Is the fate of the Senate hanging on the outcome of stock and bond markets? Turbulent markets are shaking investors’ confidence and putting the economic management of the Obama administration under a microscope. Will it affect Democrats in November? James Pierson at Real Clear Politics writes: The stock market correction may prove to be the […]
Last Chance Obama
Following the debacle of a Middle East foreign policy crafted by the Bush neocons, Barack Obama has tumbled down the same rabbit’s hole. The Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow outlines the quagmire Obama has gotten America into in Iraq and correctly suggests that Obama has one last chance to put an end to the folly of […]
How to Create Terrorists at Home
A thoughtful debate by Congress, not just by the president and his insiders, might get us to the root of the problem that is ISIS–that it’s not our problem. That is until our airstrikes-to-nowhere make it so. “With Tomahawks raining down on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, it would be nice to have Congress debate the […]
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Bring in the Clowns
Even now, after so many words have been written about the Affordable Care Act, it is distressing to realize that had just one Senate Democrat opposed Obamacare, the law would not have passed the Senate as it did. Just one nay would have forced improvements in the law, making Obamacare far less destructive than it […]
VIDEO: War without Debate
From Cato Institute: Featuring Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute; and Christopher Preble, Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by John Maniscalco, Director of Congressional Affairs, Cato Institute. When Congress authorized the arming and training of Syrian moderates to combat ISIS, it explicitly stated that this action should not […]
Vietnam Shocker from Cato’s Dan Mitchell
You will not believe what you are about to read on how countries around the world think about free markets. Really quite astounding! Read Cato Institute Senior Fellow Dan Mitchell’s full review here: Every so often, I share polling data from other nations that is either encouraging or puzzling. Looking through the archives, here are […]
80,000 New Rules and Regulations?
Switzerland, Hong Kong and Singapore have higher incomes per capita and lower unemployment rates than we have in the United States. Yet each of these countries is able to function with far fewer regulations, lower taxes and smaller government. Richard W. Rahn, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, points out in the Washington Times, that […]
McCain and Graham on the Wrong Track
Here W. James Antle III analyzes the reasons behind resurgent interventionism in the GOP. Republican hawks have regained some of their swagger. Lindsey Graham is talking with a straight face about running for president. Stephen Hayes opened a piece in the Weekly Standard by claiming, “The Republican flirtation with dovish noninterventionism is over. It wasn’t much […]
Ebola isn’t a Spending Problem
As you can see money isn’t the issue at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), as Democrats will have you believe. Big government is the killer as Cato’s Chris Edwards illustrates here: In an editorial today, the Wall Street Journal discusses Democratic complaints linking Ebola with supposedly falling spending on the Centers for Disease Control […]