February 11, 2025

Trump FTC Must Stop Biden’s Prescription Drug Madness

Joe Biden has left the White House, as have his inflationary policies. Unfortunately, the consequences from his administration’s blame dodging for the high cost of everything remain dangerously intact. One of Biden’s many scapegoats we...

April 29, 2017

Governors weigh in against Adelson’s gaming ban

In a town where partisan divide is as large as the Grand Canyon, it took a Las Vegas billionaire to bring together members of both political parties – just not in the way he hoped. Since New Jersey and a handful of other states legalized onl...

February 15, 2017

The free market is the solution for upgrading airport infrastructure

During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump compared domestic airports unfavorably to those found overseas, going so far as to say that American airports "are, like, from a third-world country."  While that's a bit of an ex...

December 6, 2010

The Keynesian Stimulus Fallacy Refuses to Go Away

They say that doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results is the definition of insanity. If that is the case, then Keynesian politicians are completely bonkers. Given the disappointing nature of the recent employment nu...

October 18, 2010

How to balance the budget in a decade without raising taxes

The figures are in, and the federal deficit for fiscal year 2010 is $1,294,000,000,000. Although slightly lower than last year's record shattering amount, the picture for America's fiscal future still appears bleak. At least, it is if you count on p...

July 10, 2009

Protecting Their Own: The International Community Sides With Zelaya

Liberal institutionalism is a branch of international relations theory which holds international organizations in high regard. Liberal institutionalists believe that such organizations can promote peace by fostering cooperation between states. Hondur...

July 2, 2009

Captive capitalists

No one should really be surprised by Wal-Mart's recent declaration of support for a government health insurance mandate.  History provides a long list of examples where individual businesses have jumped at the opportunity to use the power of gov...

June 19, 2009

Government Won't Allow Fair Competition

Proponents of socialized medicine learned an important lesson from the 1993 failure of Clinton Care, and recognize that they must hide their agenda in the rhetoric of market competition. Government is not going to take over insurance, they say; it me...

June 6, 2009

Sotomayor and the Ugliness of Identity Politics

The calculated nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is the latest example of the rejection of the idea of a color-blind society.  Martin Luther King dared to dream of a future when his four children could "one day live i...