IPI's Merrill Matthews warns that the impact from the Hobby Lobby decision may cause more companies to dump employees into Obamacare exchanges.

It's not often we can say the Supreme Court got three major decisions right. But this week, the Supremes ruled favorably not only for property rights and civil liberties, but also delivered a hefty bench slap on a White House power grab.

Latin American children are flooding over the border because of President Obama's promises, and IPI's Dr. Merrill Matthews warns, tragically, that may cost some of them their lives.

Russia's decision to restrict Ukraine's natural gas supplies, plus the new crisis in Iraq highlight the problems with the 40-year federal export ban on nearly all U.S.-produced crude oil and natural gas. Merrill Matthews tells Vicki McKenna that by limiting the market for those products, the government keeps energy prices artificially high, increases the political and economic influence of several bad actors, and destabilizes many of our allies.

IPI's Bartlett Cleland and Tom Giovanetti discuss two very different pieces of legislation in Congress on Internet taxes--one is a "good idea" and one "a disaster." In fact, so different are the two, why would legislators think it even made sense to marry them into one bill? In this week's podcast, we tackle the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act and the Marketplace Fairness Act.

IPI's Merrill Matthews joins nationally syndcated Janet Mefferd to discuss the latest on the crisis in Iraq, its ripple effects on gas prices, and what the U.S. can do to not only expand the global energy market, but to provide greater domestic energy security.

Crude oil and natural gas are global commodities and the U.S. needs to treat them as such. The U.S. and the world will be better off when oil and gas are driven by a free market rather than counterproductive government policies. Merrill Matthews talks with David R. Stokes, guest host for Don Kroah on WAVA-FM in Washington DC.

Was the 2009 stimulus bill successful at creating any jobs? The St. Louis Federal Reserve reports most of the jobs created were mostly government employees-- now paid on taxpayers' dime.

Merrill Matthews joins nationally syndicated talk host Jason Lewis and no topic is off-limits. From high taxes pushing U.S. companies to move overseas, to immigration reform and ending the export ban on US crude oil, Matthews covers it all.

Merrill Matthews explains on San Francisco's KSFO Morning Show that the oil export ban, imposed during the 1970s oil shortages, is out dated and counterproductive in an age of dramatically rising U.S. oil production.