ERNEST ISTOOK: Big Brother kills choices for low-income Americans
Big Brother’s government 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.
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Ernest Istook
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ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama’s 12 Days of Christmas
ERNEST ISTOOK: Global warming causes terrorism? Also acne and crab grass
Add a biggie to the list of calamities caused by global warming. No longer does it only cause acne, crabgrass and the death of the Loch Ness Monster.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Gun control propaganda blinds us
ERNEST ISTOOK: Blame Congress, not just Obama, for awful Iran nuclear deal
ERNEST ISTOOK: EPA power grab is water torture for the economy
ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama’s transgender soldiers will distract from our national defense
ERNEST ISTOOK: Congress gave Obama the power to make a bad deal with Iran
ERNEST ISTOOK: Boycott sanctuary cities because they are unsafe
ERNEST ISTOOK: This July 4, the rockets’ red glare requires lots of red tape
What is it with the bureaucrats and our celebrations?
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ERNEST ISTOOK: Plan to wash dishes by hand
Add another $99 to the price of home dishwashers as the Department of Energy enacts new "energy-saving" regulations to comply with President Obama's agenda. It's on top of a $44 price increase from another set of dishwasher regulations in 2012.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Regulators take another run at dishwashers
It's a dirty shame what the bureaucrats are doing to our hands.
Istook: America is now the land of make believe; truth and reality got lost
The sagas of Bruce-to-Caitlyn Jenner and black? white? Rachel Dolezal prove the total craziness of political correctness. "I think therefore I am" doesn't mean imaginary things are real.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama White House's lack of transparency
Two days of congressional hearings demonstrated how the Obama White House shuts down the people's right to know what their government is doing. Even the usually liberal media are upset that President Obama is keeping the bureaucracy's inner workings concealed.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama swats free speech, gun control
Gun control and control of free speech would be combined in a new Obama administration plan that could send Second Amendment advocates to prison.
America's middle class shrinks as government suppresses opportunity
We're back-sliding. Millions of Americans tell pollsters they no longer consider themselves middle class. Almost as many of us now self-identify as "lower class or working class" instead. Blame big government for getting in the way.
ERNEST 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.
ERNEST 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 the costs onto their price tags.
ERNEST ISTOOK: Supreme Court to decide for believers what marriage is
Forget everything else you read about the Supreme Court case that could mandate same-sex marriages. All that matters is the swing vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy. He will break the expected 4-to-4 deadlock among the other justices.
