By Paul Theroux | Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 11:23 PM PDT | 4 Comments
President Obama is scheduled to be interviewed by Fox News’ Bret Baier on Wednesday. I would really love to seem him confronted with a few tough questions like these: Your administration has pointed to recent insurance premium rate increases in California to make the case for the health care bill. Many pieces of the...
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Tags: Budget and Tax Policy, Drugs, Economics, Government subsidies, Healthcare, Insurance, Media, Nationalization, Politics, Presidential Power, Regulation, Socialism, Taxation, Transparency, Welfare
By Robert Higgs | at 8:14 PM PDT | 53 Comments
A popular slogan of the Italian Fascists under Mussolini was, “Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato” (everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state). I recall this expression frequently as I observe the state’s far-reaching penetration of my own society. What of any consequence...
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Tags: Civil Society, Economics, Fascism, Germany, Law, Liberty, Personal Liberty, Politics, Property Rights, Regulation, Surveillance, The State, War
By Karen Kwiatkowski | at 5:18 PM PDT | 0 Comments
Drudge linked to news that C-SPAN is making their entire archives available online — this is good stuff, and kudos to Brian Lamb for his outstanding vision. On the other hand, Drudge is not linking or reporting articles about Michael Furlong, the Senior Executive Service guy who has been hiring contractors to go and...
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Tags: Media, Politics, Uncategorized