WEEI’s Jerry Thornton with the Divisional Round, Patriots VS. Ravens, recap: Things to consider while basking in the afterglow of the best erotic thriller since “A Gronking to Remember”: — Sometimes I just hate being right. A few weeks ago, when there were still eight or nine teams alive in the AFC playoff picture, I […]
Raise the Gas Tax?
Finally consumers are getting a break with lower prices at the pump. As it stands federal gas tax revenues have risen 6.1% per year since 1982. Let consumers keep more of what they make and not give it to a wasteful government. My friend Chris Edwards from Cato explains: Gas tax supporters say that it […]
Night at the Museum
Cato’s Chris Edwards offers up a way to showcase government waste. About 18 million tourists visit D.C. each year. They view the grand government buildings, and they see the monuments to the great political leaders. They learn about the government’s successes in places such as the Air and Space Museum, and they read the pro-government […]
Happy New Year from Gene Healy
Cato’s Gene Healy picks the five worst op-eds for the year, writing at Reason.com, “Some people make New Year’s resolutions; I prefer New Year’s recriminations.” First up is Dr. Keith Ablow, at FoxNews.com. Gene writes of Ablow’s piece: “We need the spirit of an American jihad” insists psychiatrist and Fox News commentator Dr. Keith Ablow—not, […]
And the Beat Goes On
What makes someone great at what they do? I’ve been thinking about that while enjoying NPR’s daily feature this week on drums and drumming called Beat Week. Monday it was the funky drummers for James Brown, John “Jabo” Starks and Clyde Stubblefield. Tuesday was Neil Peart from the band Rush. Today it’s the beats used […]
Happy Birthday to a Legend
Over Christmas break I played music on an old iPod we keep at our New Hampshire house. It still plays Jack Johnson as well as it ever did. But to Apple, in terms of sales, the iPod is barely a blip on the radar in an iPhone world. Technology tends to be a killer to […]
VIDEO: RIP Joe Cocker
In with the Good, Out with the Bad
Tuesday was a big day for pro-growth small business governors. Let’s begin with the Cato Institute’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors 2014 by Nicole Kaeding and Chris Edwards. In their report, only four governors received an A grade. Two of them were fighting for their political lives on Tuesday and both won: Sam […]
Paul is no Isolationist
Senator Rand Paul is no isolationist. The word has become a slur used by neocons against anyone seeking a common sense foreign policy. FoxNews reports on Paul’s comments here: Charging that “America cannot disengage from the world,” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday confronted critics who brand him an isolationist as he endorsed an American foreign […]
End the Fed
The Federal Reserve has been ruining the currency for over 100 years. Now there may be a way to stop it. The Cato Institute has established the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. According to CEO John Allison the center will focus on the creation of a free-market monetary system in the U.S. “We have assembled […]
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