A coalition of more than 70 groups around the world, from Canada to Brazil to Kyrgyzstan to Germany to China to Japan to Kenya, has joined together to stop the dangerous stirrings of protectionism. The FreedomToTrade.org coalition (coordinated internationally by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the International Policy Network) has circulated a petition (signed [...]
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Truth may be a rare commodity in the halls of Congress, but at least now there’s a statue of the abolitionist and feminist Sojourner Truth.
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I offer some evidence in today’s Chicago Tribune: Last week, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter was one of the most liberal Republicans in the Senate. Today, he’s the most conservative Democrat…. But party-switchers often change their votes as well as their labels. The day after Republicans won control of the Senate in 1994, Sen. Richard Shelby [...]
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God hates the sin but loves the sinner, we are told. Americans have a similar attitude towards credit cards. They love the cards but hate the card issuers. Naturally, President Barack Obama has picked up on this sentiment and wants the credit card companies to be “fair.” Reports the Washington Post: The Obama administration yesterday [...]
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New articles, videos and Podcasts today: Ilya Shapiro asks the Supreme Court to review a medical law case with First Amendment issues in a new legal brief. Doug Bandow argues against economic retreat in East Asia. At National Review online, Edward Crane discusses Obama’s 100-day record. Also at National Review online, James Tooley tells the [...]
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William F. Buckley famously said that he’d ”rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.” That was, of course, a swipe at the practical wisdom of those people who spend their lives teaching in ivory towers, and a [...]
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Billions and billions of dollars! Get yours today! I’ve written before about the massive lobbying game in Washington to get your own special interests written into the stimulus and budget bills. And about the efforts to pressure governments into spending that money NOW. Today a friend sent me a new piece of the incredible expanding stimulus [...]
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A three-judge panel from the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled yesterday that the State Secrets Privilege, a doctrine barring the introduction of sensitive information as evidence, did not bar a suit by former CIA detainees. (H/T SCOTUSBlog) The plaintiffs allege that the defendant, a contract airline associated with the extraordinary rendition program, [...]
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When the Florida Legislature passed its education tax credit program in 2001, only one Democrat supported the measure. Last year, the legislature expanded the program with votes from one third of statehouse Democrats, half the black caucus and the entire Hispanic caucus. Last week, nearly half of House Democrats —47 percent—voted to significantly expand the [...]
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I am reliably informed that the rumor that I perpetuated to which I responded here is untrue: House Republicans will not be endorsing an individual mandate. Now let’s hope that Senate Republicans (and House Democrats, and Senate Democrats) show similar good sense.
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