THE DAILY NEWS Specter in Tough Position on Card Check - Swanson & Bogardus, The Hill Economists Have Abandoned Principle - Hart & Zingales, WSJ Why Free Trade Trumps Protectionism - Walter Williams, Washington Times Larry Summers’ Judgment - David Henderson, Forbes.com The Bailout So Far - Holman Jenkins, Wall Street Journal Government Sets Us Up for the Next Bust - Joh......
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Hey, a few years back I was hearing a big hullabaloo on the news about something being proposed called the " Nuclear option ." Also there were ads for it all over the TV. As I remember it, there was this big campaign demanding "an up or down vote " in the Senate, the proponents saying that it was terribly unfair to allow fewer than half of the Senate to block votes. People ......
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Georges Rey , a professor of mine from grad school used to enjoy telling me to “Keep distinct distinctions distinct.” In fact, he liked saying it so much, he inscribed it into my copy of his book, but that’s another story. Libertarian seems to be an equivocal term in that it can refer to people with differing political affiliations. The common distinction made is the “Big......
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I actually had this conversation online yesterday. I’ve taken off the lady’s name, it’s immaterial. The conversation could have occurred at any time between any one of us and someone who is anti-carry, or anti-firearm. It’s a pretty standard stance on her part. I think I pretty much held my own, but, I’m wondering, what else I can use next time for defense of our......
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THE DAILY NEWS Governors Against State Bailouts - Mark Sanford & Rick Perry, WSJ A Bullish Black Friday - Brian Wesbury & Robert Stein, Forbes.com Toomey: Specter Faces Tougher Road in 2010 - Ian Swanson, The Hill U.S. Trade Community Braces for Obama Policy - A. Field, GulfShipper.com What Is Gold Telling Us? - Rich Karlgaard, Forbes.com Freedom and the Left - Thomas Sowell, T......
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(Before you finish reading this, you’ll want to sign up for this policy forum .) Ben Goddard’s most recent column in The Hill is called “ Obama Marketing Lesson ,” and he reviews how the Internet and savvy use of media energized President-Elect Obama’s campaign effort. “[S]ocial networks have returned as one of the most powerful forces in politics,&rd......
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Still more criminals are  pretending to be cops conducting violent raids on homes.  Since the police do smash in doors with little or no warning, point their weapons at residents until they lay prostrate on the floor, and deny people the opportunity to read search warrants, the lines have been badly blurred.  Kathryn Johnson was killed after she shot at intruders who turned out to be cops.......
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Jeffrey Rogers Hummel and David Henderson have responded to critics of their defense of Alan Greenspan’s monetary policy. Answering particularly the criticisms of cato adjunct scholar George Selgin, they provide further evidence for their contention that Greenspan was not pursuing an unduly loose monetary policy in the early years of this decade. As I noted before, in early November Ca......
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Learning for Liberty by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. So much to read and learn, and so little time. Thanks in no small measure to the energy that Ron Paul’s candidacy unleashed, more people than ever are eager to cut through the propaganda and uncover the truth. But where to start? And how can you get the most out of the time you have to devote to reading and study? I put together the res......
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...y 3:30 PM, Thursday, December 4, 2008 . Here’s the link to register online. ......
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To review: Social Security can be viewed, conceptually, as either a system of compulsory retirement saving, or as an intergenerational wealth transfer. It cannot, however, be viewed as both simultaneously. Its defenders must pick one paradigm or the other and run with it, lest they be rightfully dismissed as disingenuous. Furthermore, while Social Security (as a unified program of taxes and ......
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Some commenters on my post about Barack Obama’s apparent silence about Kelo v. City of New London fail to understand why his position on the case matters. After all, they say, politicians don’t have to take positions on every US Supreme Court case, do they? The problem with this reasoning is that Kelo wasn’t just any case. It drew a broader political backlash (opposed ......
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Klicka på boken. Årets presidentval här i USA har inte bara blivit en historisk vattendelare här i landet, det bör också skakat om rejält i svensk politik. För Allianspartierna har länge hämtat sina grundläggande värderingar från det republikanska partiet ända sedan Ronald Reagan på 1980-talet. När det nu visar sig vart de senaste decenniernas högervåg har lett här i USA s......
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A new generation of young people who have never heard of Ruby Ridge are now emerging from the public school system and are heading off to college and will thereafter begin their careers in business, education, journalism, government and other fields. This generation will find it hard to fathom that the federal government could have killed a boy and an unarmed woman and then tried to deceive everyo......
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DNA2009 - Digital news Affairs Bill Kauffman: My America vs. the Empire Bill Kauffman discusses anti-war conservatism. (cato Institute: Weekly Video)......
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cato Institute Robert Levy:  "Is the Bailout Constituti onal?" ; Levy says no, it is not constituti onal...... .
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The actions of a few young men in a far flung corner of the world has the potential of large scale disruptions of the economic activities in other parts of the world. On one side of the continuum there is the outright acts of terrorism like that which is unfolding in Mumbai, India. On the other side, though less disruptive but yet noteworthy are a few loosely organized young men holding the intern......
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Nouvelles En Islande, l’inflation atteint 17,1% [BBC] Le pétrole a-t-il touché le creux à 50$ ? [Les Affaires] Europe announces 200bn euro plan [BBC] Chroniques Confiance des consommateurs canadiens : grande déprime . Par Claude Picher [La Presse] The Fed: Solution or problem? . Par Richar Rahn . [Washington Post] Ressources Money, what is it and how it works......
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“Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?� : Ludwig von Mises explains the special resentment of intellectuals, in contrast to workers, by saying they mix socially with successful capitalists and so have them as a salient comparison group and are humiliated by their lesser status. However, even those intellectuals who do not mix socially are similarly resentful.......
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So, how did we get into this mess? On the consumer level, inflating the value of housing by loaning money to people who couldn’t afford it and then selling securities based on the crappy loans to duped foreigners (”Oooh, AAA MBS , what could go wrong?”), then using the home equity of the artificially inflated value of houses to buy lots of unnecessary shit and run up a......
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So Hillary Clinton is “on track” to be the nation’s top diplomat, huh?  Well, setting aside the wisdom of that decision — forget ideology; does she have both foreign policy expertise and a good working relationship with the President-elect? — it appears that there may be genuine constitutional problems with her expected nomination.  To wit, Article I, section 6, ......
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Jonah Goldberg finds “conservative complaints about Barack Obama’s public-schools hypocrisy& hellip;all a bit tedious.” Well, aside from my not having actually seen many conservati ves compl aining about Obama choosing a private school for his kids while telling the rest of us to support public schools , I find arguments like Goldberg&r squo;s ma in one tedious. Very tedious. ......
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The superintendent of the financially inept Miami-Dade Schools wants a federal bailout , and it’s hard to blame him for desiring a piece of Washington ’s  ever-bigge r Ineptitude Rewards Programs. But, as I wrote a couple of months ago  – and a professor echoes in the article about the Supt’s request — public schools are, essentiall y, consta ntly being bailed o......
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