The Cato Institute’s Chris Preble offers some reasoned perspective: McCain, Thornberry, and Cotton want much more military spending because they believe the world is too dangerous, and the U.S. military is too small to deal with the dangers. But today’s threats are relatively modest and manageable compared with our recent past. And while the U.S. […]
Archives for March 2015
“Everything Not Forbidden Is Compulsory”
“Everything Not Forbidden Is Compulsory” T.H. White “It would be transformative if everybody voted,” told Mr. Obama to a crowd in Cleveland, Ohio, this week. So does that means that we are going to need more IRS agents? Peggy Noonan writes in the WSJ about the strangeness of President Obama’s words. Would it mean […]
Perverse Incentives for Long-Term Dependency
That’s how Cato Institute senior fellow Dan Mitchell describes the mix of high taxes and high spending on welfare that stunt the assimilation of immigrants to the developed world. Dan writes: So what’s the problem? Why are immigrants failing to prosper? Nima suggests that government policies are the problem, creating perverse incentives for long-term dependency. […]
Pricing Minorities Out of Jobs
“It is not a breakthrough on the frontiers of knowledge that minimum-wage laws reduce employment opportunities for the young and the unskilled of any age,” writes Thomas Sowell in NRO. Check out the unemployment rates in such countries as Spain, Greece and South Africa where unemployment rates hover around 25 percent. Why? Each of these […]
Nasdaq Missing the Boat: Part II
While the Nasdaq has nearly reached its all-time highs in nominal terms, when adjusted for inflation, the index has actually fallen in real value by 33.1% from its peak on 3/10/2000. See Part I here.
Emergency Planning Can Save Your Family’s Life: Part II (2013)
Originally posted April 29, 2013. The recent Boston bombings locked down one of America’s landmark cities for days. The disaster was perpetrated by just two relatively poorly equipped and prepared kids. At the same time, anti-Second Amendment liberals, led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Mario Cuomo of New York and Governor Martin O’Malley of […]
Crude-Oil Stocks at Eight-Decade High!
The Wall Street Journal’s Liam Denning lays out America’s supply glut. “Commercial crude-oil stocks in the U.S. stand at their highest level in at least eight decades. Right now, it is very profitable to take barrels, store them, and sell them forward.” “Before the spigot of oil gets shut off, the spigot of capital will […]
Burning the Constitution?
“Burning the Constitution of the United States … cannot be a part of our national energy policy,” said Harvard constitutional law professor Lawrence H. Tribe before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. According to the Washington Times, Mr. Tribe told the Committee on Tuesday that “the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to limit greenhouse-gas emissions far […]
National Sunshine Week
It’s National Sunshine Week, a time dedicated to fighting for government transparency. Open government advocate Adam Andrzejewski writes in the Washington Times that increased transparency should start with the federal pension system. Imagine if you could review your congressman’s pension, including amount contributed, years to break even and total payout to life expectancy. Or what if […]
Netanyahu and Likud Retain Israel Leadership
Daniel Larison of The American Conservative writes of Netanyahu’s victory: According to the early exit polls, Netanyahu and Likud have stormed back to win 27 or 28 seats, which puts them at roughly the same number of seats as their main competition in the Zionist Union. There are still more votes yet to be counted […]
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