Richard Brenan  

In 1947 organized labor spent today’s equivalent of $11 million opposing the Slave Labor Act. The act is better known today as Taft-Hartley. Despite the union’s rant, it was designed to provide protection against abusive and often violent labor unions. Now on the 70th anniversary of that law, Congress is again poised to realign employment […]

Last week, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg made headlines for her Mother’s Day post calling for a minimum wage increase. “It’s long past time,” she claimed, “to raise the federal minimum wage.” That’s easy for Ms. Sandberg to say. Her company wouldn’t be affected by such a wage hike. Facebook made an astounding $10 billion in […]

Despite producing huge amounts of value for society, businesses are among the most vilified institutions in America. This contradiction plays out in real time as the media-activist complex treats businesses as evils to be tolerated – provided they comply with their regulatory and tax agenda – rather than a good to be celebrated. What’s worse […]