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To jump-start economic growth and increase employment, the incoming Trump administration and GOP-led Congress should make reforming America's legal system a priority. Fortunately, much of it can be achieved without legislation, by reversing Obama-era administrative agency actions — though more lasting change would require congressional action. Here are three areas where the next administration can act. End the fight against arbitration Democratic Party leaders in Congress have long sought to advance legislation to curb the use of arbitration clauses in contracts, which would impose costs on all Americans but enable trial lawyers to collect substantially more fees. Yet evidence shows that, after controlling for variations in case characteristics, consumers are more likely to prevail in arbitration than in court and that there is no significant difference in awards between the two avenues.

Ford Motor Company on Tuesday announced plans to cancel the building of a $1.6 billion plant in Mexico and instead invest $700 million in a Michigan assembly plant, directly tying the decision to “pro-growth policies” championed by President-elect Donald Trump.

After public denunciations from watchdogs and criticism from President-elect Donald Trump, House Republicans reversed course and dropped plans to gut an independent agency that polices potential ethical wrongdoing by lawmakers.

A report published in the Washington Post late last week made a shocking claim that a computer code the Obama administration had tied to a Russian backed

The emerging, and dangerous, new form of crony capitalism.

Trump tweets his disapproval of Republicans' decision to prioritize gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics.

President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that if Mayor Rahm Emanuel can’t turn the tide on Chicago's soaring murder rate, Washington may need to step in.

House Republicans dropped their bid to weaken the independent Office of Congressional Ethics after President-elect Donald Trump blasted the move as counter to his call to

JASMINE LENNARD has reportedly been dropped from the upcoming series of Celebrity Big Brother after allegedly making comments about muslim terrorists on social media.

The president-elect is narrowing his short list while his advisers look beyond the current opening.

‘Well. How sad. But not really,’ wrote one Twitter liberal.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, said the Russian government was not the source of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign that his organization released during the 2016 presidential race.

Liberals are panicking about the fact that President-elect Donald Trump will be able to fill four vacancies on the left-leaning Ninth Circuit.

Progressives despise intellectual diversity on campus but support and implicitly condone a diversity of values that are otherwise perfectly antithetical to i...

Happy New Year! Meet the 2017 membership of the U.N. Human Rights Council, elected by the United Nations with the mandate to ?uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of human rights?: Saudi Arabia  Expertise in human rights: Death sentences for apostasy and adultery; corporal punishment including flogging and amputation; judiciary controlled by regime; beheading more peoeple than ever before; arbitrary arrests of dissenters and minorities; no freedom of speech; jails blogger Raif Badawi. Venezuela  Expertise in human rights: Widespread arbitrary detention; imprisonment of opposition leaders; intimidation of journalists; torture; policies causing mass hunger and health catastrophe. China Expertise in human rights: Denial of freedom of speech, religion, and association; extrajudicial killings; repression of civil society; discrimination against Tibetans and other minorities. Cuba Expertise in human rights: Systematic violation of freedom of speech, assembly, press; elections are neither free nor fair; threats and violence against dissidents. Iraq Expertise in human rights: Pro-government militias commit widespread human rights abuses, including assassinations, enforced disappearances, property destruction. Qatar Expertise in human rights: Inhuman conditions for 1.4 million migrant workers; women denied basic rights to equality, denied right to be elected to legislative council; finances ISIS and Hamas. Burundi Expertise in human rights: Police killings of peaceful protesters; government forces commit summary executions, targeted assassinations, enforced disappearances; arbitrary detention, torture, sexual violence; genocide warning. Bangladesh Expertise in human rights: Extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, killing of secular bloggers by Islamist groups, restrictions on online speech and the press, early and forced marriage, gender-based violence, abysmal working conditions and labor rights. United Arab Emirates Expertise in human rights: No political parties, no option to ?

Julian Assange says it's "impossible" to know if WikiLeaks influenced the election.

Assange tells Hannity that his sources for DNC and Podesta emails was not the Russian government, in an exclusive interview on Fox News Tuesday 10PM EST.

