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Brian Garst
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February 11, 2025
Trump FTC Must Stop Biden’s Prescription Drug MadnessJoe Biden has left the White House, as have his inflationary policies. Unfortunately, the consequences from his administration’s blame dodging for the high cost of everything remain dangerously intact. One of Biden’s many scapegoats we...
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April 29, 2017
Governors weigh in against Adelson’s gaming banIn a town where partisan divide is as large as the Grand Canyon, it took a Las Vegas billionaire to bring together members of both political parties – just not in the way he hoped. Since New Jersey and a handful of other states legalized onl...
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February 15, 2017
The free market is the solution for upgrading airport infrastructureDuring the presidential campaign, Donald Trump compared domestic airports unfavorably to those found overseas, going so far as to say that American airports "are, like, from a third-world country." While that's a bit of an ex...
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December 6, 2010
The Keynesian Stimulus Fallacy Refuses to Go AwayThey say that doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results is the definition of insanity. If that is the case, then Keynesian politicians are completely bonkers. Given the disappointing nature of the recent employment nu...
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October 18, 2010
How to balance the budget in a decade without raising taxesThe figures are in, and the federal deficit for fiscal year 2010 is $1,294,000,000,000. Although slightly lower than last year's record shattering amount, the picture for America's fiscal future still appears bleak. At least, it is if you count on p...
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July 10, 2009
Protecting Their Own: The International Community Sides With ZelayaLiberal institutionalism is a branch of international relations theory which holds international organizations in high regard. Liberal institutionalists believe that such organizations can promote peace by fostering cooperation between states. Hondur...
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July 2, 2009
Captive capitalistsNo one should really be surprised by Wal-Mart's recent declaration of support for a government health insurance mandate. History provides a long list of examples where individual businesses have jumped at the opportunity to use the power of gov...
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June 19, 2009
Government Won't Allow Fair CompetitionProponents of socialized medicine learned an important lesson from the 1993 failure of Clinton Care, and recognize that they must hide their agenda in the rhetoric of market competition. Government is not going to take over insurance, they say; it me...
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June 6, 2009
Sotomayor and the Ugliness of Identity PoliticsThe calculated nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court is the latest example of the rejection of the idea of a color-blind society. Martin Luther King dared to dream of a future when his four children could "one day live i...