How This GOP Governor Cut His State's Unemployment Rate in Half

Feb. 11, 2016
Good morning from Washington, which rarely meets a regulation or subsidy it doesn't like. How did Florida turn itself around without such ingredients? Gov. Rick Scott tells Melissa Quinn. New Jersey dumped a snow-shoveling license, and Heritage Foundation legal analyst Jason Snead celebrates. Twitter monitoring opinion? Heritage fellow Mike Gonzalez has a few words. Plus: A senator wants to keep women out of the draft. And illegal immigrants had access to $750 million in Obamacare tax credits.
News How This GOP Governor Cut His State's Unemployment Rate in Half When Florida Gov. Rick Scott took over as the Sunshine State's chief executive in 2011, the state's economy was struggling—unemployment hovered around 11 percent, Florida's tourism industry was suffering and the state had added $5.2 billion to its debt. Watch the Interview
Commentary What This NYT Writer Got Wrong on Supreme Court Case Challenging Obama's Executive Actions In a recent op-ed, New York Times writer Linda Greenhouse takes the Supreme Court justices to task for the "startling" action of asking the Obama administration to address whether its deferred-action immigration program violates the Constitution. Read More
Commentary Is Twitter Censoring Non-Politically Correct Viewpoints? The folks running Twitter may be too young to have heard of George Orwell, or perhaps they simply do not care that their new advisory council sounded frighteningly Orwellian. Read More
News $750 Million in Obamacare Tax Credits May Have Gone to Illegal Immigrants A Senate report "found that the Internal Revenue Service lacks an effective plan to recoup these improperly awarded funds." Read More
News Why Mike Lee Wants to Keep Women Out of the Draft "We simply can't trust this president or the courts to honor the law and protect our daughters," Sen Mike Lee told The Daily Signal. Read More
Commentary Finally, New Jersey Stopped Requiring People to Get a License to Shovel Snow Previously, New Jersey required permits that cost would-be shovelers anywhere from $200 to $450 in order to go door-to-door offering their services. Read More
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