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Behold, a good idea from Europe: Spending in Switzerland can't increase by more than trendline tax revenue.

Henry Hazlitt about the effects of taxation on investment, in "Economics in One Lesson," 1946.

In studies from the U.S. to Sweden, pay discrimination can't explain the disparity. Women earn less because they work fewer hours.

The Fed's near-zero interest rate policy has punished savers without producing a strong recovery. Two bills in Congress would rein in the central bank.

In a new book, emeritus professor of psychology at Harvard, Jerome Kagan, assesses the state of his discipline, arguing for important changes in attitude and practice. Carol Tavris reviews.

Are presidential landslides impossible now?

Sen. Marco Rubio takes an internationalist view in a foreign policy speech he makes for the direction America.

The Republic: Group questions constitutionality of middle-of-the-night 'wake up calls' by Richmond police by Larry O'Dell:

Richmond police are violating residents' constitutional rights by waking them in the middle of the night with a knock on the door to admonish them for leaving valuables in plain sight in their parked cars, a civil liberties group said Wednesday.

The Charlottesville-based Rutherford Institute said in a letter to Police Chief Bryan Norwood that the department's new "Wake Up Call" initiative invades residents' privacy and infringes on their Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable police intrusions. The program also heightens the risk of a violent confrontation between police and an alarmed resident, the institute said.

"The recent Trayvon Martin incident from Florida should serve as a stark warning of how the fear and misunderstanding of a homeowner can turn a benign situation into tragedy involving loss of life," John W. Whitehead, executive director of the Rutherford Institute, wrote in the letter.

Jim DeMint says companies shouldn't have to go hat in hand to ask Congress to free them from tariffs on raw materials

Newt Gingrich left the Republican presidential campaign with a mixed legacy and a campaign deep in debt.

Will young American voters be as enthusiastic about President Obama's re-election as they were about his candidacy four years ago, when 66% of 18- to 29-year-olds favored him over John McCain?

Law.com: Ohio Court Addresses Text Messages and the Fourth Amendment by Joshua A. Enge:

The question of who can challenge a search of cell phone records was before an Ohio court on Aug. [sic: April] 13. The case, from the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Sixth District, is State v. Young.

This case started with a missing 17-year-old girl. The police began to suspect that the defendant knew where she was. So they obtained his cell phone records from Verizon Wireless, by submitting a single page Emergency Request Form. The police also obtained the 17-year-old girl's cell phone records with the consent of her mother.

Newt Gingrich will officially end his bid for the Republican presidential nomination and formally express his support for Mitt Romney next week, two sources close to Gingrich tell CNN.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency that enforces the federal job discrimination laws has ruled for the first time that transgender people are protected from bias in the workplace.

In a groundbreaking decision late last week, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a refusal to hire or otherwise discriminate on the ...

The Supreme Court will decide whether Arizona's immigration legislation violates federal authority. Kate Bolduan reports.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate committee Wednesday that she retains full confidence in Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan in the wake of the alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia that has resulted in nine members resigning or being forced out of the agency.

John Edwards' corruption trial takes a turn with the testimony of former aide Andrew Young. CNN's Joe Johns reports.

President Obama's opponents like nothing more than tying him to a socialist Europe, the bogeyman of today's American right. Whatever the merits of their claims policy-wise, they might be onto something from a campaign perspective.

A look back at Newt Gingrich in his own words from the campaign trail.