I first read Thomas Sowell in college — no thanks to my college. At the majority of America’s institutions of “higher learning,” reading Thomas Sowell was a subversive act in the early 1990s when I was a student. It remains so today. Why? Because the prolific libertarian economist’s vast body of work is a clarion rejection of all that the liberal intelligentsia hold dear. Among the Left’s most corrosive ideas is the concept of perpetual and permanent racial victimhood, which social engineers pretend to rectify through federally mandated, taxpayer-subsidized preferential policies. Sowell’s groundbreaking academic analyses of these programs in the U.S. and around the world exposed how elites profit mightily at the expense of the alleged beneficiaries of government-coerced affirmative action. The grand rhetoric of diversity masks the true intent and actual impact of current racially discriminatory “solutions” to past racial discrimination: solidifying the power of the few over the many. As Sowell put it succinctly in one of the first pieces of his I came across in the journal The Public Interest: “Live people are being sacrificed because of what dead people did.” In that essay, and much more deeply in his book Preferential Policies: An International Perspective, published that year, Sowell explored the “mismatch” effect in the ivory tower. While prestigious schools such as the University of California, Berkeley, congratulated themselves for manufacturing “wonderfully diverse” student bodies, ostensibly to make up for the legacy of American slavery (which Sowell pointed out was in no way unique to either the American South or blacks), he reported that more than 70 percent of black students at Berkeley failed to graduate. “What they’ve effectively done” by lowering academic standards by race in the name of social justice, Sowell explained in an interview with C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb, “is rented these bodies for window dressing for a few years, and then, when they’re through with them, they’re put aside and a new bunch of bodies are brought in.” Who benefits? Not the students, but the bean-counting administrators and political-correctness marketers at Berkeley — Diversity, Inc. — who exploit minority students for their glossy admissions brochures. The other vested interest? Tenured radicals in what Sowell called the “black-studies establishment” who “need students to be in their classrooms” to justify their paychecks. Sowell, who grew up black and poor in Harlem, worked as a delivery man, served in the U.S. Marines, graduated from Harvard Law School, earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Chicago, and fully realized the folly of Marxism during a stint as a federal-government intern, spurned identity-politics collectivism. He embraced time-tested, transcendent principles grounded in the reality of how things really are. “Fortunately, even during my period of Marxism I had respect for evidence and logic,” Sowell told an interviewer in 2004, “so it was only a matter of time before my Marxism began to unravel as I compared what actually happened in history to what was supposed to happen.” Chromosomes and skin color and partisan loyalty didn’t dictate his thinking. He embraced time-tested, transcendent principles grounded in the reality of how things really are — as opposed to the fantastical imaginings of what he trenchantly called the “Vision of the Anointed.” Sowell’s book on that subject (published in 1995, the same year the Anointed One, Barack Obama, emerged on the national scene with his fabrication-filled memoir, Dreams from My Father) thoroughly dismantled the tyranny and tactics of self-described “progressives” whose control-freak narcissism is wrapped in good intentions and false narratives. Sowell’s assessments were rooted not in fear or hatred or fanaticism or moral superiority, but in empirical evidence. He judged outcomes, not oration. He didn’t make excuses. He made sense. “In the anointed we find a whole class of supposedly ‘thinking people’ who do remarkably little thinking about substance and a great deal of verbal expression,” Sowell observed. He continued: In order that this relatively small group of people can believe themselves wiser and nobler than the common herd, we have adopted policies which impose heavy costs on millions of other human beings, not only in taxes, but also in lost jobs, social disintegration, and a loss of personal safety. Seldom have so few cost so much to so many. In another giant contribution to contemporary political and policy analysis, Sowell’s 1999 tome The Quest for Cosmic Justice addressed the abject failures of those who seek to cure all inequities, inequalities, disparities, and ills through government intervention. He summed up his findings thusly: 1. The impossible is not going to be achieved. 2. It is a waste of precious resources to try to achieve it. 3. The devastating costs and social dangers that go with these attempts to achieve the impossible should be taken into account. #related#The former leftist playwright David Mamet, in his 2008 manifesto “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,” cited his exposure to Sowell, whom he dubbed “our greatest contemporary philosopher,” as a critical factor in his conversion. Whether tackling the “bait and switch media,” the “organized noisemakers,” or the lawless enablers of “social disintegration,” Thomas Sowell’s dozens of academic books and thousands of newspaper columns have sparked generations of his readers across the political spectrum to think independently and challenge imposed visions. Asked once how he would like to be remembered, Sowell responded: “Oh, heavens, I’m not sure I want to be particularly remembered. I would like the ideas that I’ve put out there to be remembered.” Mission accomplished. Though it has been decades since he taught in a formal classroom, his students are legion. Thank you, Professor Sowell. — Michelle Malkin is a senior editor at Conservative Review. Her e-mail address is [email protected]. Copyright © 2016 Creators.com

President-elect Donald Trump attacked General Motors, claiming the auto giant is making a Chevy Cruze model in Mexico and then sending them to U.S. dealers tax free.

The United States and Russia today agreed to resume bilateral military cooperation, which has been on hold since the conflict between Russia and Georgia erupted in August.

The suspect had contacted the "Islamic State" militant group, but said he attempted to defraud them, prosecutors said. The Syrian planned to disguise vehicles as police patrol cars and fill them with explosives.

A few of our more perceptive government officials seem to realize they’ve been choking off entrepreneurship.

We have previously discussed how some criminal cases highlight the porous border that we share with Mexico. The most recent example is Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, 38, who is accused of raping a 13-ye…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico's new governor was sworn in Monday, promising an immediate push for statehood in a territory facing a deep economic crisis.

A federal agency is worried the iconic symbol of freedom dating back to the Revolutionary War might be racist, and may ban it from the workplace.