What do California, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland and Minnesota have in common? They are all blue states that have adopted a strategy of raising taxes on their wealthy residents. But almost all of these blue states lag behind the national average in growth of jobs and incomes. As Stephen Moore, asks, “So, if income […]
Archives for April 2015
#2 Largest Employer
Wal-Mart is the largest civilian employer. Guess who’s number two? The post office. The USPS employs 600,000. My friend Chris Edwards at Cato explains: For more than a century, the federal government has pursued a misguided witch hunt against perceived monopolies in the private sector. But in a glaring hypocrisy, Congress has long protected one of the […]
Best 20th Century President?
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell offers Calvin Coolidge as a best bet, as would I. Dan also cites passages from Thomas Jefferson, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Regan as examples of the thinking of good American presidents. And Dan suggests that we not forget the principled words of Presidents Madison, Pierce and Cleveland. On the opposite […]
Is the Age of Aircraft Carriers Over?
Matthew Fay at the Niskanen Center puts together some compelling analysis on whether or not the aircraft carrier fleet deserves to be prioritized in the budget given new threats against it, and possibly superior alternatives. Earlier this week, Senators John McCain and Jack Reed, respectively the chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services […]
WSJ Firing Rand Paul Blanks
Americans need to know from the top that the editorial page of the WSJ has, at least from my perspective, more than a whiff of attachment to the original Defense Planning Guidance (DPG). You know, the anything goes global hegemon concept initially kicked off in draft form in 1992 by Dick Cheney aids Scooter Libby, […]
Rand Paul—Libertarian-ish?
David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, writes that Rand Paul, “unlike his father, is not running for president to educate and mobilize. He is running to win.” Furthermore, whether Rand Paul is a libertarian or not is not relevant. Libertarians are not always in lock-step agreement with one another on many issues. […]
Scrap the IRS
You’re probably not surprised, but I’d like to see the tax-code and the IRS scrapped. My friend Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at Cato, explains the current mess here: The larger story is how the huge welfare system run by the IRS is dwarfing its traditional role of collecting taxes. In 2015, IRS […]
Volvo Ocean Race
Leg 5 of the Volvo Ocean Race from Auckland, New Zealand to Itajai, Brazil is over. The fasted leg so far. The boats sailed about 7,300nm in 18 days, a leg to remember after a glorious rounding of Cape Horn. All teams have battled severe challenges to find safe harbour in the Brazilian port of […]
A10 Thunderbolt Warthog Will Attack ISIS
Originally posted December 15, 2014. From Defenseone.com: The House Armed Services Committee voted to adopt an amendment that keeps the Air Force’s contentious A-10 “Warthog” aircraft flying through the next fiscal year. The amendment passed through committee late Wednesday with a 41-20 bipartisan vote. It will be funded by moving $635 million over to the Overseas […]
Parlez-Vous Francais?
Originally posted March 25, 2014. French—for centuries the language of culture, diplomacy, the arts, the educated. But French today is a language not spoken mostly by the people of France. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s fastest-growing areas, the language is also growing fast. According to one projection, by 2050, French, rather […]
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