On a recent Fox News debate about health insurance, Democratic political strategist Bob Beckel explained …
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The Truth about Health Insurance Premiums and Profits by Alan Reynolds
Are American officials afraid of peace? The supposed peace candidate in 2008, Barack Obama has expanded the war in Afghanistan and refuses to rule out an attack on Iran. President Obama’s opponent, John McCain, sang a cheery tune about bombing the latter country. Worst of all, President George W. Bush and his top aides apparently considered attacking Russia, a one-time Cold War foe and nuclear-armed power, on behalf of the country of Georgia. In …
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Give Peace a Chance by Doug Bandow
The mushroom cloud rises over Washington. President Obama has triggered the nuclear option on health care reform, calling for Democrats to use an obscure parliamen tary gimmick known as reconciliation to bypass a Republican filibuster and force a bill through Congress. Even if moderate…
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Health Care Bill Faces Big Hurdles in the House by Michael D. Tanner
The education world is abuzz with the release Wednesday of draft curriculum guidelines …
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The False Premise of National Education Standards by Andrew J. Coulson
The education world is abuzz with the release Wednesday of draft curriculum guidelines by the Common Core State Standards Initiative. CCSSI’s draft is closely watched because the Obama administration plans to withhold billions in federal funding from states that refuse to adopt it, or something very similar. The whole idea of imposing a single set of age-based standards on all students rests on a false premise: that children are identical widgets capable of …
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The False Premise of National Education Standards by Andrew J. Coulson
On the March 9 anniversary of the stock market implosion a year ago, a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal featured one of the same bears making the same bad argument he made a year ago. The article, “Worries Rebound on Bull’s Birthday,” was almost entirely devoted to trying to explain a graph by Robert Shiller of Yale, titled “Stocks Still Expensive.” The New York …
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Shilling for Shiller in Permabear Press by Alan Reynolds
President Obama wants a health care bill now. And this time, he swears it will be corruption-free. Yet it’s hard to imagine a more pro-corruption strategy than the president’s. The first part of that strategy is for the House of Representatives to cast a pro-corruption vote. According to the president, his new health plan “gets rid of …
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Would Obamacare End Corruption — or Expand It? by Michael F. Cannon
While the role and impact of private military and security contractors in Iraq is hardly a spent issue, increasingly, eyes and attention are turning to Afghanistan. This is hardly …
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Private Military Contractors as Buzz Lightyear: To Afghanistan and Beyond by David Isenberg
American leaders have experienced repeated frustration in their efforts to enlist China in the campaign to impose robust economic penalties against the newest nuclear proliferators: North Korea and Iran. In the various rounds of multilateral sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council, Beijing has sought to delay such measures and weaken their provisions. Chinese officials also have complained loudly about unilateral U.S. measures — so much so that the Obama administration has reportedly sought to carve …
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False Hopes by Ted Galen Carpenter
While preparing a chapter for my next book, Is This America? (Cato Institute), on the effect of so many Americans in …
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Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol Resurrect McCarthy with ‘Al Qaida Seven’ Ad by Nat Hentoff
Congress believes it …
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Waging War on Black Teens by Richard W. Rahn and Izzy Santa
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) plans to use a parliamentary maneuver to force a Wednesday House vote on the removal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Kucinich’s resolution…
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Leaving Afghanistan Moves Beyond Left vs. Right by Malou Innocent
President Obama’s attempts to ram health- care reform through an increasingly reluctant Congress are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of “The Sopranos.” Whether or not you believe former Rep. Eric Massa’s bizarre accusations of locker-room…
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Final ‘Reform’ Push: Twisting Arms by Michael D. Tanner
The Congressional Budget Office, in last week’s update of…
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All the President’s Economists by Richard W. Rahn
Justice Antonin Scalia holds himself out as the patron saint of originalism, the idea that judges should interpret the Constitution according to its original public meaning. To do otherwise, he adds, is to succumb to government by black-robed philosopher-kings who fill the empty vessel of a “living Constitution” with their own policy preferences. Last week, however, in a case building on Scalia’s own landmark opinion…
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Is Justice Scalia Abandoning Originalism? by Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro
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Line-Item Veto Is No Quick-Fix by Gene Healy
Many neoconservatives and the politicians and pundits who love them have abandoned the we’ve…
U.S. foreign policy matters, especially to other countries. Just ask the citizens of nations invaded or bombed by Washington, or suffering under American sanctions, or simply annoyed by our …
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Lobbyists by Doug Bandow
Up is down, night is day, and now, in the best tradition of George Orwell’s 1984 newspeak KBR — the company that was the subject of a recent Department of Defense Inspect General report that found that the Army broke federal procurement rules in 2004, when two commanding generals improperly directed a contracting officer to pay millions of dollars in fees to KBR Inc., when funds should have been withheld, per the language in the contract with…
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KBR: Failing Upwards by David Isenberg
In case you lost count, President Obama’s remarks on Wednesday were his 35th major speech on health care reform. The news: this time he really, really, really means it when he says it’s time to act. At least I assume it was President Obama. It might have been an animatronic puppet filched from …
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Playing it Again and Again, and Again by Michael D. Tanner
