By David Boaz Bart Hinkle makes some interesting observations in the Richmond Times-Dispatch about the unfortunate similarities between neoconservatives and progressives. Progressives, he says (and of course they’re not really for progress, so they might better be called left-liberals), spent the Bush years criticizing “bullying,” “heavy-handed meddling,” and even “neoconservative theories of social engineering.” They [...]
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By Jim Harper For more technical audiences, I wrote recently on the Tech Liberation Front blog about Google’s claim to favor “openness” when, in fact, its crown jewels—search and ad serving—are closed systems. Google is “free to be wrong about philosophy, of course,” I wrote. “It doesn’t matter at all—except when Google tries to impose [...]
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By Chris Edwards Roger Pilon touches on a crucial aspect of the most recent terrorist incident to strike the nation. Federal policymakers spend the vast majority of their time mucking around in properly state, local, and private activities, leaving them little time to spend on core federal issues such as defense and security. There is little hard data to [...]
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By Roger Pilon Today, Politico Arena asks: Flight 253: Do you agree with Janet Napolitano that “the system worked.” My response: But for a faulty detonator, NPR reports this morning, and the quick action of a Dutch passenger, nearly 300 people would have met a flaming death near Detroit on Christmas day. And homeland security [...]
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By Doug Bandow More demonstrations and more deaths in Tehran over the weekend. It’s a nasty situation and we should offer hopes and prayers for those fighting for a free Iran. Rouzbeh and Trita Parsi, with the European Institute for Security Studies and National Iranian American Council, respectively, speculate on how close Iran might be to [...]
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By Ilya Shapiro The point of our internship program is, of course, to spread the ideas of liberty in all the various realms of human endeavor these young people go on to pursue. Well, it seems that one former Cato intern has gotten himself hired as the policy director to a congressional candidate who’s talking [...]
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By Chris Edwards A reporter for the Canadian Financial Post posits: We’re largely familiar with Generation X and Generation Y. But perhaps it is time to brace for the emergence of another generation in the United States– Generation T, where T stands for tax. This group can be described as young Americans, maybe aged 16 [...]
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By Daniel J. Mitchell Andrew Sullivan posted the following chart, which he found in National Geographic, and he noted, with considerable justification, that this was evidence of an insane and inefficient health care system in America. The chart shows that America spends a lot more than other nations without a concomitant increase in life expectancy. [...]
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By David Boaz Three years ago a Washington Post editorial conceded: “Sometimes libertarians deserve to win an argument.” “Gee, thanks,” I wrote at the time. ”I’m glad libertarian arguments against over-regulation made sense to the editorial writer in this case. But I’m disappointed in the suggestion that this is a rare occasion.” After all, libertarians and Post [...]
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By Jim Harper Along with learning the factual details, it remains to be seen whether the effort by a Nigerian traveler to ignite some type of explosive on a U.S.-bound flight was an “attempted act of terrorism”—as it has been characterized by the White House—or a successful act of terrorism. Though it certainly helps, terrorism doesn’t [...]
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