Commentary
Business & Economics
First, do no harm
Taking the temperature of the Colorado economy As we close out the year in one of the worst recessions in modern history, Congress and the Colorado Legislature will be looking to do something — whatever that is — because people want something done — whatever that might be. Before any ...
Commentary
Why Money Can’t Be the Answer for Obama’s New Education Secretary
For Secretary of Education, President-elect Barack Obama recently named Arne Duncan, whose seven-year record as head of Chicago schools includes some noteworthy improvements. Duncan now faces significant challenges that require deeper reforms than those he pursued in Chicago. Under Arne Duncan the graduation rate in Chicago schools rose from 47 ...
Commentary
An Emergency Review
This is an emergency book review. Before you do anything else, make a note to read “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care” by Sally C. Pipes. It might literally save your life, by checking the political stampede toward a government-controlled medical profession– usually presented politically as “universal health ...
Commentary
Consumer-Directed Health Care in Cuba (for Americans)
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year and a quarter since PRI hosted an event to discuss Michael Moore’s SiCKO, his “mockumentary” about the American health-care “system”. I’d kind of forgotten about the whole episode, but now that Mr. Moore’s team is going to be running the country, I ...
Commentary
Serious facts, please
. Louis Post-Dispatch (Saint Louis, MO), January 6, 2009 Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide The editorial “The 30 percent solution” (Dec. 30) claimed that “Americans spent more than $2.5 trillion on health care last year” while “46 million of us [went] without any health insurance. ...
Business & Economics
Why can’t I redistribute my own wealth?
So Barack Obama got elected president of the United States, allegedly the freest country in the world and in human history, partly on the promise that he will redistribute a goodly portion of our wealth, yours and mine and everyone else’s. But why on earth does that make him a ...
Business & Economics
The SEC Makes Wall Street More Fraudulent
The mainstream reaction to the Bernard Madoff scandal was inevitable. Whenever a government regulatory agency proves itself to be incredibly incompetent or corrupt, the respectable media swoop in to declare that the “free market” has failed and the agency in question obviously needs more money and power. Whether it’s the ...
Commentary
Foundations take active role on health policy
Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2009 Nonprofits have dropped their usual detachment to crusade for healthcare reform in California, opening Sacramento offices staffed by former aides to lawmakers. They have to be careful about IRS rules. Reporting from Sacramento — Frustrated that years of financing studies and demonstration projects have ...
Business & Economics
Western Standard’s “Liberty 100” Top 75 for 2008
To recognize the work of Canadians who have advanced economic and personal liberty in 2008, the Western Standard has produced “Liberty 100,” a list of the top 100 friends of liberty in Canada. You can find the Top 10 from the “Liberty 100” here. Ezra Levant was our #1 pick ...
Blackouts
How to Stamp Out Christmas
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On cue, California jumped into the yearly fray over why Christmas symbols and carols get banned from schools and other public places, when that well-known religious radical, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, ignited a controversy by pointedly calling the state’s official “holiday” tree its “Christmas” tree instead. Schwarzenegger is ...
First, do no harm
Taking the temperature of the Colorado economy As we close out the year in one of the worst recessions in modern history, Congress and the Colorado Legislature will be looking to do something — whatever that is — because people want something done — whatever that might be. Before any ...
Why Money Can’t Be the Answer for Obama’s New Education Secretary
For Secretary of Education, President-elect Barack Obama recently named Arne Duncan, whose seven-year record as head of Chicago schools includes some noteworthy improvements. Duncan now faces significant challenges that require deeper reforms than those he pursued in Chicago. Under Arne Duncan the graduation rate in Chicago schools rose from 47 ...
An Emergency Review
This is an emergency book review. Before you do anything else, make a note to read “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care” by Sally C. Pipes. It might literally save your life, by checking the political stampede toward a government-controlled medical profession– usually presented politically as “universal health ...
Consumer-Directed Health Care in Cuba (for Americans)
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year and a quarter since PRI hosted an event to discuss Michael Moore’s SiCKO, his “mockumentary” about the American health-care “system”. I’d kind of forgotten about the whole episode, but now that Mr. Moore’s team is going to be running the country, I ...
Serious facts, please
. Louis Post-Dispatch (Saint Louis, MO), January 6, 2009 Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide The editorial “The 30 percent solution” (Dec. 30) claimed that “Americans spent more than $2.5 trillion on health care last year” while “46 million of us [went] without any health insurance. ...
Why can’t I redistribute my own wealth?
So Barack Obama got elected president of the United States, allegedly the freest country in the world and in human history, partly on the promise that he will redistribute a goodly portion of our wealth, yours and mine and everyone else’s. But why on earth does that make him a ...
The SEC Makes Wall Street More Fraudulent
The mainstream reaction to the Bernard Madoff scandal was inevitable. Whenever a government regulatory agency proves itself to be incredibly incompetent or corrupt, the respectable media swoop in to declare that the “free market” has failed and the agency in question obviously needs more money and power. Whether it’s the ...
Foundations take active role on health policy
Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2009 Nonprofits have dropped their usual detachment to crusade for healthcare reform in California, opening Sacramento offices staffed by former aides to lawmakers. They have to be careful about IRS rules. Reporting from Sacramento — Frustrated that years of financing studies and demonstration projects have ...
Western Standard’s “Liberty 100” Top 75 for 2008
To recognize the work of Canadians who have advanced economic and personal liberty in 2008, the Western Standard has produced “Liberty 100,” a list of the top 100 friends of liberty in Canada. You can find the Top 10 from the “Liberty 100” here. Ezra Levant was our #1 pick ...
How to Stamp Out Christmas
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On cue, California jumped into the yearly fray over why Christmas symbols and carols get banned from schools and other public places, when that well-known religious radical, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, ignited a controversy by pointedly calling the state’s official “holiday” tree its “Christmas” tree instead. Schwarzenegger is ...
