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- The Double Standard About Journalists' Bias - November 4, 2009
- I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud. Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, "Critics have leaped on Mr....
- 'One-Size-Fits-All' Fits None - November 1, 2009
- Much of what government does is based on the premise that people can't do things for themselves. So government must do it for them. More often than not, the result is a...
- A Nobel Prize for Showing That Freedom Works - October 21, 2009
- Pundits and politicians act as if government can solve almost any problem. At the slightest hint of trouble, the ruling class reflexively assumes that knowledgeable,...
- What's Michael Moore Talking About? - October 14, 2009
- Michael Moore is confused. His new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story," begins by suggesting that all was well until Ronald Reagan became president and cut the top 90...
- It's the Spending, Stupid - October 7, 2009
- "The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," George Bernard Shaw once said. For a socialist, Shaw demonstrated good sense with...
- Success No Matter What - September 30, 2009
- This Friday, September's job-loss total will be announced. Whatever the numbers, administration officials surely will tell us that life is better -- because of them. "We...
- Reporters Should Be Upfront About Political Beliefs - September 23, 2009
- When I announced last week that I was leaving ABC for Fox, some readers complained about my "bias." I replied: "Every reporter has political beliefs. The difference is...
- I'm Moving to Fox - September 16, 2009
- It's time for a change. Next month, I leave ABC News to start a weekly one-hour prime time show with Fox News. When I announced that on my blog...
- Obama's Speech Tonight - September 9, 2009
- I wish President Obama would say to Congress: Members of Congress, I ask you to address our fiscal emergency. In 1964, President Johnson won a landslide victory -- quite...
- Economic Illiterates in Washington - September 2, 2009
- The economic illiterates in Washington are so impressed with the "success" of Cash for Clunkers that they're readying Cash for Clunker Appliances. The ludicrous...
- Geithner Moral Hazard - ABC News - August 28, 2009
- Debate Shows How Little Obama Understands - August 26, 2009
- "Choice, competition, reducing costs -- those are the things that I want to see accomplished in this health reform bill," President Obama told talk-show host Michael...
- The Ugly Truth of Obamacare - August 19, 2009
- False charges about Obamacare don't help. Like the end-of-life tempest. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin popularized the term "death panels." She said: "The America I know...
- Big Business Goes Big for Health-Care Reform - August 12, 2009
- "What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand,"...
- Impossible Promises - August 5, 2009
- I keep reading about health-care "reform," but I have yet to see anyone explain how the government can make it easier for more people to obtain medical services, control...
- Government-Run Health Care Means Waiting in Line - ABC - August 3, 2009
- A Minimum Wage Means Minimum Jobs - July 29, 2009
- The media are never better at displaying their economic illiteracy than when they report on the minimum wage. "Workers got a raise on Friday when the federal minimum...
- Arrogance - July 22, 2009
- It's crazy for a group of mere mortals to try to design 15 percent of the U.S. economy. It's even crazier to do it by August. Yet that is what some members of Congress...
- Health-Care Competition - July 15, 2009
- The statist establishment would love a single-payer health-care system like Canada's if it were politically achievable. Barack Obama said that if we were starting from...
- Insurance Is No Answer - July 8, 2009
- Health care "reformers" keep talking about getting us more health insurance. Then they talk about cutting costs. This is contradictory nonsense. Insurance, whether...
- "Better" Health Care? - July 1, 2009
- President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch. In England, health care is "free" -- as long as you don't mind...
- The Nirvana Fallacy - June 24, 2009
- President Obama has (http://tinyurl.com/mdemnc) announced his "sweeping overhaul of the financial regulatory system." We can debate endlessly whether the Constitution...
- A Refreshing Spin on Cable TV - June 17, 2009
- Few of us had heard of Glenn Beck a few years ago. Now the conservative talk-jock is everywhere. His radio show reaches eight million people. He's performing live before...
- Competition Would Save Medicine, Too - June 10, 2009
- Competition so regularly brings us better stuff -- cars, phones, shoes, medicine -- that we've come to expect it. We complain on the rare occasion the supermarket...
- Pay for Your Own Rescue - June 3, 2009
- I have something to say to all those people who take dumb risks and then expect the rest of us to pick up the tab: Pay for your own stupid mistakes. Almost every day...
- Pregnant Women Have No Right to Their Jobs - May 27, 2009
- Sales consultant Holly Waters says she was a top performer for the drug maker Novartis. But when she was about go on maternity leave, she was fired. "I was...
- The Medicare Ponzi Scheme - May 20, 2009
- Isn't it high time America did less for the elderly? A politically incorrect question for sure. But Medicare has an astounding $34-trillion unfunded liability. And...
- Eat the Tigers! - May 13, 2009
- In India, China and Russia, there were once 100,000 wild tigers. Today, only a few thousand survive. They've disappeared because poachers kill them to sell crushed tiger...
- Steroids Hysteria - May 6, 2009
- With the return of baseball and a new book on Alex Rodriguez released this week, a fresh round of congressional posturing about steroids is upon us. Why is it Congress's...
- Government Help Hurts - April 29, 2009
- "Rate hikes and late fee traps have to end. No more fine print, no more confusing terms and conditions", said President Obama last week when advocating another...
- Prohibition Spawns Drug Violence - April 22, 2009
- Visiting Mexico last week, President Obama said he will fight drug violence: "I will not pretend that this is Mexico's responsibility alone. The demand for these drugs...
- Simplify the Rules - April 15, 2009
- The Obama administration says it will propose immigration reform next month. I wonder what they'll do. As a libertarian, I'm for...
- The Universal Pre-K Scam - April 8, 2009
- Mia Levi has. She told me, "This whole thing is a scam." Levi runs six preschools. I thought she'd favor the program, since she'd collect easy...
- Sell the Roads! - April 1, 2009
- It's happening. Private road builders are doing it. They built a double-decker underground highway in Paris. A 45-minute trip now takes 10 minutes. Three...
- The War on Drugs Is Idiotic - March 26, 2009
- The federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized 30 pounds of marijuana. Sheriff Pat Hedges said the facts were clear, "Charlie Lynch was making a...
- Defending the Market from Within Liberal Media - Reason - March 21, 2009
- Making It - March 18, 2009
- And author Barbara Ehrenreich won fame by claiming that it's almost impossible for an entry-level worker to make it in America. She wrote "Nickel and Dimed,"...
- The Fatal Conceit - March 11, 2009
- If someone expresses skepticism, Obama and other political leaders suggest that economists are unanimous in believing that government spending is the only...
- Obama the Efficient Goes to Washington - March 4, 2009
- And he's making progress. "[W]e have already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade." How will he do it? Here's an...
- Judging Obama - February 25, 2009
- If the gain is in the private sector, Obama's boosters will claim credit on the basis of the "multiplier effect." It's a favorite theory of politicians and...