Attending a fund raising event under a tent at the home of Walt Disney chairman Alan Horn were Barbra Streisand, Jeffery Katzenberg, Tom Rothman and James Brolin. Just regular folk out for a down-home dinner with friends. As Jim Gerhaghty writes in NRO, Obama was in L.A. on Wednesday to speak to Hollywood millionaires about […]
O’Care’s Rising Cost
Early this past April Obama bragged from the White House Rose Garden that Obamacare was reducing the growth in health-care costs. Here Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute points out that, in fact, health-care expenditures last quarter have grown 9.9% on a year-over-year basis. Some of the growth can be attributed to the economic recovery, […]
Bad Science Gone Amuck
The White House on Tuesday unveiled the draft of the national Climate Assessment. Mr. Obama hopes to use the Assessment to shore up public support for his climate policies, which would put new regulations in place to limit emissions. The report, according to Cato Institute scholars Paul Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels, has serious implications […]
Counterbalancing Stress
Living in Key West has many bright benefits, the least of which is not Shakti Yoga, run by my good friend Sofia Artola. I’ve practiced yoga with her for years and can personally vouch for its many benefits to both body and mind. The virtues of pranayama—controlled breathing—are reason enough to practice yoga on a […]
Critical Ukraine Elections
George Weigel lays out the thoughts of Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk on what is at stake for Ukraine on May 25. The May 25 election is “crucial.” As the archbishop put it, this could be and should be “the most free and open election” in Ukraine’s post–Cold War history as an independent state. The Ukrainian Greek […]
The Failure of Obamanomics
Government spending, congressional taxing, Treasury borrowing, Fed printing? Stephen Moore explains here how they are all non-starters for stimulating the economy. The Left counters that we should have borrowed even more money to get the economy fired up. But as Mr. Moore points out, this stretches the realm of credibility. Just how much would have […]
Rule of Plunder vs. Rule of Law
Senior fellow and China specialist James Dorn of the Cato Institute argues here that morality and justice require the protection, not the taking, of property. Following the advice of Thomas Piketty, who teaches at the Paris School of Economics and has achieved “rock star” status with the release of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Mr. […]
There’s Still Time
Mark May 21 on your calendar. That’s the date of Cato Institute’s Milton Friedman black-tie event at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in NYC. Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and global human-rights activist, will deliver the Keynote Address. Recipient of the 2014 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty is Leszek Balcerowicz, former Deputy Prime Minister and […]
You’ve Just Lost Your iPhone?
Do you know about Lost Mode in Find My Phone? It could save you a lot of mental anguish if you should lose your iPhone. Read here from Wired the steps to follow that might allow you to get your device back. First, before this situation happens, you need to have Find My iPhone (or […]
EPA Destroying California Agriculture
At Cato Institute, its energy and environment research promotes policies that help safeguard the environment, but not at the expense of economic liberty. As Cato’s Patrick J. Michaels points out, the environmental machine—its bureaucrats and activists—are legally empowered to do things that no Congress could think of doing. Like mandating that autos reach fuel economies […]
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