Friday, July 25th, 2008
From Reason.tv:
Paying $4 for a gallon of gas is a drag, but what may be worse is listening to White House wannabes who promise to rescue us from our misery.
Take Senator McCain’s recent proposal to offer a $300 million cash prize to the inventor of a car battery ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
The Denver Post printed the following letter of mine last week (on-line version):
Re: "Who has your health at heart?" May 22 guest commentary.
AFL-CIO executives John Sweeney and Mike Cerbo perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: that the free market is not working and that costs have been spiraling out ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
From George Will's Newsweek review of The Cult of the Presidency, by Gene Healy:
If you can name it, presidents are responsible for it. The name for this is infantilization. "The average American," said President Richard Nixon, "is just like the child in the family—you give him some responsibility and he ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
David Boaz of the Cato Institute points out that neither candidate for Life Coach of the United States (or is it Daddy, High Priest, or Santa Claus) has much respect for individualism. Rather the derive meaning from our own personal life goals and priorities, we can do so only with ...
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