Speech given by Lance Izumi:

Thank you so much. It is a great pleasure for me to be here today. Before beginning my remarks, let me first thank the Atlas Foundation for inviting to their conference and for organizing this distinguished panel.

The Cato Institute’s Michael Cannon’s been racking up frequent-flier miles.

He’s dropped in on more than a dozen states to make the case to lawmakers that they should not lift one legislative finger to implement President Barack Obama’s health reform.

In stereotypical Sacramento backroom fashion, Governor Jerry Brown and the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) cut a deal on a November initiative to raise taxes.

Leave it to our leaders in Washington to spend a dollar to save a dime.

Congress just announced that a $77-million computer system put in place last summer to combat Medicare fraud had saved taxpayers $7,591 through the end of the year.