Even now, after so many words have been written about the Affordable Care Act, it is distressing to realize that had just one Senate Democrat opposed Obamacare, the law would not have passed the Senate as it did. Just one nay would have forced improvements in the law, making Obamacare far less destructive than it […]
Archives for October 2014
VIDEO: War without Debate
From Cato Institute: Featuring Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute; and Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by John Maniscalco, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute. When Congress authorized the arming and training of Syrian moderates to combat ISIS, it explicitly stated that this action should not […]
Vietnam Shocker from Cato’s Dan Mitchell
You will not believe what you are about to read on how countries around the world think about free markets. Really quite astounding! Read Cato Institute Senior Fellow Dan Mitchell’s full review here: Every so often, I share polling data from other nations that is either encouraging or puzzling. Looking through the archives, here are […]
80,000 New Rules and Regulations?
Switzerland, Hong Kong and Singapore have higher incomes per capita and lower unemployment rates than we have in the United States. Yet each of these countries is able to function with far fewer regulations, lower taxes and smaller government. Richard W. Rahn, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, points out in the Washington Times, that […]
McCain and Graham on the Wrong Track
Here W. James Antle III analyzes the reasons behind resurgent interventionism in the GOP. Republican hawks have regained some of their swagger. Lindsey Graham is talking with a straight face about running for president. Stephen Hayes opened a piece in the Weekly Standard by claiming, “The Republican flirtation with dovish noninterventionism is over. It wasn’t much […]
Ebola isn’t a Spending Problem
As you can see money isn’t the issue at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), as Democrats will have you believe. Big government is the killer as Cato’s Chris Edwards illustrates here: In an editorial today, the Wall Street Journal discusses Democratic complaints linking Ebola with supposedly falling spending on the Centers for Disease Control […]
Thoughts on the Markets
Volatility has picked up in financial markets in recent weeks. It is still mostly noise at this point, but the sell-off has done damage to the technical picture of the market. The NYSE Advance/Decline line for stocks is in the tank, key moving average levels, support levels, and trend channels have been breached by various […]
“Forget About Oil, Israel, and Terrorism.”
Cato Institute’s Justin Logan explains the world’s most dysfunctional region by saying “the Middle East, from a military point of view, is little more than a waste of time.” The amount we’re paying now to fight terrorism—roughly $100 billion per year—is simply crazy. If someone ran a hedge fund assessing risk the way the U.S. government has responded to terrorism, […]
Millions Paid to Influence American Foreign Policy
The UAE, as you read here, spends more to influence American foreign policy than any other country on earth. Do Americans benefit from having such a pot stirred? It is time America disengaged from the Middle East and the Muslim world in general. Let these countries fight their own ancient battles. Our national security is […]
Guess How Many Missiles Iraq Wants
Defense Industry Daily reports that the war in Iraq has been using up the country’s supply of Hellfire missiles. These laser-guided missiles are produced by Hellfire Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin. Iraq has been firing them from its fleet of AC-208B Combat Caravan prop planes, but may be requesting a large order of […]
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