Big Government

At last, the chief executive must deal with regulations that daily vex the private sector. 

Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal is excited. The leftist columnist believes that he has found a wonderful "Third Way" example of using government to help poor people without the whole thing becoming yet another socialist giveaway. However, as with most government schemes that Hunt and his statist media colleagues like to tout, the latest example of "social entrepreneurship" is simply another fraud at worst and a misuse of resources at best.

Fifty years ago, the court broke the movie industry into two parts. The result was disastrous for consumers.

Some recent court decisions strengthen private property rights. But they do not go far enough.  

The idea of vouchers sounds good, but it has too many inherent flaws, like Oskar Lange’s "market socialism."

To keep the regulators at bay, high technology executives are beginning to feel that they had better pay homage to the powers-that-be. This is sheer waste. 

A plan to increase government control over who can practice medicine and how.

My first thought upon gazing upon this site (Mt. Rushmore) was why anyone would mar perfectly good granite with the faces of Roosevelt and Lincoln. Although Washington and Jefferson committed their own grievous errors while serving as chief executive of the central government, their sins were nothing next to those executed by Theodore Roosevelt and Dishonest Abe.

It's not all it's cracked up to be. Freedom is the only way out of the current mess, says Andei Kreptul. 

The Cold War was and is hugely expensive. The full economic cost of any policy must be considered before lending moral and financial support to it, argues Chris Westley.