Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Politics
“Mike,” who declined to give his last name, responded to my recent blog post, “Of Toilet Bowls and Fiscal Cliffs: A Simple Solution,” in which I proposed as a political[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Politics
Behold a righteous rant against the Fiscal Cliff deal from a fan of Andrew Breitbart with the YouTube handle newsninja2012 … who happens to be black. No commentary is necessary,[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty
I could cite a boatload of figures showing states with “right-to-work” laws have been better economic performers than those where people can be forced into labor unions as a condition[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Politics · Taxes
In the video below, Nobel-Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman examines the modern welfare state and discusses why it doesn’t work in the long run. As we’re now seeing, the long run[...]
In a blog I used to write for regularly before joining Heartland, I used to specialize in take-downs of Peggy Noonan. Bless her heart, but she never really got Barack Obama, and[...]
Here we go again. Sports broadcaster Bob Costas used his platform at NBC’s Sunday Night Football to blame guns for Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher’s murder of his girlfriend[...]
A week or so ago, The Washington Post ran an err0r-filled, old-news hit piece against The Heartland Institute titled, “Climate skeptic group works to reverse renewable energy mandates.” Reporter Juliet[...]
Environment/Energy · Liberty · Politics
Pierre Gosselin has carved out a unique niche in the climate blogging arena with his NoTricksZone blog, which brings “climate news from Germany in English.” Gosselin wrote about how The[...]
Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance in the UK has produced an excellent essay dismantling the British government’s announced plans to cap the interest rates on personal loans. “Loan sharking” strikes[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty
[First posted at Forbes.] The fiscal cliff will not be a new topic to regular readers of this column. I have been writing about it for almost two years, including[...]
Health Care · Liberty · Politics · Regulation
[First published at Real Clear Politics.] Hobby Lobby, the mega craft store, has lost the first round of their case against the government over the contraception mandate, and will be fined $1.3[...]
Today’s Wall Street Journal reprinted a delightful five-paragraph excerpt from a 1893 essay by Mark Twain titled “The Moral Statistician.” It is worth a few minutes of attention because it[...]
Health Care · Liberty · Politics
The short answer is … no. Our Benjamin Domenech explained on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze TV the other day how you need to find a primary-care physician — and a young[...]
Depending on where you’re from — and how you were raised — that wonderful accompaniment to the turkey is either called stuffing, or it’s called dressing. Let’s get beyond the usual stuff,[...]
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