By Daniel J. Mitchell Even though politicians already have flushed $400 billion down the rathole, the Obama Administration has announced that it will now give unlimited amounts of our money to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-created mortgage companies. While President Obama should be castigated for this decision, let’s not forget [...]
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By Daniel J. Mitchell Here are a few stories to bring holiday cheer for taxpayers. First, we have an Associated Press report that several hundred thousand federal bureaucrats have serious tax delinquencies. The Department of Housing and Urban Development always ranks high on the list of government entities that should be abolished, so it’s interesting [...]
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By Tad DeHaven The White House is hinting that its fiscal year 2011 budget due out in February will be “austere.” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs didn’t provide any specifics but recently said that “it will not look as it has in the past.” Well that’s a relief because the FY2010 appropriations process finally [...]
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By David Boaz Today’s question at “Politico Arena“: “Is the filibuster good or bad for America?” My response: The United States is a republic, not a majoritarian democracy. The Founders were rightly afraid of majoritarian tyranny, and they wrote a Constitution designed to thwart it. Everything about the Constitution — enumerated powers, separation of powers, [...]
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By David Boaz Advocates of health care reform and other big government programs, this is the business you have chosen: Main Street has had a tough year, losing jobs and seeing little evidence of the economic revival that experts say has already begun. But K Street is raking it in. Washington’s influence industry is on [...]
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By Alan Reynolds PolitiFact.com gave Sarah Palin their “Lie of the Year” award for warning on August 7 that the Democrat’s idea of “cost containment” implied rationing by “death panels.” The self-described fact-checking web site of the St. Petersburg Times claimed Palin was criticizing a provision in the House bill under which “Medicare would pay for [...]
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By Roger Pilon Are law and politics separate realms? That’s the ideal. But Adam Liptak, Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times, raises questions today about whether it’s any longer the case. Drawing on a study published last month in The Vanderbilt Law Review and summarized in the autumn issue of The Green Bag, [...]
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By Daniel J. Mitchell Since Senators engaged in open extortion and bribery to enact Reid’s government-run health care plan, it is hardly newsworthy that Washington is riddled with corruption. But the magnitude of sleaze is probably far greater than most people realize. There is a new study from a couple of academics at the University [...]
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By Julian Sanchez By now, you’ve probably heard the story—and seen the video. During the weekend’s Snowpocalypse™ in DC, a gaggle of young urbanites, using Twitter and other social media, announced a big group snowball fight at the corner of 14th and U Streets. For a while, it was all good fun, with the participants [...]
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By David Boaz Ross Douthat at the New York Times, with help from Reihan Salam and Tim Carney, explains how the Senate health care bill can be both a government takeover and a huge subsidy to the insurance industry: We’ve achieved an unusual left-right convergence in the health care debate: Both conservatives and liberals are [...]
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