By Sallie James
A group of 30 House Republicans, including a few members who ran as Tea Partiers according to this article by CQ, have sent a letter to the House Republican leadership calling for the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. (I’ve written here and here on why that’s a bad idea.) Their names are right there at the bottom, [...]
House Republicans—Including ‘Tea Partiers’—Support Ex-Im is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
This blogpost was co-authored by Cato legal associate Carl DeNigris. Before the argument on the Arizona immigration case yesterday, the Supreme Court scored a blow for American taxpayers by rejecting the IRS’s attempt to overturn the Court’s prior interpretation of a disputed provision of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. §6501(e)(1)(A). By avoiding the issue of whether [...]
Supreme Court Gives Taxpayers a Muddled Win is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Alex Nowrasteh
Michael Barone had an excellent piece in today’s Examiner where he wrote that the Mexican unauthorized immigration problem is going away because net Mexican migration is around zero for the first time since the Great Depression. Barone points out many reasons for this change: the size of the Mexican emigration cohort is remaining steady (Mexican [...]
Incentives for Unauthorized Immigration Remain is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Tad DeHaven
With the City of Detroit heading toward bankruptcy, The Hill reports that Mayor Dave Bing has signed a $330,000 contract with a Washington lobbying firm to help the city grab more money from federal taxpayers. At the same time, Rep. Hansen Clarke (D-MI) wants up to a $1 billion in “emergency aid” (i.e., bailout) for [...]
Detroit Doesn’t Need More Federal Money is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
For anyone suffering from post-Obamacare-argument Supreme Court withdrawal, this Wednesday the Court takes up Arizona’s controversial Senate Bill (“SB”) 1070. See my blogpost from when the Court granted review for some background. SB 1070 is much-misunderstood: it has nothing to do with sexy political issues like racial profiling and everything to do with boring legal ones like whether a given [...]
Immigration Laws at the Supreme Court: Constitutional but Bad Policy is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By David Boaz
Stories about the wealth of Washington, D.C., have become commonplace, but this Sunday front-page story in the Washington Post adds more details to the lifestyles of the rich and powerful: At the Collection at Chevy Chase, a $1,100 purple python pump gleams in the window of the Gucci store. Across Wisconsin Avenue at TTR Sotheby’s, [...]
Washington’s One Percent is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Michael F. Cannon
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Alan Blinder writes one of the most error-ridden and discourse-debasing op-eds I have ever read. About any topic. Ever. A sampling: [O]ur country was founded on the idea that the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable. Access to affordable health care is surely essential to two [...]
Alan Blinder Owes Me $5 for Wasting My Time is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Chris Edwards
I happened to hear some of the comments by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Washington today. The comments regarded the Secretary General’s “Sustainable Energy for All” initiative. It was a classic of bureaucratic speechmaking, as it was chock-full of the catch-phrases that are popular in internationalist circles. As a student of bureaucracy, I [...]
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By Walter Olson
Frank Harty of the Iowa law firm Nyemaster Goode describes a new kind of employer headache arising from the Obama administration’s hardline enforcement efforts on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) front: …Common sense dictates that any medication that carries with it a warning that it “may cause drowsiness” or that the patient should “use [...]
‘May Cause Drowsiness, Use Caution Around Machinery’ is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Juan Carlos Hidalgo
The most important development this week in Latin America is the decision of the Argentine government to seize control of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF), the country’s largest oil company. On Monday, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced the expropriation of the controlling stake of YPF that is owned by the Spanish company Repsol. The Spanish [...]
Argentina’s Point of No Return is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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