March 11, 2011

The Curious Case of Ron Paul

He is kind of like a rock star, a nerdy professor, and your crazy uncle rolled into one.  Ron Paul, a medical doctor and longtime Republican congressman from Texas, is a fundraising machine who, despite his quirkiness, should be considered a ser...

January 6, 2011

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Health

In the December 15 issue of America's most prestigious medical pubication, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Eric Friedman and Eli Adashi write, "In passing The Affordable Care Act, the United States took a giant, if partia...

December 12, 2010

Thinking beyond the Deficit

There is bipartisan agreement across the country that the debt level is out of control. As a result of previous spending and future, unfunded obligations, America faces two outcomes if nothing is done. The first possible outcome is an acute national ...

November 27, 2010

Ending Tax Demagoguery

The argument continues in Washington over whether or not to extend the Bush tax cuts to Americans making over $250K per year. Besides maligning these earners as "the rich" and making the same tired appeal to identity politics, the Democrats...

September 22, 2010

Obama the Supply-Sider?

President Obama is showing signs that he, along with most of the rest of the country, is losing faith in liberal economic theory. Now I'm not suggesting he's going to go all Milton Friedman on us, but I think it is appropriate to reflect on a comment...

July 14, 2010

The Left's Psychological Assault on Independence

The United States faces overwhelming fiscal problems. Our current level of government spending and future entitlement obligations are simply unsustainable. However, as concerning as these fiscal matters are, the biggest problem America faces has noth...

June 6, 2010

Health Care Statists on the March

The American Medical Association's top journal publishes an article calling for startling change to our medical and political system.  Not content with passage of recent health care reform, doctors Samuel Sessions and Allan Detsky suggest t...

May 5, 2010

Fixing What Ain't Broke, Hiding What Is

The financial-regulatory reform bill currently under consideration in Congress highlights a recurrent theme among the left. Whenever liberals want to pass legislation intended to solve a particular problem that increases the size and scope of the fed...

March 23, 2010

The Moral Case Against Health Care Reform

The greatest expansion of American government and the social welfare state since the Great Society passed the House Sunday night. Opponents recognize that this bill violates the most important principles of American government, and as such, is immora...

February 20, 2010

The Wisdom of Conservatism

When I was in college, I didn't consider myself particularly liberal or conservative. Instead, I considered myself pragmatic, and as such, above any narrow-minded partisan thinking. At that time in my life, I started to recognize that there were real...