Too bad Oregon, along with the other 49 states, didn’t just let the markets compete to provide health insurance to its residences. What’s wrong with a robust individual heath insurance market with the ability to buy across state lines and high deductibles? But it’s not to be. Instead, as Wired magazine explains, Oregon has paid […]
War Whoops from the War Hawks Camp
In The Wall Street Journal the neocon flame begins to burn. Sanctions, skipping the G-8 summit in Sochi, hitting Russian oligarchs in their pocketbooks, isolating Russia in international forums—all of these options are legitimate responses to Mr. Putin’s land grab in the sovereign state of Ukraine. But there is also a need to think about […]
Thank God for Uber
On Wed March 5th, Debbie and I landed at frigid Logan airport in Boston. We were there to visit my Dad, who will shortly turn 99 years old. As we taxied to the gate, we noticed an especially large number of odd-looking vehicles lined up along the runway. Inside the terminal, we learned that President […]
Garry Kasparov Says Use Banks Not Tanks
Put the Swiss bank, visa and IPO screws to Russia’s 140 oligarchs. Former Russian world chess champ Kasparov knows of what he speaks. Use the pressure of banks not tanks to stop Putin’s Ukraine charge. As I have said for years, it is a waste of time to attempt to discern deep strategy in Mr. […]
Taxpayer Funded SNAP, CACFP, and What?
The problem with so call conservative politicians is that they still think government is the answer. Congressman Paul Ryan does a solid job pointing out our government welfare madness but in a recent report he offers up little in terms of free market solutions. The first place for so called government reformers should be to […]
Is War Imminent? Illarionov on Ukraine
Are You Ready for Hillary?
Ukraine: No Vital U.S Security Issue
Here Cato Institute’s Doug Bandow lays out the underpinnings of today’s Ukraine/Russia standoff and looks at potential options. None includes U.S. military intervention as a sensible option. Ukrainians won an important political battle by ousting the corrupt Viktor Yanukovich as president. But replacing Yanukovich with another dubious politico, such as opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, just […]
Don’t Tread on My Checkbook
The Tea Party used to be laser focused on calling out the big spenders in Washington. But the TP lost its way in the rat’s nest of social issues. The TP would be better served if it focused first on fiscal responsibility. There’s plenty of ways to cut up that pig. Cato scholar Michael Tanner […]
Samuel Adams’ Party
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”–Samuel Adams Where is the Tea Party? Yes it got the target right in big government as Cato’s Gene Healy points out in his weekly piece in the DC Examiner. But […]