Mike Whalen is President and CEO of The Heart of America Group which designs, builds and operates hotels, restaurants and commercial real estate throughout the Midwest. He is also a member of the Job Creators Alliance, a group of current and former CEOs committed to defending the free enterprise system. More information can be found at: http://jobcreatorsalliance.org http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelWhalen http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelWhalen TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama raised some eyebrows in saying "I've approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his." While... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelWhalen/2012/03/02/stop_the_regulation dda466e8-6bab-417d-b40e-a85dd247a16e Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:01:00 GMT Elizabeth Warren, liberal candidate for the senate in Massachusetts, recently declared that nobody succeeds on their own in the country. This is true. There are always many people involved in any success. But she... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelWhalen/2011/12/01/elizabeth_warrens_upside_down_argument 8cfd5d46-4c40-4b0a-85d4-791ec67502c9 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:29:00 GMT Recently, Jan Eberly, the assistant secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, wrote a post that essentially amounted to a defense of Washington's over-regulation, saying to small business owners and entrepreneurs... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelWhalen/2011/10/27/washington_to_small_business_no_problem_here e8f1eeea-12ef-4643-9f8f-71c98204680b Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:18:00 GMT Politicians love to extol the virtues of small business and praise the entrepreneurs who take risks to create jobs - when it's politically expedient for them to do so. But when the political winds change, the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelWhalen/2011/08/08/biting_the_very_hands_that_feed_us b49fe93a-0d0e-4e11-9be2-54e11a2ddbbe Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:00:00 GMT Can you imagine a day in our country when the average household is rich? I can. In fact, if the proper pro-growth policies are pursued our kids and grandkids can actually be what is today considered rich. Let's do the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelWhalen/2011/05/09/we_all_can_be_"rich" 8a17bf78-5a5b-4b47-9f1a-8464605d7e61 Mon, 09 May 2011 19:56:00 GMT