by Andrew F. Quinlan | Aug 5, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller on August 4, 2016. It was announced this week that one of Elon Musk’s companies, Tesla Motors, will buy one of his other companies, SolarCity, for an all-stock deal worth $2.6 billion. The merger was first proposed...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jul 20, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller on July 18, 2016. Shortly before the massive 2010 Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law, Congress approved an amendment to the bill from Sen. Dick Durbin that had nothing to do with financial reform. It instead decreed...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 28, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Blaze on June 28, 2016. The full costs of Obamcare’s ill-advised takeover of the health care system – whether measured in dollars or lives – are still being tallied. But one last thumb in the eye of taxpayers could come from the...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 22, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Hill on June 21, 2016. The Washington Post recently featured a 4,000-word write-up of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P), a think-tank that I co-founded in 2000 and have since served as President. The report...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 17, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article appeared on Inside Sources on June 14, 2016. For years Washington has operated under the delusion that government mismanagement played no part in the financial crisis. Convinced that “greedy” Wall Street banks were entirely to blame, the then-Democratic...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Jun 10, 2016 | Opinion and Commentary
This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller on June 8, 2016. The nation is enthralled by an unusual presidential campaign season that has pretty much seen it all. One important thing that has thus far been lacking is a serious legislative agenda to get the...