President Obama has kept his promise to hit the “reset button” regarding relations with Russia. His decision to scrap the Bush administration’s plan to deploy missile interceptors and radars in Central Europe is an important …
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A New Monroe Doctrine by Ted Galen Carpenter
The talk now is about “green shoots” and a “light at the end of the tunnel.” Markets have rallied, housing prices have stopped falling, banks are profitable again, and it seems like we have been able to save several industrial giants that were on the ropes, like General Motors. But we must never forget that the light at the end of the tunnel can be an approaching train. All of these presumably positive signs…
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Bailouts, Debt Magnify Risk of Future Economic Troubles by Johan Norberg
Even as US military commanders seek a troop increase in Afghanistan to check a resurgent Taliban, US voter support is fast eroding. A CNN poll in September showed that 58% of Americans oppose the war while only 39% support it. Among Democrats, only 23% support the war, and the number keeps falling. President Obama initially called the …
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Coming Triumph of the Taliban and Pakistan? by Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
The fearlessly independent Physicians…
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Tough Questions For Doctors Who Aided CIA Torture by Nat Hentoff
This article is the second of a three part series. Part I | Part II | Part III (coming soon) Supporters of a new “Fannie Med” think it will cost less than private insurance because they …
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Public Option: a Private Insurer Killer? by Michael F. Cannon
President Obama’s risky perseverance on health care is running over another of his pet government expansions—the cap-and-trade bill sent by the House on June 26 for …
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Cap-and-Trade Is Dead. Long Live Cap-and-Trade by Patrick J. Michaels
Most bankers deserve the backlash they are experiencing right now. The absurd mistakes and sheer stupidity we have seen in the financial markets in the last decade are not what we were supposed to expect from the Masters…
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Regulation and Its Unintended Consequences by Johan Norberg
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Does the ‘Public Option’ Have to Imitate Medicare? by Michael F. Cannon
OK, let’s be old fashioned and start with what the Constitution says. After the Preamble, the …
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Healthcare: Is ‘Mandatory Insurance’ Unconstitutional? by Randy Barnett
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The recession is probably over. So said Ben Bernanke this week. His timing is exquisite. President Obama has reappointed him to be Fed chairman, and he can now head into his Senate confirmation hearings this fall with the reputation that he nipped another Great Depression in the bud. But did he? Trying to…
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Did Bernanke Save Us from Another Great Depression? by George A. Selgin
Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first became Iran’s President in August 2005, the economy has gone from “bad” to “worse.” A misery index provides a clear picture of the economic conditions experienced by the majority of Iranians. The index is the sum of the inflation, interest and unemployment rates, minus the annual percentage change in per capita GDP. Iran’s misery index for the…
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Iran’s Death Spiral by Steve H. Hanke
The President of the United States wanted to talk to kids on their first day of school, and all hell broke loose. It was a political throwdown that has lots of people asking: How did we reach such a sad state of…
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Obama’s Speech to Students Teaches Lesson About Power by Neal McCluskey
While opposition to Barack Obama’s recent “study hard and stay in school” speech perhaps was not grounded in sober assessments of the facts, it did have roots in a much…
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The Real School Indoctrination Scandal by Will Wilkinson
Do you think your tax dollars should be used to help those who want to open a house of prostitution and illegally bring underage girls into the United States as “sex workers”? As you may have seen on television over the last few days, the taxpayer-funded ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has been doing just that. Who exposed this latest bit of corruption at ACORN? — The FBI? The local …
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The Sensational Giles and O’Keefe by Richard W. Rahn
After former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s recently released explosive 2004 report on “enhanced” interrogations of terrorism suspects, he said he began his investigation “in part …
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Rebel Interrogators Want Investigation by Nat Hentoff
Eight years ago, a small number of U.S. personnel, working in tandem with local Afghan leaders, entered Afghanistan with a defined aim: to punish al-Qaida and …
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U.S. Must Narrow Objectives in Afghanistan by Malou Innocent and Christopher Preble
Sen. Baucus and his fellow “Gang of Six” negotiators have labored mightily and brought forth a mouse — a steroid-enhanced, misshapen mouse, but a mouse nonetheless. In fact, despite months of work, Senator Baucus has not actually produced a bill, but a 223-page summary of what he hopes a bill will contain. Unfortunately, without …
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Grading the Baucus Health Plan by Michael D. Tanner
As public support for the war in Afghanistan hits an all-time low, Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen has endorsed an increase in…
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No More Troops for Afghanistan by Malou Innocent
“Fannie Med” is all but dead. Good riddance. President Obama’s “government option” had no business being part of health reform. It was more radical than the Clinton health plan, which the American people…
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Break Local Monopolies by Letting Insurers Compete across State Lines by Michael F. Cannon
