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
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try again. With Plans A, B and C having failed miserably, President Obama yesterday unveiled his latest “new and improved” version of health-care reform. He says that this incarnation “incorporates the best ideas from…
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The Same Rotten Rx by Michael D. Tanner
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try again. With Plans A, B and C having failed miserably, President Obama yesterday unveiled his latest “new and improved” version of health-care reform. He says that this incarnation “incorporates the best ideas from Democrats and Republicans …
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The Same Rotten Rx by Michael D. Tanner
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Fraudulent Tax Revenue Forecasts by Richard W. Rahn
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Fraudulent Tax Revenue Forecasts by Richard W. Rahn
Doug Brooks, founder and head of IPOA, a trade group for private military and security contractors, has long claimed that using such contractors is more effective than their public sector counterparts. Indeed, search online for “Doug Brooks and cost effectiveness” and you get 33,500 results. Now, it appears that he is right, at least mostly, in his view, according…
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At Long Last! IPOA Is Right by David Isenberg
One long-standing hallmark of Western conservative thought is the emphasis on the rule of law. Earlier generations of conservatives understood that, without such constraints, liberty would be imperiled and a free society would ultimately descend into tyranny. As Lord Acton observed, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Even during the 20th century, most conservatives were wary of unfettered…
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Conservative Leninists and the War on Terror by Ted Galen Carpenter
One of the mysterious aspects of the decision last December 31 by Federal District Judge Ricardo Urbina to dismiss all charges against five guards from Blackwater over the killing of 17 Iraqis in Nisoor Square, Baghdad, in 2007, was just how the Justice Department lawyers could have bungled the case so badly. As I previously noted another development took place October 29, 2007, when it was revealed that potential prosecution of Blackwater guards may…
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Justice is Inept as Well as Blind by David Isenberg
Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, has …
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Why More Consumer Protection When Too Much Led To Crisis? by Mark A. Calabria
The elderly man sitting next to me during the screening of Ajami at a Washington, DC movie theater last week made it known that this would be his first Israeli film, and since he wasn’t fluent in Hebrew he was wondering if any of the characters would be conversing in Yiddish, a language with which he was more …
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Ajami: You’re Not in "Exodus" Anymore by Leon T. Hadar
In August, President Barack Obama commented that “UPS and FedEx are doing…
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Want Better Mail Service? Look Abroad by Tad DeHaven
Two years ago, the Supreme Court decided in District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. But the Second Amendment, like the rest of the Bill of Rights, only applies to the federal government, so yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in McDonald v. Chicago . McDonald will determine whether the vast majority of Americans who live in the states share the …
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Supreme Court Protects Gun Rights, Fails to Restore Greater Freedom by Ilya Shapiro
