The government already pays more than half of every dollar spent on health care in the U.S. As Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains here, thanks to Obamacare, government-run health care may already be a reality in far more ways than most of us realize. With little fanfare, Vermont is preparing to become the first state […]
A Liberal War on Poor Children—Closing Charter Schools
In California, teachers unions and their allies fight to close off educational options even though poor Latino kids attending a charter school in southeast L.A. vastly outperform children in neighborhood public schools. Allysia Finley explains at The Wall Street Journal. According to L.A. County Board of Education member Doug Boyd, the district arguably acted illegally […]
A War on Meaningless Statistics
Read here how Obama is firing up racial and gender resentments to get out the vote. His policy is deepening the national divide by carving the electorate into blocs and inflaming racial and other tensions. You can tell it’s an election year because so many noncrises are suddenly urgent priorities. Real median household income is […]
Campaign Spending Increases Voter Knowledge
Cato Institute’s Trevor Burrus explains how campaign spending is actually helpful to voters. Imagine, writes Mr. Burrus, that contributions were limited to, say, $50 or $100. How long would it take a new candidate to amass enough money to get his or her name and ideals out there to challenge an entrenched incumbent? One study […]
Obamacare—a Gigantic Wealth Transfer
Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner explains the pitfalls of government dependency and why—when the welfare state becomes ever more unaffordable—it is bad for taxpayers and economic growth. As Margaret Thatcher reportedly said, “Eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Counting government employees, contractors and recipients of government programs, more than half of Americans receive at […]
For Amazon and Bezos, the Sky Is Not the Limit
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is committed to what Jeff calls Kaizen, the Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement. Read here from Wired magazine how Bezos hopes to get stuff to us all more quickly and cheaply through the use of drones. “Nineteen years ago, I drove the Amazon packages to the post office every evening in […]
A Bloated (and Expensive) Diet of Political Correctness
Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels writes in Forbes how our federalized food system is designed to please as many lobbies as possible. Last year, for example, half of our corn was burned up “to please the environmental lobby (global warming), the farm lobby (bloated corn prices) and the defense lobby (energy security).” Next year the U.S. […]
Poverty Not Abolished by Legislative Fiat
James A. Dorn, vice president for Monetary Studies at the Cato Institute, explains how an increase in the minimum wage, good intentions from proponents aside, can actually increase poverty. There is a strong body of evidence that minimum wage increases adversely affect job opportunities for lower-skilled workers. As Mr. Dorn writes, “Those workers most apt […]
Hungry for France – Alec Lobrano
Parisians—contemplating the outcome of the election for mayor of Paris—can either drown their sorrows or celebrate in style over un café et un croissant, s’il vous plait. Our friend Alec Lobrano, in a recent WSJ article, explains the intricacies involved in making croissant dough (it can take 48 hours for good dough) and recommends the best […]
The Paradox of H. Pylori
Is the overuse of antibiotics permanently altering microbial flora of the human body? In a Wired magazine interview, Dr. Martin Blaser, a professor of microbiology, explains how superbugs—those drug-resistant bacteria—may also be contributing to the increasing incidence of obesity, allergies, asthma and gastroesophageal reflux. Surprising research also shows that people who have H. pylori are […]
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