CBOâs Long-Term Budget Outlook
By Tad DeHavenThe Congressional Budget Office released the latest edition of its annual forecast of where the federal governmentâs budget is headed. The numbers are new but the message is the same:...
View ArticleCBO Report Reveals Spending Disaster
By Chris EdwardsNew projections from the Congressional Budget Office show that without reforms rising federal spending will fundamental reshape Americaâs economy, and not in a good way. Under the...
View ArticleThe FDAâs New Report on Silicone Breast Implant Safety
Did you know that women who get silicone breast implants should “assume that you will need additional surgeries,” and should get follow-up MRIs every couple of years? Over at Our Bodies Our Blog, I...
View ArticleFederal Jobs Programs Donât Work
By Chris EdwardsIn a 1975 interview, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said, âOne of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their...
View ArticleThe War in Libya and Limited Government
By John SamplesAs Congress begins (perhaps!) to hold up its end of the invitation to struggle over the Libyan adventure, Chris Preble, Gene Healy and I have prepared a video explaining what’s at stake...
View ArticleTwo Votes on Libya
By John SamplesThe House of Representatives has taken two votes on the war in Libya. In the first, the House voted 295 to 123 against authorizing the war. 70 Democrats voted or 36 percent of the caucus...
View Article$1 Trillion in Phony Spending Cuts?
By Chris EdwardsIn the Washington Post Friday, Ezra Klein partly confirmed what I fear the Republican strategy is for the debt-limit billâget to the $2 trillion in cuts promised through accounting...
View ArticleShould the Government Ban ATMs and Create âSpoon-readyâ Projects?
By David BoazAt the Britannica Blog today I note President Obama’s concern over ATMs, Hillary Clinton’s support for the candlemakers’ petition, John Maynard Keynes’s simple solution to the problem of...
View ArticleBlock-Granting Medicaid Is a Long-Overdue Way of Restoring Federalism and...
By Daniel J. MitchellThis new video, based in large part on the good work of Michael Cannon, explains why Medicaid should be shifted to the states. As I note in the title of this post, itâs good...
View ArticleEpic Win for First Amendment in Violent Videogame Case
By Ilya ShapiroThe Supreme Court scored an epic win for the First Amendment in striking down Californiaâs prohibition on selling violent videogames to minors. The law was both overly broadâsweeping...
View ArticleRepublicans and the New York Marriage Law
By David BoazSince New York passed a law extending marriage to same-sex couples, Republican presidential candidates have been mostly silent. But not Rep. Michele Bachmann, who has had a long and strong...
View ArticleUnhappy (belated) Birthday National Minimum Wage
By Mark A. CalabriaI wasn’t in the mood Friday to celebrate the 73rd birthday of the federal minimum wage, created under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Looking at youth unemployment numbers...
View ArticleCourt Says Punishing Political Speech Violates First Amendment
By Ilya ShapiroWith its last opinion on the last day of the term, the Supreme Court brought things back to constitutional basics by striking down a state law that punished political speech. Whatever...
View ArticleBeware the Depends Bomber?
By Gene HealyMy Washington Examiner column this week is on TSA, the federal agency that’s its own reductio ad absurdum. In the latest TSA atrocity, the agency forced a wheelchair-bound, 95-year-old...
View ArticleFor ObamaCare, June Has Been a Very Cold Month
By Michael F. CannonThat’s the subject of my latest Kaiser Health News column: Obamacare passes two milestones this month. It has been exactly two years since the first version of the legislation...
View ArticleShould American Taxpayers Finance another Big Fat Greek Bailout?
By Daniel J. MitchellIt appears that American taxpayers are about to subsidize another Greek bailout (via the Keystone Cops at the IMF). This is way beyond economically foolish. It is also morally...
View ArticleRepublicans Getting Rich off ObamaCare
By Michael F. CannonHere we have the spectacle of a former Republican Health and Human Services secretary getting rich by helping states implement ObamaCare. Leavitt Partners (among other consultants)...
View ArticleAre Corporations People When They Make Video Games?
By Julian SanchezI note that I’m not hearing many critics of Citizens United decrying yesterday’s very welcome Supreme Court ruling, in which the majority held unconstitutional a California statute...
View ArticleSunlight Before Signing: Is President Obama Throwing It Under the Bus?
By Jim HarperPresident Obama went to Puerto Rico two weeks ago. If you missed it, that might be because the trip was so briefâa mere four hours. Observing how the president “SEAL-Team-Sixed” it, Jon...
View ArticleEconomic Freedom
By Caleb O. BrownSome smart folks have drawn strongly on the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World Annual Report to put together a short video extolling the virtues of economic freedom....
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