Republicans and the Long Game
The sudden deluge of scandal which dominates the discussion around President Obama’s administration at the moment has handed a golden opportunity to Republicans. Yet if they aren’t careful, they’ll squander[...]
Tagged: big government
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Liberty · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Crony Capitalism: By-Product of Big Government
Heartland‘s Steve Stanek speaks with Randall Holcombe, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University and Senior Fellow at the James Madison Institute. Economics professor and author Randall Holcombe explains[...]
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Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Taxes
California, Illinois Double Down on Big Government
[First published in the Orange County Register.] A few days after the big election, and the smoke is clearing. We’re beginning to see the most consequential vote of Nov. 6[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Internet/Telecom · Taxes
Domenech on Ricochet: Republicans for Bigger Government
On the July 16 Coffee & Markets podcast, Francis Cianfrocca and I discussed the dreams of more tax revenue to fuel bigger government in the form of the Amazon tax. The[...]
Post-Quake Quote of The Week
I came across the quote of the week. This is from Ron Kirby, the transportation planning coordinator for the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, in an article in The Washington Post[...]
The Evils of Class Warfare
Just a few hours after my guest appearance last week on WSAU-AM and FM radio in Wausau to talk about the Wisconsin recall elections, my phone rang. The man calling[...]
Economics · Education · Liberty · Regulation
Celebrate ‘Lemonade Freedom Day’ Tomorrow!
Robert Fernandes, a New Jersey father, proved the “power of one” in the past month, when he dubbed Saturday, August 20, as “Lemonade Freedom Day.” Now parents in California, Nevada,[...]
FIRE · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Politics
Not Above the Law: Obama Attorneys’ Conduct Calls for Court-ordered Fines
The legal immorality of the Obama administration and its Department of Justice now stands fully exposed. And even some lawyers are shocked. To be sure, many people think lawyers are[...]
Environment/Energy · Liberty · Politics
How Many Liberals Does it Take to Screw In a Hazardous CFL Lightbulb?
The answer to the above headline is “a whole Congress” (and a senseless president “W”). As Stephen F. Heyward noted the other day, the ban of the incandescent light bulb[...]
Economics · Regulation · Taxes
Social Security is in Worse Shape than the White House Says
Here is a letter to the editor I submitted to USA Today the other day and was recently published. If Jacob Lew, director of the White House’s Office of Management[...]
The Nanny State Rears Its Ugly Head in Evanston
It’s tough to top the Chicago City Council’s draconian ordinances that attempts to over-regulate everything from food trucks to music venues. It appears, however, that Evanston, IL, home to Northwestern[...]
Behind the Crony Capitalism Curtain
American Spectator‘s Shawn Macomber has an interview up today with Fox Business reporter Charlie Gasparino, who has written what looks like a fascinating look inside the back room interaction between[...]
Eat This, Not That
Over at Heartland’s Health Care News, Ben Domenech has a great article on the increasing role government is taking in our lives, particularly in what we eat: Unfortunately, as Schweikart[...]
Nanny Staters Going Loco over Four Loko
The “Nanny Staters” have been busy recently. Two weeks ago, the San Francisco city council vote to ban the sale of McDonald’s Happy Meals; then last week we had the[...]
Government Protects Us From Evil Cupcake Salesmen
Thank God for Big Government. What would we do without someone to keep us from eating Happy Meals, protect us from lemonade stands, and stop us from getting an unregulated[...]
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