Big Government

Here we are 138 years later with many people still believing in the economic virtues of subsidies from farm programs to energy development.

Thank goodness for congressional committees, and the committees’ subcommittees.

Emma Goldman, a young shopkeeper in 1892, was serving a customer in her ice cream parlor in Worcester, Mass., when she got the latest news about a

I find Iraq news painful to read so I was glad for this summary of the current sit

From 1950 to 1980, Americans were indeed Losing Ground. Charles Murray’s book on social policy debunks welfare programs. The programs are the problem. It is not possible to design a wealth transfer program that will not produce net harm.

The story of the debacle at Walter Reed that the Washington Post broke has generated commentary all over the place.

As reported and summarized here, a divided three-judge panel for the United Stat

I’ve noted before how many libertarians and Objectivists simply seem unable to appreciate the virtues of our federalist system; and that this

From Caroline Baum’s excellent opinion piece:

They imagine themselves to be the class of rulers, the aristocrats, the philosopher kings, the high clerics, the landowners, and to keep that power, they gladly fuel the basest of human instincts: nationalism, jingoism, and hate.