Carnival
TweetThere's a new Carnival of Principled Government — the tenth — over at Consent of the Governed. It looks very nice. Check it out. #call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}
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General dissatisfaction
TweetA new Gallup opinion poll found that Americans are feeling "distinctly negative" toward congressional Democrats — as negative as they were about the Republican Congress just before the 2006...
View ArticleThe next step in health care rationing
TweetI'm pro-choice on everything, including abortion and suicide. I think most of the "slippery slope" arguments of the pro-life people are specious. That said, I found this story disturbing. Oregon's...
View ArticleEnvisioning the worst-case future
TweetIn his latest Weekly Standard column, Fred Barnes foresaw a bleak future for advocates of liberty and limited government (as if it isn't bleak enough, with half the nation's Republicans embracing...
View ArticleReasons for optimism
TweetJohn Samples at Cato@Liberty looked at public opinion trends regarding government spending and saw reasons for limited-government advocates to be optimistic even if Obama wins: If history is any...
View ArticleMoney hole
TweetFriday night, Jed Baer emailed a few of us about this video at the von Mises Institute, but it wouldn't load for me. Yesterday, LGF posted it. It's damned funny, but in a slightly disturbing way —...
View ArticleCrony capitalism
TweetWhen you start handing out free money, expect a long line to form. Wall Street bankers and insurance companies have been joined in the bailout line by student loan debtors (and their creditors),...
View ArticleTreasury to be run by tax scofflaw
TweetI seem to recall that the Obama transition team had a detailed questionnaire for potential appointees, some 16 or 20 pages long. One of the questions was, "Do you own a gun?" I wonder if there was...
View ArticleShovel-ready stimulus
TweetInvestor's Business Daily can't understand why the Obama administration and Congress are moving quickly to prevent off-shore drilling when supporting more drilling should be a no-brainer for our...
View ArticleWhy swine flu worries me
TweetThere are several reasons to be concerned about swine flu. But here's what worries me most: "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things...
View ArticleHappy Friedman Day!
TweetYou've no doubt heard of the Tax Foundation's "Tax Freedom Day," the day when Americans have finally earned enough money to pay all our taxes. This year, it was April 13. But because of borrowing,...
View ArticleBureaucrats party on our dime
TweetThe financial situation of Social Security has dramatically worsened recently. A few years ago, it was expected to run a surplus until 2025. That was recently revised to 2017. Now, thanks to the...
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Venn diagram political humor
TweetCatching up on The Liberty Papers, I spotted this amusing Venn diagram of government effectiveness from Graph Jam. If you click through to their post, you'll find some interesting comments. And...
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Warren on Washington weather
TweetFrom Americans for Limited Government, here are a couple of William Warren cartoons that might amuse (or maybe annoy) those of you back East trying to dig out from the latest massive winter storm....
View ArticleCutting gov’t spending is so easy a 6th-grader can do it
TweetPeter Suderman at Reason Hit & Run reported: Figuring out how to save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars on ink is so easy a sixth grader could do it. In fact, one did. Suvir...
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