A Balanced Budget Amendment's Virtues

Diana Furchtgott-Roth explains why a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution offers a promising path to restoring national economic self-discipline, and how it might be structured to rein in profligate federal government spending. Read it here.

Poll: Young Hispanics Favor Conservative Economic Strategies

The Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog cites an interesting survey, by Kellyanne Conway's thepollingcompany/WomanTrends, of 18- to 29-year-old Hispanics indicating nearly 7 in 10 prefer conservative strategies to fix America's fiscal problems.

"Once Higher Taxes are on the Table, Everything Else Comes Off"

Eight states have proven it's possible to balance big deficit budgets without raising taxes. Unfortunately for the country, the Obama Administration ignores these states as it pursues a spend-and-tax-everyone plan.

Seven of these states are led by conservatives: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Indiana, Maine, Texas and Florida. All it took, writes Frank Donatelli, was a willingness "to make tough choices and tell the truth to voters." The 8th state is New York, led by liberal Governor Andrew Cuomo:

Lopez: "Forget You, Feminism"

National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez posted a thoroughly enjoyable article poking a bit of fun at the Left's "favored f-word of faux liberation."

After decades of insistence that women have “equal rights” even when that really means special rights to ensure that the numbers of women in executive and other jobs are what a good redistributionist would like — never mind the choices women themselves make — it appears that the women who are on the rise in electoral politics are not exactly the type of women that longtime “Woman for President” campaigners had in mind.

Why NOW Should Change its Name

Kayla Westbrook, a Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute student activist at Florida State University, shares her experience at NOW's annual conference:

The NOW National Conference was held in Tampa last weekend, and it confirmed my belief, if confirmation were needed, that the National Organization for Women doesn't really promote women (especially not conservative ones), but rather uses them as a facade for a progressive agenda. Read the rest at National Review Online...

Happy Independence Day, America!

The nation's Founding Fathers fought for - and succeeded in - establishing an alternative, revolutionary idea of governance: one that made the individual master, and government his servant. Every generation since has faced the same battle: to go the way of the rest of the world, or to remain exceptional in the world. As Marco Rubio articulates so well, "It's now our turn" ...

Did Feminism Really Free Women?

“Women are from Venus, men are from Hell” – these were the words used by Christina Hoff Sommers, moderating a Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute panel, to describe the sort of ‘textbooks’ she was required to teach from as a college philosophy professor. A self-confessed former liberal, Sommers began the conversion to more conservative ideas after being “excommunicated” from the feminist movement for attempting to balance the coursework in her classes. By offering her students some alternatives to radical feminism, Sommers put herself squarely in the cross hairs of the single-minded mentality of the Left. This is an all-too-familiar experience for conservative students speaking out on their college campuses but, according to Sommers, the tide is changing. The veil is being lifted on the liberal feminist lies and conservative women are leading the fight.

Sommers was joined by Hudson Institute senior fellow economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth, healthcare expert and Galen Institute president Grace-Marie Turner, and National Review Online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez, whose recent article inspired this panel entitled “Freedom from Feminism.”