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Creating Your Path to a Policy Career
The Institute for Humane Studies has just published a collection of several dozen essays called "Creating Your Path to a Policy Career." Topics covered include: how to be a specialist, how to be a generalist, how to write well, how...
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More Federal Grants Equals Higher State Taxes
Last year, when Congress was getting ready to pass a stimulus bill that included $144 billion to help spendthrift states facing huge budget gaps, critics argued that states would be better off in the long run without the money. The...
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But What Kind of Infrastructure?
The federal record on transportation spending does not lend support to the idea of spurring the economy with another $50 billion over six years, explains Wendell Cox:
Obama and the Congress operate from a presumption that people "choose" to travel...
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Because the First $300 Billion Worked So Well ...
President Obama thinks another $50 billion in government spending on infrastructure (over six years) will get the economy rolling. But the government has already spent nearly $300 billion on stimulus over the past 18 months with zero impact on the...
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Liberty Calendar for College Students
A new resource for college students: The group Students for Liberty now features on its Web site a calendar of pro-liberty events for students. LibertyCal includes all sorts of events of interest to students, including movie screening, lectures, conferences, and...
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Can an Academic Bill of Rights Fix Higher Education?
Or at least make it better? David Horowitz makes the case:
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Events that Have Already Happened Are Not Insurable
Health insurance premiums are going to spike in the next year because of a particular provision of Obamacare, predicts John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis. Specifically he cites "the rule that health plans must offer coverage on...
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Does the <i>New Yorker</i> Even Know What Free Market Think Tanks Do?
Last week, a New Yorker article described David and Charles Koch's generous philanthropy toward free-market think tanks as a product of pro-corporate economic self-interest. But if that were really true, as Tim Carney points out, then they would not fund...
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That's Not a Human Right!
"Asian-American men suffer from stomach cancer 114 percent more often than non-Hispanic white men."
That's one piece of evidence supposedly demonstrating that the United States comes up short on securing human rights. That's the State Department's story anyway, as told to the...
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Obamacare Squeezes Students
Could college students not covered by their parents' insurance plans be forced into more expensive plans by Obamacare? Colleges and universities typically offer their students low-cost health plans designed to take advantage of a university's own health care system. And...
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I Want Your Money
We're looking forward to this film:
Jim Van Eerden, the producer of the film, told a group of bloggers at The Heritage Foundation today that he wants the film to help promote a national conversation about the importance of getting government...
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What Is Failure?
In his latest column, Richard Epstein observes:
The unemployment rate is higher now than it was when the stimulus program began. The secret of our success, evidently, is that the number of unemployed did not go higher still. By dumbing...
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Growing Hayek's Intellectual Heirs
The Austrian school of economics, which for decades has been doing intellectual war with the Keynesians and their pump priming prescriptions, is experiencing a revival these days. One of the key figures in that movement is George Mason University professor...
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Learn from Germany?
Germany's economic performance, as noted by David Brooks in his latest column, undermines the case for even more stimulus:
According to Gary Becker of the University of Chicago, the Americans borrowed an amount equal to 6 percent of G.D.P. in...
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New Issue of <i>The Insider</i> Out
The editor's note:
Among the startling facts about America's fiscal situation are these: Federal spending has grown 62 percent faster than inflation since 2000. President Obama's budget will double the publicly held national debt by 2020. Under current policies, by...
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The Problems All Started with <i>Wickard v. Philburn</i>
Obamacare supporters claim that the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution does indeed give Congress the power to force everyone to buy health insurance. If that's true then Congress really can do anything it wants and we do not...
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The Path We Are On
Since 1950, state and local spending has grown twice as fast as private sector spending, according to this chart from the Mercatus Center.
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Compare Maine and New Hampshire
"The nation doesn't have to wait for the Obama experiment to finish to learn the outcome," writes Amity Shlaes. In her latest column, she points out that the divergent paths of Maine and New Hampshire over the last 60 years...
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What's the Price, Again?
The Independent Institute will soon launch what looks like a really good tool for breaking down the cost of government into truly personal terms. MyGovCost.org (www.MyGovCost.org) is not live until August 31, but we took a sneak peak. The site...
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Treasury's Narrative Modification Program
The Treasury Department reported last week that nearly half of the 1.3 million homeowners who have enrolled in the Obama administration's mortgage relief program since 2009 have fallen out of the program. Yet, also last week, Treasury officials told a...
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