Congressional Problem Creation: There Still is No Free Lunch
by Walter Williams
(May 14, 2008)
Americans are rightfully angry about higher energy and food prices but their anger should be directed toward the true villains -- the Congress and the White House.
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Are The Issues Too "Complex" For Voters? Part III
by Thomas Sowell
(May 14, 2008)
Politics is not economics, so politicians tend to respond to people's emotional reactions-- and if economic realities stand in the way, then so much the worse for economics.
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Are The Issues Too "Complex" For Voters? Part II
by Thomas Sowell
(May 13, 2008)
Supply and demand will never replace "need" and "greed" in political discussions of economic issues.
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Are The Issues Too "Complex" For Voters? Part I
by Thomas Sowell
(May 12, 2008)
With all the commotion in the media and in politics about the high price of gasoline, is there really some terribly complex explanation?
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Environmentalists' Wild Predictions
by Walter Williams
(May 7, 2008)
Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, let's look at some environmentalist predictions that they would prefer we forget.
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Random Events
by Thomas Sowell
(May 6, 2008)
Sometimes unrelated events nevertheless tell a coherent story.
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Free Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! From Antitrust Fascism
by Alex Epstein
(May 1, 2008)
A Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could not threaten competition. To the contrary, it would be an act of free competition, an ambitious attempt by two companies to improve their products by combining strengths.
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Objectivism, the Journal, and the Future: An Interview with Craig Biddle
by Mark Da Cunha
(May 1, 2008)
An Interview with Craig Biddle, Editor and Publisher of The Objective Standard, on Objectivism, the Journal, and the Future
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Before and After Hurricane Katrina: How Government Makes Disasters More Disastrous
by Thomas A. Bowden
(April 30, 2008)
In a free market--without tax-paid levees, government disaster relief, or subsidized insurance--anyone who contemplates building or buying property in a high-hazard area will need to face hard facts about the local history of natural disasters, the efficacy and cost of preventive measures, and the availability of insurance.
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Seven Simple Rules for Health Care Reform
by Richard E. Ralston
(April 30, 2008)
Seven simple changes that can be adopted now that require no new government expense, but that remove regulatory complexity and allow freedom of choice.
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John Hancock and Cigarette Smuggling
by Walter Williams
(April 30, 2008)
Some smugglers are good people who differ little from the founders of our nation such as John Hancock, whose flamboyant signature graces our Declaration of Independence.
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Obama: An Old Newness
by Thomas Sowell
(April 28, 2008)
Although Senator Obama has presented himself as the candidate of new things -- using the mantra of 'change' endlessly -- the cold fact is that virtually everything has says about domestic policy is straight out of the 1960s and virtually everything he says about foreign policy is straight out of the 1930s.
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The Economics of College, Part III
by Thomas Sowell
(April 23, 2008)
Why does college cost so much?
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Politics and Black Americans
by Walter Williams
(April 23, 2008)
The liberal Democratic agenda has done great harm to the poorest of the black community.
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The Economics of College, Part II
by Thomas Sowell
(April 22, 2008)
Should taxpayers be forced to subsidize people who go to college?
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