The Obama Administration Wants Another Housing Bubble
More than 100 years ago, George Santayana famously warned that, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”default_blog.jpgread more
View ArticleHow Washington Profits By Pillaging America
I’ve been banging the drum for years about Washington being a racket for the benefit of politicians, cronyists, bureaucrats, contractors, lobbyists, interest groups and other...
View ArticleMessage for the Pope: Caring for Poor Isn't Communist, But Advancing Statism...
I’ve always objected when leftists engage in moral preening about how they supposedly are more compassionate.default_blog.jpgread more
View ArticleEntitlement Programs Are Turning America Into a Decrepit Welfare State
I’ve been fretting for a long time that poorly designed entitlement programs are going to turn America into a decrepit welfare state.default_blog.jpgread more
View ArticleGovernment Shutdown Theater: Republicans Should Not Surrender to Obama’s...
Notwithstanding the landslide rejection of Obama and his policies in the mid-term election, I don’t think this will produce big changes in policy over the next two years.default_blog.jpgread more
View ArticleHow Big Government Sabotages Poor People and Enriches Well-Connected Fat Cats
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View ArticleState and Local Governments Have No Fiscal Excuse for Rapacious...
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View ArticleOpenly Armed Citizens Protect Honest People from Criminals in Ferguson
(AP Photo/LM Otero, File)In the postscript of a previous column, I shared some of Ben Watson’s wise and prudent counsel about the racial unrest idefault_blog.jpgread more
View ArticleEuropean Statism Proves Why Big Government Doesn’t Work
File - Euro sign - AP Photo/Bernd KammererThe United States is burdened with some very bad policies that default_blog.jpgread more
View Article‘Progressive’ Income Tax Penalizes Productive Behavior Through Double Taxation
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View ArticlePaul Krugman, ‘Either Sloppy or Lying’
Liberal economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman (AP Photo)I’m tempted to feel a certain degree of sympathy for Paul Krugman.default_blog.jpgread more
View ArticleNo Tears for Harvard, One of the ‘Least-Sympathetic-Victims-of-Obamacare’
Harvard University (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)Shortly after Obamacare was enacted, I began to maintain a list of groups that were victimized by the law.default_blog.jpgread more
View Article‘Repealing Obamacare Wouldn’t Result in Free-Market System’
Way back in 2010, immediately after Obamacare was rammed down our throats, I put together four guiding principles for a counter-offensive.Obamacare Obama.jpgread more
View ArticleMinimum Wage Hikes Reduced Employment of Low-Skilled Workers
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View ArticleWorkers to Bear the Burden for Obama’s Class-Warfare Tax Plan
The most compelling graph I’ve ever seen was put together by Andrew Coulson, one of my colleagues at the Cato Institute.tax_man_death_small.jpgread more
View ArticleVictory Over Obama’s Tax Hike Plan Has Enormous Implications
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View ArticleAmerica’s ‘Senselessly Punitive Corporate Tax System Drives Corporations and...
(AP Photo)Last September, I wrote that America’s business tax system is a nightmareIRS-AP PHOTO_4.jpgread more
View ArticleGreece Standoff Could Create Domino-Effect of Economic and Fiscal Chaos
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View ArticleThe State Department’s Refugee Program Shouldn’t be a Terrorist-Funding...
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