The European Union is planning to tax all airlines that travel to and from the 27 EU nations based on the amount of carbon emissions they produce.  The tax, to be collected beginning in 2013 for prior year emissions, will be calculated based on the length of each flight. The farther the airlines travel, the heftier the tax.

With its planning reforms, the Government is betraying the heritage that so many have fought to preserve.

As required by the Dodd-Frank Act, the FDIC and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) to implement the "Living Will" requirements of Section 165(d).

Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense automatically faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that america's civilian and military leaders have cadidly described as "devastating" and "very high risk."

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander fears attack against Iran and warns Hezbollah not to attack Israel for fear of reprisal

At this AEI event, Taro Kono (LDP) will offer his vision for what Japan needs to win its future, followed by a panel discussion with AEI and Japanese scholars.

Let entrepreneurs compete vigorously to pump innovations into the marketplace without government's attempting to pick winners and losers. Otherwise we are setting the stage for another bubble.

China's "one child policy" has already driven China's birth rate below the replacement level in the name of accelerating the country's economic development.