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- "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...
- Real Jobs Create Wealth - February 19, 2009
- Its economic significance was not lost on that great advocate of full employment through public works, John Maynard Keynes. The British economist, so in...
- Making a Bad Bill Worse - February 11, 2009
- But some members of his party were elected on protectionist platforms, and they are not about to blow this chance to reward their union and industrial constituencies....
- We Can't Spend Our Way to Prosperity - February 4, 2009
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks that hundreds of millions of dollars for family-planning services will stimulate the economy. My colleague George...
- The College Scam - January 28, 2009
- But for three years she failed to find a decent job. Now she holds a low-level desk job doing work she says she could have done straight out of high school....
- Recession Doesn't Mean We Should Panic - Weekly Standard - January 25, 2009
- Anything That's Peaceful - January 22, 2009
- Choice is good. As a libertarian, I'm all over choice. But strangely, today, liberals are mostly about what Americans should not be allowed to choose. ...
- A False Sense of Security - January 14, 2009
- Notice the disconnect. Regulation failed, so we need more regulation. I see it differently. Regulation failed, so let's try free markets. That would be a...
- Madoff is a Piker - January 7, 2009
- Political leaders say Madoff's alleged crimes show what's wrong with the country. President-elect Obama said the "massive fraud that was made possible in...
- Caroline Kennedy Would Fit Perfectly in the Senate - December 31, 2008
- Zillions of people may rant that Caroline Kennedy lacks what it takes to be a senator, but I think she's qualified. After all, what does a senator do? ...
- Arrogant Conceit - December 24, 2008
- So they will "transform our economy." Obama's nearly trillion-dollar plan will not merely repair bridges, fill potholes and fix up schools; it will also...
- The Scandal is What's Legal - December 17, 2008
- As The New York Times reported, "$700 billion ... seemed to be an ocean of money. But after one of the biggest lobbying free-for-alls in memory, it suddenly...
- Federal Deficit is Cause for Worry - NH Union Leader - December 14, 2008
- Do Worry About the Deficit - December 10, 2008
- Obama hasn't put a price tag on his stimulus package yet, but speculation begins at $500 billion, with some people -- like Paul Krugman, the recent...
- Government Sets Us Up for the Next Bust - December 3, 2008
- The total federal commitment to date is over $7 trillion. The Fed had given up trying to make it easier for banks to lend to each. Now, the Times...
- The Big Three Should Stand on Their Own Feet - November 26, 2008
- The auto heads tried to pin their problems on the general economic decline. They also said their companies have gone far in working to turn themselves...
- Government 'Fixes' Slow Recovery - November 19, 2008
- First he was going to buy "toxic" mortgage-based assets from banks. A few days later, taking his lead from the Europeans, Paulson decided that...
- Progress Doesn't Come from Washington - November 12, 2008
- The infatuated chattering classes now demand "action" on the economy. They use positive words like "bold steps." The insufferable New York Times suggests the choice is...
- Who Will Run America? - November 5, 2008
- "That has to be a joke -- or a misunderstanding," said George Mason University economist Walter Williams on my recent TV special, "John Stossel's Politically...
- A Duty Not To Vote? - October 29, 2008
- But wait. Is that really a good idea? Many kids don't know much. At a HeadCount concert, "20/20" (http://tinyurl.com/47qe8q) asked some future voters, "How...
- Unappreciated Spontaneous Order - October 22, 2008
- Try this thought experiment suggested by economist Daniel Klein of George Mason University (http://tinyurl.com/elf8n). Imagine you had never seen a skating...