Obama Healthcare II Is Financial Lunacy
Even if the Obama administration is able to persuade (or bludgeon) enough Democrats into passing his latest version of healthcare, it would still be financial lunacy. ...
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Obama Healthcare by Hook or by Crook
According to the New York Times, President Obama has “his back to the wall” concerning the fate of his “signature initiative” and is doing everything in his power to...
TSA and the Fourth Amendment: Take another Look
When Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that Major General Robert Harding was President Obama’s latest nominee for the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), she said, “Mr. Harding has the...
Latest Unemployment Numbers: Shoveling Snow?
When the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced last Friday that the economy lost only 36,000 jobs in February, the usual choristers took that as good news. Christina Romer, the Chairwoman...
Financial Reform: Pressing On, Regardless
Last month, Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) pushed back against the Obama administration’s plans to create a “standalone” Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and some Washington-watchers held their breath to see...
U.S. Postal Service: Time to Free the Mail
When U.S. Postmaster General John Potter recommended eliminating Saturday delivery service in order to save money, he was merely responding to the postal service’s continuing inability to make money,...
2010 Census: Much More than Simple Enumeration
The Census Bureau is facing an uphill battle to obtain all the information being demanded in the short form arriving in the mail at every household in the country,...
The Economy Looks Like “L”
Just when the headline news about the economy was beginning to look good and the talking heads were beginning to sound good, along came a barrage of bad news...
For Goldman Sachs, the Greece Fleece Is Another Ripoff
When Goldman Sachs was implicated in helping Greece deceive the European Union and its own citizens about the extent of its debt and deficits, it was another stone in...
Toyota — The Jihad Continues
Now that the Department of Transportation is opening a formal investigation into the 2009-2010 Toyota Corolla over possible steering problems while the government is continuing with hearings by the...
“Mount Vernon Statement” — A Warning
The “Mount Vernon Statement” to be announced today at the start of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. is a “broad statement of principle aimed at giving...
Will the U.S. Be Able to Pay its Debts?
An Associated Press writer says “the crushing weight of its debt threatens to overwhelm everything the federal government does,” even under the best-case scenario. This theme of unsustainable debts...
Cellphones, Big Brother, & Fourth Amendment
The Obama Justice Department is appealing a lower court decision that requires it to provide “probable cause” before it can track cellphone users. The DOJ wants instead to operate...
Toyota Under Fire
The unrelenting attacks on Toyota are a metaphor for similar attacks on the free-market economy by its detractors. ...
China Reacts to U.S. Arms Sale to Taiwan
Last month’s decision by the United States to sell $6.4 billion worth of arms and military supplies to Taiwan “will not affect steadily improving ties between Taipei and Beijing,”...