Luis Fortuno — A Fortunate Find for Puerto Rico

John Stossels's report "The Money Hole" on Puerto Rico's governor Luis Fortuno was eye-opening.I had no idea that Latin American countries were effective free-market reforms once again.Stossel was prescient in his article when he argued that the...

Executive Leadership a Must: Executive Orders

President Obama felt justified issuing an executive order to shepherd his ObamaCare legislation through Congress.Why not issue an executive order curtailing the rampant spending that is wastefully tossed throughout the country?Presidential candidate Ron Paul has...

Executive Leadership a Must: Impounding

Thomas Jefferson did it.Richard Nixon did it, too, but Congress took him to court.If Nixon had not been weighed down with the Watergate scandal, he could have taken Congress to court for unconstitutional appropriations.Much of what Congress outlays is unacceptable,...

Executive Leadership a Must: A Line-Item Veto

A line-item veto: President Bill Clinton possessed that power for the first two years that he was in office. He lopped off about two billion dollars from one billion, although such a sum was a mere rounding error then, and now it would be a bare smudge. The Supreme...

Executive Leadership a Must Part I

With all the executive czars that President Obama has appointed during his brief tenure in office, why not a budget-reform czar, one who can make the necessary cuts and take all the inevitable blame that will follow?Whoever the next chief executive will be, we need a...

Super-Committee Impasse — Impossible Otherwise

The Supercommittee was established by Congress to dump the necessary yet unpopular responsibility of cutting costs and raising revenue.Now, the Supercommittee is at an impasse, unable to bring two sides together on compromising debt reduction.Democrats and liberals...