2009, his Department of Commerce relinquished big chunks of America’s control over the Internet to ICANN. Six years later, Mr....
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: How red tape, runaway regulations wreck your budget
Runaway regulations are hurting everyday people and wrecking family budgets. It's not big companies that suffer from the $1.88 trillion annual burden of red tape that the government imposes. They add...
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: Today's Indian wars are fought at the casino
America still fights Indian wars, but today these battles center not around settlers pushing their homesteads onto tribal lands but around gambling.Thanks to advantages given by the political system,...
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: Regulators take another run at dishwashers
It's a dirty shame what the bureaucrats are doing to our hands.Government regulators are making make people work harder as labor- and time-saving home appliances become too expensive. Millions of more...
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: Same-sex court decision destroys the democratic process
We lose the democratic process when courts make our biggest decisions for us.Our Constitution provides clear limits on the powers of government. Instead, the Supreme Court uses the Constitution to...
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: This July 4, the rockets' red glare requires lots of red tape
What is it with the bureaucrats and our celebrations?They're "completely insane" over fireworks, according to the pyrotechnic industry, after bureaucrats issued pre-Fourth of July warnings claiming...
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: Big Brother kills choices for low-income Americans
Big Brother's regulators are out to kill the payday loan industry that serves millions of Americans. The welfare state wants no rivals for the loyalty of low-income people.Low-income people are the...
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: Congress gave Obama the power to make a bad deal with Iran
President Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran may prove to have more loopholes than substance. But don't heap all the guilt on Mr. Obama; he is following the pattern created by Congress. Our sanctions...
View ArticleERNEST ISTOOK: EPA power grab is water torture for the economy
The EPA is trying to regulate every damp spot in America, and a flood of lawsuits is the result.The Constitution gives the federal government the authority to regulate commerce on "navigable waters,"...
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