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 […]
Sunnis Aren’t Biting
Obama needs Iraq’s Sunnis against ISIS. And it appears to be a no-go. Here State Department whistle blower Peter Van Buren explains what’s going on and why. When ISIS first took control of Sunni areas in western Iraq, anger towards the Shia government in Baghdad caused many to see them as liberators. The Iraqi army, […]
U.S.Repeating Past Mistakes
Here the American Conservative’s Daniel Larison explains America’s tendency to exaggerate foreign threats. Stephen Walt sees the U.S. repeating past mistakes in its war on ISIS. The first mistake he identifies is the tendency to exaggerate foreign threats: Why is threat inflation a problem? When we exaggerate dangers in order to sell a military [action], […]
Which Country is the World’s Small Government Model?
This fall Americans have a chance to throw out the big government interventionists. Thanks to the Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell for producing a small government template for all America-first candidates. Here Dan explains the worldwide model that Hong Kong has become with it’s 15% flat tax. It is time the Washington elite began to do […]
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 […]
Grin and Bear It No More
Would you know what to do if you, with only a knife and your wits, encountered a bear in the woods? Meet Mr. Elbert Guillory, state senator from Louisiana, who would suggest that you get in close, inside the bear’s paws and under its chin. Along with being a bear-killing state senator, Mr. Guillory is […]
Our Government is too Big, Way too Big
The Cato Institute’s David Boaz looks at the Hewlett Packard split up and asks what HP shareholders know that the American bureaucrats apparently do not about when big becomes just too big. One reason that government grows too big is what Milton and Rose Friedman called “the tyranny of the status quo.” That is, when a […]
The U.S. in a Geopolitical Minefield
The Cato Institute’s Ted Galen Carpenter asks if the U.S. is prepared to stay involved in a multi-decade regional Middle East power struggle. U.S. and Western officials like to portray the campaign to defeat ISIS as a struggle between the civilized world and a monstrous terrorist organization. As with most wartime narratives throughout history, that […]
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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 […]