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 […]
World Series Winner in Kansas: Gov. Brownback
Governor Sam Brownback is in the fight of his political life, under immense pressure by the tax and spend liberal left. It’s no mistake that Gov. Brownback was one of only four governors to receive an “A” grade in Cato’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors. My friend Chris Edwards at Cato calls out […]
Market Collapse: Last Mango in Paris
“If the phone doesn’t ring it’s me” — Jimmy Buffett Are we having fun yet? Since peaking at 17,279.74 on September 19, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index has lost 6.6% of its value. If you haven’t been investing very long, this is what it’s supposed to feel like. During bull markets it’s easy to […]
Fence Jumping the White House
How did that guy jump the fence and get into the White House? Once again it’s not a spending problem. As Cato’s Chris Edwards points out it’s an accountability problem within the giant Department of Homeland Security. The Secret Service is scandal prone. It spends excessively on foreign presidential trips, and it has agents who get in trouble […]
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