April 13, 2011

Ryan's Sweeping Tax Reform and the Left's Inane Response

Paul Ryan and the House Republicans' 2012 budget cuts 5.8 trillion in government spending over the next decade and reduces the federal debt by 4.4 trillion relative to the CBO baseline.  Tax reform is a key element of the Ryan proposal that has ...

July 31, 2010

Damn the Insurance Companies (Again)

Bloomberg.com ran an article on Wednesday of this week that has gained a lot of interest from the media and from around the country.  The heart wrenching story is that of Cindy Lohman who lived out every mother's worst nightmare; to bury a child...

July 19, 2010

I'm from the Government, and I'm Here for Your BMI

Imagine that it is the year 2014. You have just gotten home from a long day of work when you get a knock at the front door. "Mr. Smith?" a youngish, neatly dressed man with a clipboard and plastic, government-issued identification badge ask...

June 4, 2010

The 2010 Census and Our Fair Share

Earlier this week, an undercover journalist in New Jersey and one in Louisiana worked together to expose the embarrassingly erroneous method by which the Census Bureau pays its workers, thrusting the 2010 census into the headlines once again. Using h...

April 29, 2010

More Financial Reform, Less Financial Security

If you liked Obama's takeover of health care, then you'll love the even more convoluted and poorly-understood so-called financial "reform" bill being resisted by the GOP with daily filibuster votes.The financial reform legislation spearhead...

April 19, 2010

George Soros's New Economy

There has been much talk of the opaqueness of the recent financial crisis. How could such a crisis come to fruition without forewarning from the multitude of economists, Wall Street advisors, and media soothsayers?To address this troublesome question...

March 13, 2010

The Problem with Blaming Insurance Companies

Earlier this week, President Obama addressed a crowd of gushing students and selected guests at Arcadia University in a suburb of Philadelphia to promote his final push for health care reform. It was a beautiful day for late winter, magnifying the ga...

March 5, 2010

Lying About Bush's Tax Cuts

The majority of the taxpayers in our country believe it a foregone conclusion that taxes will rise substantially in the near future and that the Bush tax cuts will soon be no more than a footnote of political history. You don't need to be a genius to...

January 21, 2010

Conservatism Rising

In the wake of Scott Brown's historic Senate run, we would like to put the last eighteen months of politics into perspective and summarize what the Massachusetts race means for the future of conservatism. Despite what may be written in the Liberal pr...

December 23, 2009

Small Business Gets a Big Lump of Coal for Christmas

Starting with the small business jobs summit and proceeding to his small business tour, which kicked off at Home Depot...wait a second...the president and his administration have been playing obsequious court to the small business community over the ...

December 15, 2009

$2,000,000,000,000 More in Debt? You Bet.

I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government to the genuine principles of its constitution; I mean an additional article...

December 2, 2009

Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. -Milton FriedmanThe art of medicine requires the health care provider to make an accurate diagnosis in order to formulate an effective trea...

November 12, 2009

Behind the House Health Care Vote

Where was the American people's representation on health care reform in Washington on Saturday night? Or better, why did our representatives in Washington move so hastily to advance an inclusive health care reform bill that will permanently alter 1/6...

October 31, 2009

Charity and Sacrifice in a Free Society

"If men have grasped some faint glimmer of respect for individual rights in their private dealings with one another, then that glimmer vanishes when they turn to public issues -- and what leaps into the political arena is a caveman who can't con...

October 13, 2009

Individual Freedom vs. the Right to a Cell Phone

Europe seemed incapable of becoming the home of free states. It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their own business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of State -- ideas long locked in the breasts of...

September 15, 2009

Understanding the Cause of Health Care Inflation

"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts." - Adam SmithHealth care inflation is a topic that lends itself to considerable demagoguery and "straw men arguments" from the left, where it is often a...

September 10, 2009

Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Health Care?

Much has been made in the recent weeks and months about the French health care system, which was ranked first by the World Health Organization (WHO), as a model for US health care reform. The French system spends considerably more (11% of GDP) than t...

August 28, 2009

Obama's Road to Healthcare Serfdom

President Obama is desperate to pass sweeping healthcare reform and now has resorted to pure socialist rhetoric to encourage Americans to support his plan. In his Saturday radio and internet address, President Obama encouraged Americans to call upon ...

August 11, 2009

How to 'bend the curve down' in healthcare costs

After weeks of hearing Democratic lawmakers repeat the mantra that Obamacare would "bend the curve down" in healthcare spending over time, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) served them a cold glass of reality. A July 26th l...

August 6, 2009

The 2008/09 Housing Crisis and lessons learned forgotten

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. - Milton FriedmanBy now you have heard about the blinding success of the economy-saving program "Cash for Clunkers;" the awesomely com...

July 21, 2009

Recipe for Economic Stagnation

As political talking heads ponder the necessity for yet another stimulus package our domestic economy is wallowing with unemployment approaching 10%. Politicians on the left continue to embrace the last pork loaded stimulus bill claiming that while i...

July 9, 2009

In Search of an Intelligent Energy Policy

No responsible energy policy can go forward that is rooted in the belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions significantly contribute to global warming or "climate change" as it is now called. This article will address data from th...

July 2, 2009

We Could Cut Spending

In the June 30th WSJ Editorial entitled, "We'll Need to Raise Taxes Soon," Roger Altman, former deputy secretary of the Treasury in the first Clinton administration acknowledges the grim reality of the current fiscal situation. He argues th...

June 27, 2009

Socialized Healthcare is a Severe Threat to Individual Liberty

The doctrine of the safety net, to catch those who fall, has been made meaningless by the doctrine of fair shares for those of us who are quite able to stand. - The Economist The Declaration of Independence grants every individual the inalienable rig...

June 23, 2009

Healthcare Reform: A Looming Policy Disaster

Peter Orzag, the Obama administration's budget director, said in an interview with Wolf Blitzer (6/13/09) that "the key driver of our long-term debt is healthcare." Mr. Orzag couldn't have been more correct in this remark; however, he and t...

June 9, 2009

The 1% Myth and the Victimization of America

A common liberal argument aimed at America's free market economy and reinforced in President Obama's budget proposal A New Era of Responsibility is that, over the last 25 years, the rich have gotten richer while the poor have gotten poorer. While thi...

May 25, 2009

Revisiting Hayek

To many who have watched the transition from socialism to fascism at close quarters the connection between the two systems has become increasingly obvious, but in the (Western) democracies the majority of people still believe that socialism and freed...