Sunset in the Keys.
The Foe: Radical Islam
Countries front and center, with much to lose, include Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan. Each of these countries needs to go all-in to annihilate ISIS. Here Secretary of State John Kerry identifies neither the real foe, nor those specific countries that need to step forward in response to ISIS aggression. Rather, Kerry writes, “Put simply, we […]
Free Speech Alive and Well—at Yale?
Dick and I, for various unexpected reasons, were not able to attend the Cato Institute Benefactor Summit held this year in Naples, Florida. Among the highlights we will miss is keynote speaker Ayann Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born human rights activists, a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, founder of the AHA Foundation, and author of Infidel. […]
Free-Trade Death Trap
You would never give away your business after years of creating value. You would also never purposefully devalue your life’s savings. Right? When I was studying business and finance in the early 90’s at Babson College “Globalization” was the future. Where has that gotten us? Into a load of trouble. Countries like China manipulate their […]
Governor Rick Scott Runs off the Rails
I twice voted for business friendly Florida Governor Rick Scott. And, on balance, Rick has done a good job. But as John Fund writes, the governor’s failure to block non-citizen voting in Florida is off the rails. After years of legal battles between the governor’s office and the Obama administration, a federal-appeals-court panel issued an […]
The NFL—Nonprofit, Tax-Exempt
Unlike Major League Baseball—which pays federal taxes—the National Football League, which gained tax-exempt status in 1944, does not pay federal taxes. The league itself is nonprofit, tax-exempt. Notwithstanding that taxpayers fund most stadium costs, television images made in those publicly funded stadiums are privatized, with all gains kept by owners. And yes, NFL commissioner Roger […]
Niskanen Center’s Weekend Defense Reading
Matthew Fay at the Niskanen Center focuses your attention on some essential reading for this weekend. With the President’s Day holiday and the “epic” snowstorm that hit the Beltway this week, it was a somewhat slow week in the defense policy world. That, of course, does not mean the week was bereft of events, but […]
Support Sheriff Mack
In mid-January Sheriff Richard Mack suffered a heart attack. This follows shortly after his wife was hospitalized in 2014 with major medical issues. In 2010 I wrote a five part profile of Sheriff Mack (collected here in one post), focusing on his stand against the federal government in Mack/Printz vs. U.S. Sheriff Mack put a […]
Undoing the Damage from Obamacare
On March 4, the most important challenge to Obamacare goes before the Supreme Court. In King v. Burwell, according to Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner, the case is not about more federal welfare payments or about the technical interpretation of statutory language. It is about whether a president has the power to unilaterally rewrite a law. […]
Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell’s Solution for Greece
The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell writes, “Centralization is the secular religion of the European elite and they want Greece in the Euro.” Dan, however, advises no more bail out money for Greece and counts Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain as countries all drifting toward bankruptcy. Dr. Mitchell concludes, “There is a solution […]