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Why Unemployment Remains High
"[C]onstant political meddling in labor markets," says Richard Epstein, "makes it hard for individual firms to figure out the risk of hiring new employees.":
Yet on this issue [New York Times columnist Paul] Krugman and the Democrats adopted a weirdly partial...
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Taxpayers Pay for Political Fundraising Venue
The Sewall-Belmont House is a small museum in Washington, D.C., that celebrates the history of women's struggles for political equality. But for many of the capital's politicos, the house is primarily a venue for hob-knobbing with supporters willing to pay...
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Are Anti-terrorist Voices Gaining Influence Among Muslims?
One hopeful sign was the issuance last week of a 600-page fatwa against terrorism by a leading Muslim scholar. The Jerusalem Post described the fatwa as the "most comprehensive theological refutation of Islamist terrorism." The author of the fatwa, Tahir...
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CBO Sees Debt Reaching an Ominous Threshold
Debt held by the public will reach 90 percent of U.S. gross domestic product by 2020, according to the latest CBO projections. That's a higher level of debt than projected by the White House when it released its 2011 budget...
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They're Probably Good at Teaching Jargon
Smelling politics in the inclusion of Ohio and New York on the list of finalists for Race to the Top funds, Frederick Hess takes a peak at New York's application:
New York's 908-page application ... guarantees, "an intense focus on curriculum and...
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What is Best for Health Care Reform?
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Looking Under the Hood
The arcana of legislative process is usually enough to make our eyes glaze over, but there's some possible intrigue that's worth noting regarding plans to use reconciliation for health care. The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that some House...
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Worth Checking Out: Learn from the Electoral College, Welcome the Macdonald-Laurier Institute
• There's an effort underway to undermine the Electoral College through an interstate compact in which participating states agree to appoint Electors based on the national popular vote. The project, in fact, is called the National Popular Vote. But, as...
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Standing Up for State Sovereignty and Liberty
At The Heritage Foundation this week, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reviewed some of the ways the federal government is trying to turn states into mere agencies of the federal government-and of the ways Texas is resisting this drift:
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Health Savings Accounts Work in Indiana
Letting state employees take charge of their own health care dollars has turned them into much better shoppers for health care and saved the government of Indiana money, says Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana. For the past five years, the...
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An Explosion in State Consumer Protection Litigation
Consumer protection litigation under state law has more than doubled since 2000, according to a report by the Searle Center on Law Regulation and Economic Growth. That report also estimates that 78 percent of those cases do not involve any...
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Can't Be Said Often Enough ...
The control of wealth is the control over human life. So if a centrally planned economy decides how wealth is to be created and how it is to be distributed, then they really have a control over human life.
That's Arnold...
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Study: Biofuels Don't Reduce Carbon Dioxide
Using crops for motor fuel was supposed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but a new study has found it has exactly the opposite effect. Burning biofuels may release less carbon dioxide than burning fossil fuels, but the rising demand for...
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Failing Upward, Federal Reserve Edition
Reports that the Federal Reserve is winning the political battle to gain new regulatory powers over financial firms prompts American Enterprise Institute scholar Alex Pollock to ask:
Isn't this the same Fed which helped inflate the great housing and mortgage bubble, denied...
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Banning Left-Hand Turns Could Probably Save Some Lives, Too
What high regard regulators must have for citizens these days! Now, they want to take the tube out of the tube steak because they don't trust parents to feed their children safely. As the Washington Times reports: "Bureaucrats at the...
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Save the Oceans with More Drilling
Could more drilling for oil actually be the solution to an environmental problem? According to Bruce Allen and the group SOS California (Stop Oil Seeps California), the answer is yes. The group has a documentary on the problem of natural...
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One Way That Becoming More Like Europe Would Be Good
President Obama's plans to raise the top two income tax rates would make the United States a higher-taxing country than many in Europe, notes the Cato Institute's Chris Edwards: "If the top federal rate rises to 40 percent next year, the United...
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Worth Checking Out: Get Your Web Site Off the Shelf, Master FOIA
• Are you building a Web site to promote liberty? Before you dump your donors' hard-earned dollars into proprietary software, take a look at Ready Made Web. The site, launched recently by Cord Blomquist and Jerry Brito, is a virtual...
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Torture and Death in Cuba
Dissidents in Cuba are predicting that the death of Orlanda Zapata Tamayo will galvanize the pro-democracy movement on the Communist-governed island. Tamayo, 42, had been imprisoned since 2003 because of his membership in groups calling for democracy in Cuba. He...
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Thanks, Unions
As of December 31, 2009, stimulus funds had paid for the weatherization of about 9,100 homes-about 583,900 less than had been planned. Aside from "Why is weatherizing private homes the government's job?" you might wonder: "Why so few?" For that...
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