Ernest Istook

ERNEST ISTOOK: Internet domain name extension an Obama extortion disaster

President Obama is doing for the Internet what he did for health care: making things worse. His slogan should be "Change you can deceive in."

May 27, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Today’s Indian wars are fought at the casino

America still fights Indian wars, but today these battles center not around settlers pushing their homesteads onto tribal lands but around gambling.

May 20, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: How red tape, runaway regulations wreck your budget

Runaway regulations are hurting everyday people and wrecking family budgets. It's not big companies that suffer from the $1.88 trillion annual burden of red tape that the government imposes. They add the costs onto their price tags.

May 13, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Supreme Court to decide for believers what marriage is

Forget everything else you read about the Supreme Court case that could mandate same-sex marriages. All that matters is the swing vote of Justice Anthony Kennedy. He will break the expected 4-to-4 deadlock among the other justices.

April 29, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Liberal water czars create 2015 Dust Bowl in Golden State

California's liberals are seeking scapegoats to divert attention from how that entire state may soon become another Detroit, emptying out as people flee. Scapegoats like almonds, alfalfa and meat. Really. What Big Labor did to the Motor City the environmental extremists are doing to California, threatening to create a new Dust Bowl with their misguided water policies.

April 22, 2015

Obama claims imaginary agreement with Iran

We freed up $13-billion for Iran to negotiate its nuclear weapons program. Now Obama's claims about the supposed deal turn out to be imaginary.

April 20, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama’s Internet: Anarchy, bullying and extortion

President Obama's two big decisions on the Internet are poles apart. In 2009, his Department of Commerce relinquished big chunks of America's control over the Internet to ICANN. Six years later, Mr. Obama's Federal Communications Commission now wants to dictate "fairness" by imposing so-called "net neutrality."

April 16, 2015

ISTOOK: Anarchy, bullying and extortion on Obama’s Internet

President Obama's administration has surrendered control of Internet domain names to a company that approves .sucks, .wtf as well as .porn and .xxx, allowing the private group is making huge money from the process.

April 15, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Earned Income Tax Credit’s massive fraud and waste

Most workers would be fired if they made a $1 million mistake. But our government admits to wasting at least $100 billion a year, yet nobody gets canned.

April 8, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: In war on pollution, EPA can’t admit we’re winning

Why does the Left keep expanding a war that America has already won?

April 1, 2015

Tracking our driving, Big Brother takes the wheel

Thanks to modern technology, Big Brother is bigger than ever and can monitor our movements, our driving, our communications and our finances. We need a Digital Bill of Privacy Rights to protect us from government.

March 25, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: EPA ‘showers’ the people with unwanted regulations

If you like your shower, you probably can't keep it once the Obama administration bureaucrats are done.

March 18, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Circus elephants chased out of towns by sexist PETA activism

Ringling Brothers is dropping elephants from its circus after 144 years because PETA activists got key cities to enact local laws making it impossible for handlers to control the elephants.

March 6, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: High electric bills Obama promise he will keep

American households are suffering from a little-reported part of President Obama's agenda: skyrocketing electricity costs.

March 4, 2015

Obama’s success is people’s distress: Electric bills are skyrocketing

American households are suffering from a little-reported part of President Obama’s agenda — skyrocketing electricity costs.

March 4, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Obama cements his power by redistributing your wealth

Let's get this out in the open. President Obama's agenda is to redistribute wealth, which enhances his own power. He can advance that agenda without Congress, instead acting exclusively through the executive branch. This is possible only because for decades Congress has given away power to bureaucrats.

February 25, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Millions spent illegally on Obama amnesty plan; so who is going to prison?

Some bureaucrats could end up in prison for implementing President Obama's amnesty plan for illegal aliens. Even if they don't violate the brand-new court injunction, they are accountable under a special federal statute.

February 24, 2015

Obama wants to control America even after he’s out of office

President Obama says he's pushing his agenda "harder than ever" during his final two years in office, because he's trying to set America's course for the next ten years.

February 24, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Media scoffed, but FBI confirms ISIS has its soldiers in America

National media ridiculed earlier reports because they didn't want to offend any Muslims. But now the FBI confirms that ISIS has recruited and trained people who are here in America.

February 19, 2015

ERNEST ISTOOK: Another Obama agency wants to police the Internet

This is about The Blob and how we lose our right of free speech.

February 18, 2015