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By Randal O’Toole
Progressive blogger Matthew Yglesias says he is baffled by my previous post here about whether urban sprawl is the result of individual choice or government regulation. Ben Adler, a Newsweek blogger, weighs in as well.
You can read my detailed response to Yglesias on the Antiplanner blog. In a nutshell, Yglesias claims that my […]
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By Michael F. Cannon
In the Orange County Register, I explain how ObamaCare would stifle innovations in health insurance and medical delivery:
Economist Glen Whitman and physician Raymond Raad found that, when it comes to basic medical sciences, diagnostics (e.g., MRIs and CT scanners), and therapeutics (e.g., ACE inhibitors and statins), the United States often produces more […]
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By Michael F. Cannon
Or, whom would Jesus coerce? That’s the question that comes to mind when I read the Center for American Progress’ latest attempt to argue that, if Jesus were a member of Congress, He would vote for President Obama’s individual mandate.
I was raised Catholic, and I don’t remember Jesus teaching that we should […]
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By Michael F. Cannon
Of course, it depends on what the meaning of “the Obama health plan” is.
If the Obama plan is understood not to include the $208 billion Medicare “doc fix” that the House removed from its bill to pass separately, and if the Obama plan would be sealed in an impenetrable vault within the […]
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By Tad DeHaven
Over at Downsizing Government, we focused on the following issues this week:
Another day, another cost overrun at the Pentagon. This time it’s the Joint Strike Fighter.
Office of Personnel Management director John Berry has a hissy fit over Cato shining a light on excessive wages and benefits for government employees at a time when […]
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By Andrew J. Coulson
Brandon Dutcher of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs recently wrote a commentary for The Oklahoman featuring (in the print edition) a chart I created of percent change in the state’s ACT scores and per pupil revenues over time. (Hint: one line’s pretty flat, the other goes up lots.)
Some folks didn’t like what this […]
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Nice health care lecture
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